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==Points of interest== * [[Ake Site]] - A prehistoric archaeological location near the town of [[Datil, New Mexico|Datil]] in the [[San Augustine Basin]], it has been dated during the [[Clovis culture|Clovis]] period between 10999 BC 8000 BC, and during the [[Folsom tradition|Folsom]] period between 7999BC and 5999 BC, making it among the oldest inhabited sites in the [[American Southwest]].<ref name="nationalregisterofhistoricplaces.com"/> * [[Bat Cave (Horse Springs, New Mexico)|Bat Cave]] - Formed by ancient wave, the cave was covered by an inland sea 35 miles long and 165 feet deep 15,000 years ago. In the late 1940s and early 50s, archeologists found stone artifacts of human inhabitation spanning 5,000 years.<ref>Padilla, L. (2003) [http://www.southernnewmexico.com/Articles/Southwest/Catron/BatCavingonthePlainsofSan.html "Bat Caving on the Plains of San Agustin"] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110630165830/http://southernnewmexico.com/Articles/Southwest/Catron/BatCavingonthePlainsofSan.html |date=June 30, 2011 }}. Retrieved November 17, 2010.</ref> In 1948 and 1950, evidence, as early as 3600 BCE, for popping corn, as ears of [[popcorn]], were discovered by Harvard anthropology graduate student Herbert W. Dick<ref>{{cite book |last1=Dick |first1=Herbert W. |title=Bat Cave |date=1961 |publisher=[[School of American Research]] |isbn=978-0-8263-0287-8 |language=en}}</ref> and Harvard botany graduate student Earle Smith, in the "Bat Cave" complex of rock shelters,<ref>{{cite book |last1=Dick |first1=Herbert W. |title=The Archaeology of Bat Cave, Catron County, New Mexico |date=1957 |publisher=Harvard University |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=vnjInQEACAAJ |language=en}}</ref> and attributed to the [[Ancestral Puebloan]] peoples, who maintained trade networks with peoples in tropical Mexico.<ref name="usda">{{cite web |title=Early History · Popcorn: Ingrained in America's Agricultural History · |url=https://www.nal.usda.gov/exhibits/speccoll/exhibits/show/popcorn/early-history |website=www.nal.usda.gov |publisher=U.S. Department of Agriculture |access-date=January 16, 2024}}</ref><ref>{{Citation |title= Ancient Popcorn Unearthed in Peru |first= Joseph |last= Stromberg |work= [[Smithsonian (magazine)|Smithsonian]] |url= https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/ancient-popcorn-unearthed-in-peru-81304339/ |access-date= 2021-01-01}}</ref><ref name="Gwr/1stPop">{{cite web |title=Earliest popcorn |url=https://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/world-records/630494-earliest-popcorn |website=Guinness World Records |publisher=Guinness World Records Limited |access-date=9 October 2024 |quote=The first evidence of popcorn has been radiocarbon-dated dates to as old as 6,700 years (c. 4700 BCE), based on macrofossil cobs unearthed between 2007 and 2011 at the Paredones and Huaca Prieta archaeological sites on the northern coast of Peru.}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Copies of Herbert W. Dick photographs of excavations at Bat Cave {{!}} Collection: NAA.PhotoLot.R86-67 |url=https://sova.si.edu/record/naa.photolot.r86-67 |website=sova.si.edu |access-date=9 October 2024}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Smith |first1=Erin |title=Friends celebrate completion of professor Dick's project |url=https://www.chieftain.com/story/news/2000/02/07/friends-celebrate-completion-professor-dick/8997308007/ |access-date=9 October 2024 |work=Pueblo Chieftain}}</ref><ref>{{cite journal |title=The Archaeological Evidence |journal=Maize: Origin, Domestication, and Its Role in the Development of Culture |date=2013 |pages=118–220 |url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/maize/archaeological-evidence/A4191869D9DF2FEC198DE792100A2D4F |access-date=9 October 2024 |publisher=Cambridge University Press}}</ref><ref name="votSW/catron">{{cite web |last1=Hammons |first1=Suzanne |title=Shootouts, Cattle Drives and Model T's: a History of the Villages of Catron County |url=https://voiceofthesouthwest.org/shootouts-cattle-drives-and-model-ts-a-history-of-the-villages-of-catron-county/ |website=Voice of the Southwest |access-date=9 October 2024 |date=28 July 2014}}</ref> * [[Bearwallow Mountain Lookout Cabins and Shed]] - Built in 1940 by the Works Progress Administration, they are one of three New Deal-era buildings in the Gila National Forest. * [[Black Mountain Lookout Cabin]] * [[Catwalk National Recreation Trail]] - A remnant of a water system for the former mining town of [[Graham, New Mexico|Graham]], as many as 29,000 visitors a year walk on the Catwalk's trail or picnic at the mouth of the canyon. * [[Cooney's Tomb]] - Located on the outskirts of [[Alma, New Mexico|Alma]] and near the ghost town of [[Cooney, New Mexico|Cooney]], Cooney's Tomb is a large boulder beside the road. It marks the burial location of James C. Cooney, a miner in the area who was killed by Apaches in 1880. * [[El Caso Lookout Complex]] - Built in 1934 by the Works Progress Administration, the complex was one of three New Deal-era forest fire lookouts built in Catron County. * [[Mangas Mountain Lookout Complex]] * [[Mogollon, New Mexico#Mogollon historic district|Mogollon Historic District]] - The site of many historic buildings, Mogollon was a successful mining town until the turn of the 20th century. * [[Mogollon Baldy Lookout Cabin]] *[https://www.diaart.org/visit/visit-our-locations-sites/walter-de-maria-the-lightning-field The Lightning Fields] - A 640-acre art installation by Walter De Maria. Commissioned and maintained by Dia Art Foundation * Tularosa River Site and Tularosa Ranger Station - A collection of more than 500 petroglyphs and a historic US Forest Service ranger station dating to the 1920s. * [[Zuni Salt Lake and Sanctuary]] - The Pueblo people of the Southwest have made annual pilgrimages to Zuñi Salt Lake to harvest salt, for both culinary and ceremonial purposes for thousands of years. Ancient roadways radiate out from the lake to the various pueblos and ancient pueblo sites.
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