North American Database of Archaeological Geophysics

Database Report:

Site Name: LePlatt Homestead; Site Number: 5LA3421; County: Las Animas; State: CO; Country: USA; Ownership:US Army; Landform: terrace and floodplain;

Date of Site: prehistoric, AD 1050-1450; historic, 1916-1930; Period Type: PaleoIndian and Archaic; Initial Settlement of Pinon Canyon Region, Subperiod IV; Culture: Paleoindian and Archaic; Hispanic/Euroamerican; Site Type: Prehistoric rock sheleter, stone circles, stone enclosures; historic farm/ranch; Site Size: 16.24 ha;

Survey Type: Magnetic Susceptibility;

Instrument: Bartington MS2 magnetic susceptibility meter with MS2B dual frequency sensor; Sampling Interval: 0.2 m; Prospecting Depth: cut bank - 1.87 m; Test Unit 3 - 1.04 m; Area Surveyed: Cut Bank wall profile and Test Unit 3 wall profile; Date of Survey: samples collected summer 2002; Land Cover Type: grasses, juniper, and cholla; Ground Truthing: yes;

Graphics/Imagery:

Mass susceptibility magnetostratigraphic profile from east wall of Test Unit 3;

 

Mass susceptibility magnetostratigraphic profile from cutbank profile in the stratigraphic trench;  

 

Project Name: Magnetic Susceptibility Investigations at Site 5LA3421;

Reference: Kelsey M. Lowe and Steven L. De Vore (2003) Magnetic Susceptibility Investigations at Site 5LA 3421, Pinon Canyon Maneuver Site, Las Animas County, Colorado

Survey by: Kelsey M. Lowe, Department of Anthropology_and Earth Science, Minnesota State University, Moorhead, Minnesota; and Steven L. Devore, National Park Service, Federal Building, Room 474, 100 Centennial Mall North, Lincoln, Nebraska 68508; Phone 402-437-5392x141; Fax: 402-437-5098; email: steve_de_vore@nsps.gov____

Survey for: Mona Charles, Department of Anthropology, Fort Lewis College, Durango Colorado;

Report Location: Midwest Archaeological Center, National Park Service, Federal Building, Room 474, 100 Centennial Mall North, Lincoln, Nebraska 68508-3873; Report Type: CRM Report;

Abstract/Summary