Hueco Tanks National Historic Landmark Nomination
Roberts T. 2021. Hueco Tanks National Historic Landmark Nomination. National Historic Landmark Nominations. 71000930_NHL. National Park Service. Washington, DC
This document is the National Historic Landmark (NHL) nomination for Hueco Tanks in El Paso, El Paso County, Texas. The NHL nomination for Hueco Tanks documents its national significance under NHL Criterion 6 as one of the most important repositories of religious, cosmological, and ideological symbols and iconography in the American Southwest, containing 304 known rock art panels with an estimated 3,000 to 6,000 individual figures. Approximately one-half of the known panels include Formative period (1,800–550 BP) imagery. There also is an unbroken record of human occupation represented among the archeological deposits at the site (Howard et al. 2010:242, 245; Myers 1997:8). While there are multiple cultural-historical occupations represented among the archeological deposits and rock imagery at Hueco Tanks, the most intensive occupations occurred during the Formative period.
- Type
- Published Report
- Authors
- Roberts, Tim
- Date of Issue
- 2021-01-13
- Publisher
- National Park Service
- Keywords
- Chihuahuan Polychrome Abstract, Desert Abstract, El Paso, Formative Period, Jornada Abstract, Jornada Mogollon, Middle and Late Archaic Red Monochrome, National Historic Landmark, Plains Biographic, Texas