North American Database of Archaeological Geophysics

Database Report:

Site Name: Chetro Ketl (Chaco Canyon National Monument); Site Number: _____; County: _____; State: NM; Country: USA; Ownership: National Park Service; Landform: Terrace;

Date of Site: AD 850-1250; Period Type: Prehistoric; Culture: Anasazi (Ancestral Pueblo); Site Type: Agricultural Field; Site Size: 300 sq m;

Survey Type: Magnetometry;

Instrument: Electron spin magnetometer; Sampling Interval: _____; Prospecting Depth: 1-1.5 m ; Area Surveyed: 1,225 sq m; Date of Survey: 1973; Land Cover Type: Sparse grass and sage; Ground Truthing: Yes;

Graphics/Imagery:

Contour map of magnetic values in the Chetro Ketl field and surrounding area;

 

Project Name: Chetro Ketl (Chaco Canyon National Monument), NM;

Reference: Loose, R.W., and T.R. Lyons. (1976). The Chetro Ketl Field: A Planned Water Control System in Chaco Canyon. In Remote Sensing Experiments in Cultural Resource Studies: Non-Destructive Methods of Archeological Exploration, Survey, and Analysis. Reports of the Chaco Center. National Park Service and University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico. 1:133-153.

Survey by: Richard W. Loose and Thomas R. Lyons, Chaco Center, National Park Service, University of New Mexico.

Survey for: Chaco Center, National Park Service;

Report Location: Chaco Center, National Park Service, Albuquerque, NM; Report Type: CRM Report;

Abstract/Summary