EMAP Flying Fish – LA37767 Unit 30, 1998

Site LA37767 was excavated in the summer of 1998 by the ASU Eastern Mimbres Archaeological Project Field School. The goal of this project was to collect data from Mimbres Classic Period habitation rooms to illuminate the occupational and abandonment history of such sites in the Eastern Mimbres area. LA37767 is a multiple roomblock site, with at least three roomblocks and two or three isolated rooms. It is located on a basalt piedmont above the floodplain of the Arroyo Seco. This is a locally perennial stream, draining a portion of the Black Range of southwest New Mexico into the Rio Grande to the east. Roomblock 30, the second. easternmost roomblock at the site, consists of approximately 10 to 12 rooms, including Units 30, 31, and 32. Wall fall visible on the surface suggests the existence of about seven to nine rooms in addition to the three selected for excavation. Located along the terrace edge, Roomblock 30 is the largest roomblock at the site. Its basic layout consists of a linear group of rooms on the northern edge of the terrace, and a larger block of rooms to the south, with a line of rooms or a linear rock feature connecting the two. The southernmost end of the roomblock contains some evidence for potting, but the remainder of the roomblock appears undisturbed on the surface.