Blackwater Draw at Anderson Basin, Portales, NM

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Blackwater Draw at Anderson Basin, Portales, NM
Blackwater Draw at Anderson Basin, Portales, NM

**Anderson Basin** - National Register of Historic Places Ref # 66000483, date listed 10/15/1966

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Portales, NM (Roosevelt County)

*Closed when I arrived. Next time I'll review the hours. I did go to the museum in Portales.*

Blackwater Draw Locality 1 is the type-site for the Clovis culture- the oldest positively defined cultural group in North America. It was discovered in 1929 and excavations began in the 1930s. ENMU manages about 156 acres of the landmark. (1)

Blackwater Draw contains an important archaeological site, called Blackwater Draw National Historic Landmark, first recognized in 1929 by Ridgley Whiteman of Clovis, New Mexico.

Evidence of "fluted" points, spearheads now known as Clovis points (a New World invention) and other stone and bone weapons, tools, and processing implements were found at the archaeological site. The Clovis points were lanceolate and often, though not always, longer than Folsom points.

Clovis chipped stone technology is currently one of the oldest and most widespread chipped stone technologies recognized in the New World; radiocarbon dates on sediment from the Clovis layers at Blackwater Draw average around 11,290 years before the present. Two of the projectile points from Blackwater Draw were used as the type specimens to define Clovis chipped stone technology in the 1930s.

The 3,200-acre (1,300 ha) Anderson Basin district around Blackwater Draw in Roosevelt County, near Clovis and Portales was declared a National Historic Landmark in 1961 and incorporated into the National Register of Historic Places in 1966. (2)

References (1) Blackwater Draw www.bwdarchaeology.com/bwdnationalhistoriclandmark (2) Wikipedia en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blackwater_Draw

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