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The dependent resurvey for T6NR90W, conducted from 1910 to 1911 (accepted in 1913),
<br />shows the same unnamed road bisecting the western half of Section 33 and continues north
<br />through Section 28. Segments of this road were previously recorded in 2011 as 5MF7402.:
<br />and in 2013 as 5MF7402.2. A structure is also shown in the NE corner of Section 34; the
<br />structure is likely related to previously recorded 5MF319.
<br />Land patents filed within the project area consist of Homestead Original (13),
<br />Homestead Stock Raising (7), Cash Entry (3), and Sale - Coal Land (1), and date between
<br />1911 and 1940. Interestingly, the earliest land patent, filed in 1911, is a Coal Land patent.
<br />LITERATURE OVERVIEW
<br />Overviews of prehistory and history of the region, and more locally within the Little
<br />Snake Field Office, can be found in the following contexts: "Colorado Prehistory: A Context
<br />for the Northern Colorado River Basin" (Reed and Metcalf 1999), "An Overview of the
<br />Prehistoric Cultural Resources" (LaPoint 1987), "Regional Class I Overview of Cultural
<br />Resources " (McDonald and Metcalf 2006), "Colorado History: A Context for Historical
<br />Archaeology" (Church et al. 2007), "An Isolated Empire: A History of Northwest Colorado"
<br />(Atheam 1977), "Plateau Country Historic Context" (Husband 1984), and "Synthesis of
<br />Archaeological Data Compiled for the Piceance Basin Expansion, Rockies Express Pipeline,
<br />and Uinta Basin Lateral Projects in Moffat and Rio Blanco Counties, Colorado, and
<br />Sweetwater, County, Wyoming" (Reed and Metcalf 2009).
<br />Prehistoric Background
<br />The following provides a brief discussion of each of the major prehistoric cultural/
<br />temporal eras occurring during the past 12,000 years.
<br />Paleoindian Era
<br />Paleoindian finds include Clovis tradition (11,500-10,500 BC), Goshen tradition
<br />(11,000-10,700 BC), Folsom tradition (10,800-9,500 BC), and Plano/Foothill Mountain
<br />tradition (9,500-6,400 BC). Of the four, Plano/Foothill Mountain is the most common and
<br />include Cody complex, Agate Basin, Hell Gap, Scottsbluff, and Eden type points. Examples
<br />have been found near Cross Mountain, Skull Creek Basin, Browns Park, Dinosaur National
<br />Monument, along the Yampa River, Sand Wash Basin, Trout Creek, and near Hayden
<br />(Collins 2007; La Point 1987; Reed and Metcalf 1999; Chase and Jennings 1981; Hand 2006;
<br />and Stucky 1977).
<br />Evidence of a Paleoindian occupation within the region of the present study is scant.
<br />Intensive archaeological investigations conducted at 50 sites along the Colorado Interstate
<br />Gas Company's Uinta Basin Lateral (CIG-UBL) pipeline, the Rockies Express Pipeline
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