Staff
Guadalupe A. Martinez, Archaeologist
Guadalupe A. Martinez
Archaeologist
505-827-6414
guadalupe.martinez@state.nm.us
B.A., English, University of New Mexico, 1976; second major, Anthropology, 1994
I began working for OAS in 1979 inves
tigating historic sheep-herding sites in northern New Mexico. I went on to do historic artifact analysis for various sites in Las Vegas, New Mexico. The results of these analyses were the OAS historic artifact analysis manual and the beginnings of a comparative collection of historic artifacts.
After a small hiatus I came back to work on a historic site on the Navajo reservation. Eventually, I worked on the Santa Fe Bypass and Las Campanas projects. I also did surveys of abandoned mines in the southern part of New Mexico and monitored small construction excavations in Santa Fe. I've worked in the Taos and Grants areas excavating pithouses, the Honda valley on cave sites, in Carlsbad and Roswell on nineteenth- and twentieth-century homestead sites, and along US 84-285 on prehistoric and historic sites. During this time I went back to school to get an official degree in anthropology, then went to work in the Southwest Room of the New Mexico State Library. In 2002 I returned to OAS and helped finish up data recovery work on US 84-285 and train members of the Palace of the Governors crew in historic analysis.
Presently, I'm writing a portion of the report for the US 84-285 Pojoaque Corridor project and doing historic-artifact analysis and writing for the Santa Fe Railyard. As a native Santa Fean the railyard project and the Civic Center have been very rewarding and personally interesting. I'm getting very close to digging up my own personal past, since I=m working in areas where I lived, played, and went to school in a town where my family has lived for centuries.