Exploring the Edge, March 1–2

Preservation Archaeology Blog

By Lewis Borck, Preservation Archaeology Fellow

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Preparations for Edge of Salado research (click on that link to learn more) have been underway for the past month:

Visiting Sites — Visiting sites in the Coyote Mountains and the Sulphur Springs Valley with Bill Doelle to prepare for the excavation crews.

Collecting Sand Samples — Ceramic provenance and technology expert Mary Ownby collected samples of various sands from washes in the region to help us determine where ceramics were being produced.

Excavations began two weekends ago in the Sulphur Springs Valley:

Sulphur Springs Excavations — Photo by Leslie Aragon. Click to enlarge.

Sulphur Springs Valley Excavations — Photo by Bruce Hilpert. Click to enlarge.

And we often had company!

Scorpion in a Shovel — Photo by Bruce Hilpert.

We continued this past weekend in the Coyote Mountains at a platform mound–compound community.

Preservation Fellow Lewis Borck leads our fieldwork and a team of volunteers. You can follow along at lsborck on Instagram, @LewisBorck on Twitter, and at Archaeology Southwest’s Facebook page.

Adobe Wall in the Coyote Mountains — Note the two linear arrangement of rocks forming a corner, which is the footing for an adobe wall that has eroded away. Photo by Steve Cox.

Coyote Mountains Set up — Setting up in the morning for the day’s work. Photo by Steve Cox.

Screening in the Coyote Mountains — Working the screens and beginning excavations. Photo by Steve Cox.

Lunch in the Coyote Mountains — Lunches are a community affair and usually involve decent food, dirty fingers, and great people. This weekend, someone even brought homemade brownies. Photo by Steve Cox.

Finishing a Unit — Checking the last level prior to closing the unit because it became sterile (there was no more cultural material in it). Photo by Steve Cox.

3 thoughts on “Exploring the Edge, March 1–2”

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Chris Roberts says:

March 10, 2014 at 6:33 pm

Hope your time has paid off for everyone. Looking forward to reading about the findings.
phil smith says:

March 11, 2014 at 9:22 am

my small dig in dripping springs between winkelman and globe may be of small use for your research…should be under “The Artifact” UTEP, philip smith….Salado sites in the Dripping Springs valley…now OP. pgs

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