This field season included collaboration with and within the research agendas outlined by the Merced Board at Abiquiú, the descendants and land owners of the main plaza at Conejos CO, the Pueblo of Picuris, NM and with the help of a small crew of experienced excavators, analysts, and local community leaders.The Merced del Pueblo de Abiquiu Community Board has identified several excavation-based research opportunities for their community regarding the first use dates of some of their ancestral agricultural fields, plazas, and acequias and requested that we report to them during their annual consejo of land grant communities. At Conejos, the original plaza and potential loci for archaeological study was evaluated by a consortium of community leaders and our team. Finally, a collaborative group of universities, local historians and scholars, and Pueblo leadership met at several sites on Picuris land to discuss research potentials.
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