Conference Schedule

Second Tularosa Basin Conference: THE LAND OF ENCHANTMENT
THROUGH TIME AND SPACE

CONFERENCE SCHEDULE:
Thursday May 13th
5:30 - 8:00 pm Meet and Greet at Casa de Suenos (Tularosa) for EARLY
REGISTRATION, Refreshments, Casual Conversation, and Dinner
for those who wish.

Friday May 14th
8:00 am REGISTRATION at the Tays Special Events Center, NMSUAlamogordo
(off Scenic Drive north of Indian Wells)
9:00-9:10 am WELCOME, INTRODUCTION AND MISSION: Conference
Chairman, David Greenwald

Session 1: DEFENSE SYSTEMS AND PROGRAMS DURING THE COLD
WAR ERA: Session Chair: Richard Wessel, New Mexico Department
of Transportation, Santa Fe, New Mexico
9:15-9:40 am DEITIES AND NON-COMS: THE EARLIEST MISSILE
PROGRAMS AT WHITE SANDS PROVING GROUNDS by:
Peter L. Eidenbach, New Mexico State University, Alamogordo, and
Four Corners Research, Tularosa, New Mexico.
9:40-10:05 am PREPARING TO SURVIVE: THE SAFEGUARD MISSILE
TRAINING SITE AT FORT BLISS by: Marsha Prior, Ph.D., Geo-
Marine, Inc., Plano, Texas
10:05-10:30 am HOLLOMAN AIR FORCE BASE IN THE TULAROSA BASIN
by: Wayne O. Mattson, New Mexico Museum of Space History,
Alamogordo, New Mexico

Break: 10:30-10:50 am
10:50-11:15 am HOLLOMAN AIR FORCE BASE COLD-WAR BUILDINGS by:
Andrew R. Gomolak, Holloman Air Force Base, New Mexico
11:15-11:40 am SENSING THE BASIN: INSTRUMENTATION SYSTEMS OF
THE COLD WAR MONITORING THE TULAROSA BASIN by:
Richard L. Wessel, New Mexico Department of Transportation, Santa
Fe, New Mexico

Lunch: 11:45 am-1:30 pm

Session 2: LINGUISTS AND PHYSICAL ANTHROPOLOGY: Session
Chair: Peter L. Eidenbach, New Mexico State University, Alamogordo
1:30-1:55 pm ANIMAL COMMUNICATION AND LANGUAGE by: Megan
Dickens, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, New Mexico
1:55-2:20 pm PRELIMINARY LABORATORY ANALYSIS OF
PREHISTORIC HUMAN REMAINS RECOVERED FROM THE
THREE RIVERS SITES (LA 4291), OTERO COUNTY, NEW
MEXICO by: Jacqueline R. Flynn and David L. Carmichael,
Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Univesity of Texas at El
Paso

Break: 2:20-2:45 pm

Session 3: PALEONTOLOGY AND GEOMORPHOLOGY WITHIN THE
TULAROSA BASIN: Session Chair: David W. Love, New
Mexico Bureau of Mines and Mineral Resources, New Mexico
Institute of Mining and Technology, Socorro, New Mexico
2:45-3:10 pm CONTEXT OF LATE PLEISTOCENE AND HOLOCENE
RADIOCARBON AGES, PROBOSCIDEAN, HORSE, AND
CAMEL REMAINS, AND UNCOMMON SURFICIAL
GEOLOGICAL FEATURES, NORTHERN TULAROSA BASIN,
SOUTH CENTRAL NEW MEXICO by : David W. Love, New
Mexico Bureau of Mines and Mineral Resources, New Mexico
Institute of Mining and Technology, Socorro, New Mexico; Bruce D.
Allen, New Mexico Bureau of Mines and Mineral Resources, New
Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, Socorro, New Mexico; G.
S. Morgan, New Mexico Museum of Natural History, Albuquerque,
New Mexico; and Robert G. Myers; U.S. Army, IMWE-WSM-PW-EES,
White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico
3:10-3:35 pm ALLUVIAL FAN DEPOSITION DURING THE LATE
PLEISTOCENE AND HOLOCENE ALONG THE EASTERN
MARGINS OF THE TULAROSA BASIN by: Daniel J. Koning,
New Mexico Bureau of Geology and Mineral Resources, New Mexico
Institute of Mining and Technology, Socorro, New Mexico
3:35-4:00 pm RAPID ALLUVIATION ON THE ALAMOGORDO AND
MARBLE CANYON ALLUVIAL FANS DURING THE LATE
HOLOCENE by: Samantha Krause, Four Corners Research, Tularosa,
New Mexico

4:00-5:00 pm POSTER SESSIONS:
NIKE-HERCULES FACILITY, NEW MEXICO NATIONAL
GUARD HISTORIC STRUCTURES PROJECT, ROSWELL by:
Peggy Gerow, Office of Contract Archaeology, University of New
Mexico
MADERO QUEMADA PUEBLO by: Michael Stowe, Geo-Marine,
Inc. El Paso, Texas
6:00-8:30 pm KEYNOTE DINNER with Tom Merlan at the Tularosa Community
Center, 1050 Bookout Road, Tularosa.

Saturday May 15th
8:00-9:00 am REGISTRATION at the Tays Special Events Center, NMSUAlamogordo
(off Scenic Drive south of Indian Wells)

Session 4: ARCHAEOLOGICAL RESEARCH FROM THE TULAROSA
BASIN: Session Chair: David H. Greenwald, Four Corners Research,
Tularosa, New Mexico
9:00-9:25 am DETAILS OF PITHOUSE ABANDONMENT AT THE THREE
RIVERS SITE (LA 4291), OTERO COUNTY, NEW MEXICO by:
David Carmichael, Department of Sociology & Anthropology, UTEP
9:25-9:50 am RITUAL DEPOSITS AND TERMINATION: THE EVIDENCE
FROM QUAIL RUN by Mark “Haughk” Sale, Zia Engineering and
Environmental, Las Cruces, New Mexico

Break: 9:50-10:15 am
10:15-10:40 am PUEBLO SPIRITUALITY IN THE JORNADA MOGOLLON by:
David Lagare, Bureau of Land Management, Las Cruces Field Office,
Las Cruces, New Mexico
10:40-11:05 am MIDDLE ARCHAIC LAND USE AND SETTLEMENT IN
MANEUVER AREA 3A, FORT BLISS, NEW MEXICO by: Jesse
Clark, TRC Environmental, El Paso, Texas
11:05-11:30 am HIGH ROLLS CAVE by: Steve Lentz, Museum of New Mexico,
Office of Archaeological Studies, Santa Fe, New Mexico

Lunch: 11:45 am-1:30 pm
Session 5: DOCUMENTING HISTORIC RESOURCES THROUGH FIELD
STUDIES, ARCHIVAL RESEARCH AND ARTIFACTS
ANALYSIS: Session Chair: Dr. Neal W. Ackerly, Dos Rios
Consultants, Inc., Silver City, New Mexico (session followed by
exhibits of cartridges and discussion)
1:30-1:55 pm BACK-TRACKING WAGON TRACKS: THE LAS CRUCES TO
TULAROSA WAGON ROAD by: Dr. Neal W. Ackerly, Dos Rios
Consultants, Inc., Silver City, New Mexico; Jeremy T. Davis, Four
Corners Research, Tularosa, New Mexico, and Peter M. Christian,
R.C. Goodwin and Associates, New Orleans, Louisiana
1:55-2:20 pm EVALUATING HISTORIC RANCHING SITES ON OTERO
MESA: FOUR CASE STUDIES by: Kurt Korfmacker, Ecological
Communications Corp., Austin, Texas
2:20-2:45 pm ROLAND DRUG STORE AND PHARMACIES IN OTERO
COUNTY by: Bill Lockhart, New Mexico State University —
Alamogordo

Break: 2:45-3:00 pm
3:00-3:25 pm BLOCK 50 – A STUDY IN THE EFFECT OF LIQOUR
CONTROL ON TOWN PLANNING by: Dr. David H. Townsend,
Tularosa Basin Historical Society, Alamogordo, New Mexico
3:25-3:50 pm SELECTED ITEMS FROM A PERSONAL ARCHIVE,
TULAROSA BASIN, NEW MEXICO by: Robert G. Myers, Las
Cruces, New Mexico
3:50-4:15 pm EVIDENCE OF HISTORIC CARTRIDGE SALVAGE AND
MODIFICATION ACTIVITIES: A CASE STUDY FROM SITE
LA 146441 ALONG THE RIO TULAROSA by: Timothy J.
Schoonover, Four Corners Research, Tularosa, New Mexico; Gary L.
Stallings, United Country Real Estate, Tularosa, New Mexico; David
H. Greenwald, Four Corners Research, Tularosa, New Mexico
4:15-5:00 pm CARTRIDGE DISPLAYS AND DISCUSSIONS: (Collections
courtesy of Neal Ackerly and Gary Stallings in rear of auditorium)

5:00 pm CLOSING COMMENTS: Pete Eidenbach and David Greenwald

Sunday May 16th
Tours and Field Trips: Sign up at the registration desk for the tour you wish to attend.
Bring water, a hat, sun screen, and a snack.
Tour 1: Self-guided tour of the TULAROSAL HISTORIC DISTRICT and
its National Register-listed properties. Tours can be taken at any
time. Maps of Tularosa with brief descriptions of the listed properties
are included in each conference packet.
Tour 2: THREE RIVERS PETROGLYPHS: (to be developed)
Tour 3: RIO TULAROSA DITCHES AND RUINS: Meet at the Tularosa
Community Center at 9:30 am, where Dave Greenwald will escort you
to Four Corners Research. The tour will require hiking approximately
3 to 3.5 miles round-trip. We will cross the Rio Tularosa twice, so
anticipate getting your feet wet. The hike to the water fall and back
along the acequias is rated moderate (some up and downs, mostly
along and existing roadways and trails).

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Sponsored by:

Four Corners Research
New Mexico State Universtity - Alamogordo