An Archaeological Survey of the Galisteo Dam and Reservoir Area Santa Fe County, New Mexico.

The survey covered lands adjacent to Galisteo Creek, in an area of alluvial terraces juniper-dotted shale ridges, and rolling grasslands. Heavily disturbed areas were not studied, leaving somewhat over 1550 acres which were intensively surveyed. Thirty-seven new sites and 149 isolated artifact loci were located, and five previously known sites were revisited and re-recorded. In addition, an area surveyed in 1976 was revisited; 15 sites were relocated and re-recorded; six new sites were located, and 46 new isolated finds were located. Identification of site function was often tentative, but sites papear to include lithic procurement and reduction loci, hunting-related sites, possible wild seed processing sites, farming campsites, field houses, transient activity loci (such as pot breaks), and campsites. (The only permanent habitation site was destroyed during dam construction). Of special note are two zones in which agricultural (?) check dams were found, It appears that aboriginal use of the area was heaviest during Late Archaic and early Pueblo IV (Glaze A) times. Historic remains from the Hispanic period were scarce; the single known Hispanic habitation site was destroyed during dam related to mining, ranching (?), an old powerline, and an old section of the ATFS railroad.