This project was undertaken by the Architectural Research Center (ARC) preservation team of the Texas Tech University College Of Architecture under the supervision of Gary Smith, Architect and Associate Professor of Architecture. The team members include: Jessica Garcia, Jonathan Oltman, Wei Xiong, and Sara Girotto. Site documentation for the project was done the first week of July of 2002. In House Project documentation was completed in the Fall 2002 and Spring 2003. Archeological consultation was provided by Peggy Gaudy from The Bureau of Land Management, Farmington, New Mexico Field Office. Funding for this project was provided by The Bureau of Land Management through the U.S. National Park Service.

The Bis sa’ani Community’s focal point is a pair of multi-room complexes on a narrow, clay ridge rising above the southern edge of Escavada Wash. The community is associated with the Anasazi culture that flourished one thousand years ago in the Four Corners region of the American Southwest. The people who constructed both the larger ridge structures and the surrounding community were part of a complex cultural system that integrated smaller isolated structures and remote “outlying” farming communities, such as Bis sa’ani, with the concentration of large complexes and other features in Chaco Canyon.