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Historic Properties Treatment Plan, Collom Mine, Colorado 8 <br />camps) and are expected to contain substantially different tool assemblages (Binford 1980; <br />Chatters 1987). Differences in assemblage composition among cultural historic periods may <br />reflect general differences in basic technological organization and in settlement organization <br />(Bamforth 1986; Bleed 1986). It may also be possible to render specific tool kits or other <br />subassemblages within overall assemblages to provide insight into specific activities carried out <br />at the site. <br />Data Requirements: Definable and distinguishable tool assemblages deriving from individual <br />occupations or sets of associated occupations. <br />2.3 SUBSISTENCE PATTERNS <br />Research Topic 1: What animal and plant remains are present in each component? Which <br />animal and plant resources do these remains indicate were acquired and processed during each <br />site occupation or set of associated occupations? What animal and plant resources do ancillary <br />remains (e.g., butchering tools, groundstone, pollen) suggest were being exploited? What were <br />the apparent roles and relative importance of the different species and general types of <br />resources represented in each component and how do the differ? <br />Analysis of subsistence patterns consists of identifying the types of resources acquired, <br />processed, and /or consumed during particular occupations or sets of concomitant occupations <br />at the site. Relevant data to the reconstruction of subsistence patterns includes both direct <br />evidence in the form of faunal remains and charred seeds from cultural contexts and indirect <br />evidence in the form of flaked stone tool types, groundstone, elevated pollen counts for <br />economic plant species, blood residue, etc. (Hurlbett 1977; Madsen 1982; McGarry n.d). <br />Combined, those various lines of evidence point to the general types or resources being procured <br />(e.g., large animals, small animals, seeds, tubers), the particular genera or species being used, <br />and the relative importance of each resource type during the site occupations. The particular <br />type and format of resources being acquired provides crucial evidence in regards to the <br />47599 TRC Mariah Associates Inc. <br />