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period in history (Criteria A and B). It lacks the distinctive characteristics of a type, period or <br />method of construction, or that represents the work of a master, or that possess high artistic <br />values or that represent a significant and distinguishable entity whose components may lack <br />individual distinction (Criterion Q. The segment is unlikely to yield additional data <br />important to history (Criterion D). The site, failing to meet any of the required Criteria, is <br />evaluated as a non -supporting segment of a need data site. In regard to the presently recorded <br />segment, no further work is recommended. <br />Site 5MF7762 is an open prehistoric camp that consists of a scatter of lithic debitage, <br />tools, and a single mano. The site is in the Transitional Zone at an elevation of 7040 feet. It <br />is situated in the Williams Fork Mountains at the confluence of Jeffway Gulch, a permanent <br />stream, and an unnamed, intermittent, tributary blueline drainage. Jeffway Gulch joins the <br />Williams Fork River 4.5 miles to the south. The site is on the prominence of a south- <br />southwest trending ridge that extends into the valley of Jeffway Gulch, forming a small hill. <br />The site is vegetated with big sage, snakeweed, rabbitbrush, a few bushes of serviceberry, <br />snowberry, grasses, and purple aster. The canyon in which the site is located is vegetated <br />with dense serviceberry, Gamble oak, and saltbush, with an understory of sagebrush, yarrow, <br />snakeweed, aster, wild rose, thistle, and Indian paintbrush. Ground visibility was <br />approximately 85 percent on the day of recording. The colluvial and aeolian soils consist of <br />shallow (2 to 15cm deep), brown sandy loam. The area is currently used for coal mining, <br />hunting, and cattle grazing. <br />The site measures 39m east -west by 34m north -south. The eastern edge of the site is <br />defined by a modern fence and the edge of a pullout on the side of County Road 33. It is <br />possible that a portion of the site was destroyed by the construction of the road and pullout. <br />A scatter of 63 flakes, a mano, a corner -notched projectile point, and a fragment of burnt <br />bone were observed on the site's surface. The lithic debitage consists primarily (42 <br />specimens) of interior chert and chalcedony flakes of light gray, gray, yellowish -brown and <br />gray, white, and white with red inclusions. An additional 16 secondary and five primary <br />chert and porcellanite flakes were noted. <br />The only chipped stone tool noted on the surface is a corner -notched projectile point <br />base of gray chert. The specimen measures 1.8+ x 1.4 x 0.3cm and compares with the <br />Uncompahgre Complex Type 22 points from the Roubideau Phase from approximately 3000- <br />500 BC, (Buckles 197 1) — basically a temporally non-diagnostic type. <br />A single mano was also noted at the eastern edge of the site, just to the west of the <br />fence. It is unifacially pecked and ground and measures 12.3 x 9.0 x 5.7cm and is made of <br />quartzitic sandstone. A small fragment of burnt bone was also found on the site. <br />In addition to the damage from the road and fence construction, it is possible that the <br />site has been surface collected. A modern trash dump is situated at the northwest edge of the <br />site, and a recent fire circle is visible on the surface of the pullout area. <br />33 <br />