OCA crews have performed archeological surveys and excavations at various military installations.

United States and New Mexico Military Installations

OCA projects at United States military installations often involve surveys to accommodate ground clearance for military training exercises and development, for example, surveys at Camp Luna in Las Vegas, New Mexico, at Camel Tracks Training Area on La Bajada Mesa, as well as the surveys of the Black Mountain near Deming, the Happy Valley Training Site near Carlsbad, and the WETS Area near Roswell. All these projects were conducted for the New Mexico Army National Guard. In addition to this work, OCA has performed an extensive overview of the historic structures at New Mexico Army National Guard installations.

This work resulted into the following published volumes:

Peggy A. Gerow and William H. Doleman (2002): Across the Caja del Rio Plateau: Hunters and Farmers in the Northern Rio Grande, OCA/UNM Report No. 185-688

Peggy A. Gerow and Alexander Kurota (2004): Across the Caja del Rio Plateau II: Hunters and Farmers in the Northern Rio Grande, OCA/UNM Report No. 185-

Peggy A. Gerow and Patrick Hogan (2005): Across the Caja del Rio Plateau III: Hunters and Farmers in the Northern Rio Grande, OCA/UNM Report No. 185-845

Peggy A. Gerow (2003): New Mexico Army National Guard Historic Structure: Pre-1960 Cold War Era and Earlier, OCA/UNM Report No. 185-770

Peggy A. Gerow (2002) The Guns of Summer; A Cultural Resources Inventory of the New Mexico National Guard Training Area, Camp Luna, Las Vegas, New Mexico, OCA/UNM Report No. 185-760

Peggy A. Gerow (2002): Happy Valley: A Class III Inventory of the NMARNG Rifle Range and Training Area, Eddy County, New Mexico, OCA/UNM Report No. 185-711

Janette M. Elyea and Peggy A. Gerow (1999): Black Mountain: A Class III Inventory of the NMARNG Deming Training & Rifle Range Area, Luna County, New Mexico, OCA/UNM Report No. 185-629 (report cover shown below)

Peggy A. Gerow (1999): Good Roswell Hunting: A Class III Inventory of the NMARNG WETS Area, Chaves County, New Mexico, OCA/UNM Report No. 185-629

William H. Doleman (1996): Archeological Survey in Southern Caja del Rio; Class III Inventory of Portion of the Camel Tracks Training Area, OCA/UNM Report No. 185-548 (report cover shown below)

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Surveys and excavations at Fort Wingate near Gallup, NM, belong among our other large-scale projects at military installations. This work was conducted for the US Army Corps of Engineers, Albuquerque District.

Christopher A. Turnbow and David E. DeMar (2007): Data Recovery at the Wingate School Site, Fort Wingate, Iyambito Chapter, McKinley County, New Mexico, OCA/UNM Report No. 185-807

Jeanne A. Schutt and Richard C. Chapman (2001): Archeological Investigations on Rusty Nail Ridge, Fort Wingate Depot Activity, New Mexico, OCA/UNM Report No. 185-569

Jeanne A. Schutt and Richard C. Chapman (2001): Archeological Investigations of Two Sites on Radar Ridge, Fort Wingate Depot Activity, New Mexico, OCA/UNM Report No. 185-584

Jeanne A. Schutt and Richard C. Chapman (1997): Cycles of Closure: A Cultural Resources Inventory of Fort Wingate Depot Activity, New Mexico, OCA/UNM Report No. 185-551

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Conducted for the New Mexico Office of Military Affairs, OCA also excavated sites in the Middle Rio Puerco Valley.

Peggy A. Gerow (1998): The Hawk-Rio Puerco Project; Excavations at Seven Sites in the Middle Rio Puerco Valley, New Mexico, OCA/UNM Report No. 185-372 (report cover shown below)

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OCA performed a long-term research study on White Sands Missile Range. The project was conducted for the US Army Engineers District, Fort Worth and concluded with this publication:

William H. Doleman, Richard C. Chapman, Ronald L. Stauber, and June-el Piper (1992): Landscape Archeology in the Southern Tularosa Basin (multiple volumes), OCA/UNM Report No.185-324 (Volume 3 report cover shown below)

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In 1989, OCA conducted testing at two archeological sites at Holloman Air Force Base near Alamogordo. This work was concluded with the following report:

William H. Doleman, Janette Elyea, and Robert Dello-Russo (1990): Archeological Testing of Two Prehistoric Sites at Holloman Air Force Base, New Mexico, OCA/UNM Report No. 185-424

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OCA also performed a survey at Fort Craig for the Bureau of Land Management and published the following report:

Peggy A. Gerow (1988): A Cultural Resources Inventory and Mapping of the Fort Craig Special Management Area, Socorro County, New Mexico, OCA/UNM Report No. 185-377a