EMAP Pague Well - LA130191 Unit 20, 2002

Site LA130191, Pague Well Village, was excavated in the summers of 2000, 2001, and 2002 by the ASU Eastern Mimbres Archaeological Project (EMAP). The goal of this project is to collect data from Mimbres Classic Period habitation rooms to illuminate the occupational and abandonment history of such sites in the Eastern Mimbres area. EMAP is under the direction of Dr. Margaret Nelson and Dr. Michelle Hegmon and in the summer of 2002 was conducted as an archaeological field school. The following report provides a summary of excavations in Unit 20, a room located near the center of the site in Roomblock B, a six room roomblock and one of at least six roomblocks on the site. Unit 20 was partially excavated in 2000 (Locus 1) as a test excavation of Pague Well Village and the unit's excavation was completed (Locus 2) in 2002. LA130191 is located on a low first terrace above the floodplain of the Seco drainage, a locally perennial stream which drains a portion of the Black Range of southwest New Mexico into the Rio Grande to the east.