LANL News:

Coronado Historic Site in Bernalillo received a Community Technical Assistance grant from Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) to study two New Mexico state artifacts that were then provided to the laboratory to be analyzed.

X-ray analysis techniques were used to study the morphology, shape, composition and atomic information.

One of the artifacts was a copper quarrel (arrowhead) that provides more evidence of Coronado’s presence in the area.

LANL produced video interview with the two scientists can be viewed here.