Creekside Village Archives - The Archaeological Conservancy

Archaeologist David Greenwald discusses the stratigraphy at Creekside Village, which shows the Rio Tularosa maintained steady flow through the late Holocene, creating slow-moving waters and riparian wetlands. Between A.D. 300–900, the area shifted from moist, winter-dominated vegetation to a drier, summer-moisture regime—likely due to canal construction that diverted water for irrigation and drained wetlands for farming. By about A.D. 1100, two centuries after Creekside Village was abandoned, the floodplain returned to its earlier ciénega wetland state. Photo by Tamara Jager Stewart

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