Editing Black Rock, New Mexico (section)

==History==
There was a spring at Black Rock and the [[Zuni people|Zuñi]] had irrigated fields there since about 3000 [[Before Present|BP]] (950 [[BCE]]).<ref>"The findings from these projects suggest that early farmers moved into the Zuni region some 3,000 to 4,000 years ago, bringing with them irrigation agriculture and living in communities laid out along the riverine environments." {{Cite journal |author=Damp, Jonathan E. |year=2008 |title=The Economic Origins of Zuni |journal=Archaeology Southwest |volume=22 |issue=2 |page=8 |url=http://www.archaeologysouthwest.org/pdf/arch-sw-v22-no2.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140912114537/http://www.archaeologysouthwest.org/pdf/arch-sw-v22-no2.pdf |archive-date=12 September 2014 |url-status=live }}; see also {{Cite book|author=Damp, Jonathan E.|year=2010|chapter=Zuni emergent agriculture: economic strategies and the origins of Zuni|editor1=Gregory, David A. |editor2=Wilcox, David R. |title=Zuni Origins: Toward a new synthesis of Southwestern archaeology|publisher=University of Arizona Press|location=Tucson, Arizona|pages=118&ndash;132|isbn=978-0-8165-2893-6}}</ref> The Zuñi had a small, seasonally occupied village on the lava flow, just north of the Zuni River, which the [[Spanish missions in New Mexico|Spanish]] called "Ranchos de Zuñi".<ref>{{harvnb|Dodge|2010|p=69}}</ref>