MEDIO PERIOD SITES IN THE SANTA MARÍA VALLEY OF WEST-CENTRAL CHIHUAHUA, MEXICO by Jane Holden Kelley with contributions by Charles Knight A. C. MacWilliams Loy Neff Maxwell Museum Technical Series No. 24 Maxwell Museum of Anthropology MSC01, 1050, 1 University of New Mexico Albuquerque, New Mexico 87131-0001 www.unm.edu/~maxwell 2015 TABLE OF CONTENTS Page List of Figures................................................................................................................................. iv List of Tables.................................................................................................................................. iv Acknowledgments............................................................................................................................v 1. INTRODUCTION....................................................................................................................... 1 2. LA RASPADURA....................................................................................................................... 5 Survey of the Arroyo Raspadura..........................................................................................8 The 1990 Field Season....................................................................................................... 10 Collecting Areas (CAs).......................................................................................... 11 The 1991 Field Season....................................................................................................... 13 Surface Collection, Mound 1................................................................................. 13 Outside Wall of Mound 1...................................................................................... 13 Test 1...................................................................................................................... 13 Test 2...................................................................................................................... 13 Test 3...................................................................................................................... 15 Test 4...................................................................................................................... 15 Tests 6 and 9.......................................................................................................... 16 Discussion: Tests 1, 3, 4, 6, and 9.......................................................................... 16 T-shaped Room...................................................................................................... 16 Test 8...................................................................................................................... 20 Test 13.................................................................................................................... 20 Pottery................................................................................................................................ 20 Other Artifacts................................................................................................................... 24 Stone...................................................................................................................... 24 Shell....................................................................................................................... 25 Metal?.................................................................................................................... 25 Botanical Remains............................................................................................................. 25 Radiocarbon Dates............................................................................................................. 26 Discussion.......................................................................................................................... 26 3. THE PIG SITE........................................................................................................................... 29 TT1..................................................................................................................................... 31 TT2..................................................................................................................................... 32 Room Block....................................................................................................................... 33 Artifacts..............................................................................................................................34 Radiocarbon Dates............................................................................................................. 34 iii TABLE OF CONTENTS, continued Page 4. THE BUENAVISTA SITE........................................................................................................ 35 Tests 1 and 3...................................................................................................................... 36 Tests 2 and 4...................................................................................................................... 37 Shallow Trenching............................................................................................................. 38 Pottery................................................................................................................................ 38 Other Artifacts................................................................................................................... 38 Botanical Remains............................................................................................................. 40 Radiocarbon Dates............................................................................................................. 40 5. THE PICACHO SITE................................................................................................................ 41 The 1992 Tests................................................................................................................... 43 TT-1 in Structure 2.................................................................................................43 TT-2 in Structure 1.................................................................................................44 Rock Alignment Tests in Structure 3..................................................................... 46 TT-3....................................................................................................................... 47 The 1996 Excavations........................................................................................................ 48 Room 1................................................................................................................... 50 Room 4................................................................................................................... 51 Room 5................................................................................................................... 52 Room 6................................................................................................................... 53 Room 7................................................................................................................... 53 The Long Trench....................................................................................................53 Pottery................................................................................................................................ 55 Other Artifacts................................................................................................................... 57 Faunal Remains.................................................................................................................. 60 Human Remains................................................................................................................. 60 Radiocarbon Dates............................................................................................................. 60 Discussion.......................................................................................................................... 60 6. OTHER SITES...........................................................................................................................63 The Fresno Boulder............................................................................................................63 The Alarcón Site................................................................................................................ 66 Ch-228................................................................................................................................68 Ch-229................................................................................................................................68 Ch-253 A and B................................................................................................................. 68 The Palacios Site................................................................................................................ 69 Ch-258................................................................................................................................72 Ch-265................................................................................................................................72 The San Blas Sites............................................................................................................