PREFACE

archaeological surveys had been done in the past, the project addressed how surveys could bepursued differently in the future while building information and modeling tools to serve currentand future management practices. The New Mexico part of the study focused on three oil and gasfields in different stages of development. The Loco Hills area, Eddy County, an example of amature oil and gas field, incorporated Hall’s Field Guide to the Geoarchaeology of theMescalero Sands, Southeast New Mexico. Azotea Mesa, Eddy County, was used as an exampleof a developing field while Otero Mesa, Otero County, was used as an example of a proposedfield.At the same time the PUMP III proposal was submitted to the DOE, a SENMO “mini-Roundtable” was held on 27-28 May 2002 in Roswell for a subset of the Lithics ResearchDomain members. Discussions focused on in-field analysis, the wisdom of non-collectionstrategies, attributes to record from lithics in the field and/or in the lab, defining material types,and assembling/distributing comparative lithics collections.Because the focus of the PUMP III project was archaeological survey practices and results, theSENMO after 2002 was able to focus on how to use data collected through archaeologicalexcavation to address specific research questions as well as developing guidelines for collectionand analysis of data in a comparable manner.The third SENMO Roundtable was held on 22-23 March 2003 in Roswell. Discussions focusedon the extent to which the Overview and Research Design for the Fruitland Coal GasDevelopment Area (Hogan et al. 1991) and its companion Data Comparability Guidelines forFruitland Coal Gas Gathering System Data Recovery (Farmington [BLM] Resource AreaCultural Advisory Group) could serve as a model for southeast New Mexico. It was at this timethat the product of the SENMO group began to shift from collaborative authorship of a regionalresearch design to a peer-review group for a research design written by a single author.In June of 2003, Dr. Phillip Shelley, on the faculty of Eastern New Mexico University, ledSENMO members in a discussion of the needs of the research design, the general timelines fordocument production and review, and the summary of research issues. Timothy Kearns and Joshof WCRM (Farmington) attended to share some of the preliminary results of their recent AT&Tlineexcavations in the Carlsbad area; Kearns had also been involved in the original FruitlandCoal Gas Development research design. Dr. John Montgomery, also on the faculty of ENMU,subsequently took over writing the research design and produced a preliminary draft in 2004.Dr. Patrick Hogan, of the Office of Contract Archaeology, University of New Mexico, wascontracted by Stephen Fosberg to complete the regional research design in September 2004. Dr.Hogan’s work, focused primarily on archaeological excavation, proceeded at the same time asthe PUMP III study, which focused primarily on archaeological survey.The final PUMP III report was issued in December 2005. Conclusions drawn for southeast NewMexico by the PUMP III project include the need for a complete break with accepted practicesfor survey, the urgent need for excavation to test relationships between surface artifacts andsubsurface features, and innovative examples of modifications of process to achieve these ends.The report, Adaptive Management and Planning Models for Cultural Resources in Oil and Gas