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Stephen Nash 14 May 1999 |
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Frisco Pueblo is a small pueblo consisting of at least two rooms. It is located in west central New Mexico and was excavated by Martin's crew in 1955 (Figure 1). Additional details are not available. |
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Figure 1: Map showing the location of Frisco Pueblo  |
Artifacts The Museum curates 38 sherds from two separate locations at Frisco Pueblo: Room 1 Fill (31 sherds) and Room 2 Trench or Fill (7 sherds). This suggests that at least two rooms in the pueblo were excavated. We have no sherds from the "Trench 1" locality listed on the sherd tabulation sheet, though these may be mixed in with the Room 1 Fill sherds. Only 29% of (38 of 132) sherds were saved from Frisco Pueblo. One assumes these were deemed a representative sample. The excavations at Frisco Pueblo were never published. Excavation Records Archives Box SW 9 contains one sherd tabulation sheet for Frisco Pueblo. It identifies, by type, 60 sherds from Trench 1, 40 sherds from Room 1 Fill, and 32 sherds from Room 2 Fill, for a total of 132 sherds. Of these, most are Alma Plain (55) and Alma Rough (40), followed by Reserve Indented Corrugated (15) and other types with fewer than ten sherds apiece. Photographic Records There are no photographic records of Frisco Pueblo present in the Museum archives. Accession and Catalog Files Artifacts from Frisco Pueblo were not accessioned nor catalogued prior to the Martin Project. Catalog numbers assigned by the Martin Project are 319556 and 319680 for sherds from "Room 1 Fill" and "Room 2 Trench or Fill" respectively. Prospects The limited collection from this site can only be utilized for petrographic, typological, or technological sherd analysis, and is limited by the small sample size. If one trusts the classification by Museum staff in the 1950s, the pueblo can be placed in time with some degree of certainty. It is not clear whether any component of the site remains for examination today. |
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