Editorial
Field Studies — No. 04
On the soils of the upper Rio Grande.
Soil profiles, hydrology, and Pueblo agricultural practice in the Galisteo Basin.
The acequia system at San Cristóbal predates Spanish settlement by at least three centuries. Pueblo farmers diverted water from arroyo seeps and seasonal springs to irrigate small rectangular fields of corn, beans, squash, and amaranth. Archaeologists have documented over forty distinct field complexes within a five-mile radius of the pueblo.
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Pueblo
IV
Annual Symposium · Open to the public
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Native Grasses of the Galisteo Basin
112 pages, 86 black-and-white photographs, indexed. A field guide to the perennial bunchgrasses of north-central New Mexico, with notes on traditional Pueblo uses.
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Grass is the forgiveness of nature — her constant benediction. Forests decay, harvests perish, flowers vanish, but grass is immortal.
John James Ingalls · 1872
Article
Volume IV · Essay 03
The Galisteo Basin pueblos
The Galisteo Basin lies at the eastern edge of the Pueblo IV cultural area. Between 1300 and 1600 CE, at least six major puebloan settlements stood within a ten-mile radius of present-day San Cristóbal. The petroglyph panels along the eastern arroyos record this period in dense palimpsest: hunters, kachinas, and stylized cosmographies cut into volcanic basalt with stone or copper tools.
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Studies in Southwestern Archaeology · Quarterly · Vol. XII
Bulletin
Bulletin · Vol. XII · No. 3 · Spring 2026
On the desert ephemerals.
A note on the brief spring flowering of the desert candytuft (Aethionema thomasianum) and four other endemic species of the Galisteo Basin watershed, with field observations from March through early May.
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