EMAP Flying Fish – LA37767 Unit 100 (East Room), 1998

The Site LA 37767 was excavated through two seasons in the summers of 1998 and 2001 by the ASU Eastern Mimbres Archaeological Project (EMAP) Field School. The goal of this project was to collect data from Mimbres Classic Period habitation rooms in order to examine the occupational and abandonment history of such site in the Eastern Mimbres area. This report summarizes the results of the excavation conducted in the east room of Unit 100 in 2001. LA 37767 is located on a basalt piedmont above the floodplain of the Arroyo Seco, a perennial stream that drains a portion of the Black Range in southwest New Mexico into the Rio Grande to the east. The site consists of multiple roomblocks; there are at least three room blocks and two or three isolated rooms spread E-W across the terrace. Research from the 1998 field season revealed that these roomblocks were occupied in multiple time periods, as evidenced by lower and upper pueblo occupations.LA 37767遗址于1998年、2001年夏季分两个发掘季度，由亚利桑那州立大学东明布雷斯考古项目（ASU Eastern Mimbres Archaeological Project, EMAP）野外实习队完成发掘。本项目的研究目标为从明布雷斯古典期（Mimbres Classic Period）居住用房址中采集数据，以探析东明布雷斯地区该类遗址的居住史与废弃历程。本报告总结了2001年对100号单元东侧房址的发掘成果。LA 37767遗址坐落于塞科冲沟（Arroyo Seco）洪泛区上方的玄武岩山麓缓坡地带；塞科冲沟为常年性溪流，其流域覆盖新墨西哥州西南部布莱克岭（Black Range）的部分区域，最终向东注入格兰德河（Rio Grande）。该遗址包含多处房址群，至少存在3个房址群与2至3处孤立房址，沿东西向（E-W）分布于阶地之上。1998年野外发掘季的研究结果显示，这些房址群在多个时期均有人类居住，上下层普韦布洛（pueblo）遗存即为该结论的佐证。