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<br /> historic archaeology context for all of Colorado was written by
<br /> William and Nancy Buckles (1984) . Joseph King (1984) wrote the
<br /> engineering context for the state of Colorado. In addition,
<br /> cultural resource reports specifically for Dowe Flats by Marcus
<br /> Grant, Jennifer Germer and Michael Burney (prehistoric) and
<br /> Steven Mehls (historic) provide the background for the following
<br /> narratives.
<br /> Sources useful in reviewing the cultural history of northeastern
<br /> Colorado are Anderson (1985) , Buckles (1968) , Burney (1987, 1989,
<br /> 1994) , Butler (1981, 1986, 1988) , Caldwell and Henning (1978) ,
<br /> Cassells (1983) , Chase ( 1980) , Conner (1968) , Eddy and Windmiller
<br /> (1977) , Eighmy (1984) , Frison (1978) , Gunnerson (1987) , Guthrie,
<br /> Gadd, Johnson and Lischka (1984) , Haug (1968) , Morris and Kainer
<br /> (1978) , Morris and Mayo (1979) , Mulloy (1952, 1958a) , Nelson
<br /> (1967) , Rippeteau (1979) , Stephenson (1965) , Wedel (1961) ,
<br /> Wendland (1978) , Wood (1967) and Wood (1971) .
<br /> When reviewing the archaeological record it is important to keep
<br /> in mind the transitional nature of the foothills region,
<br /> including Dowe Flats. Three zones, the plains, foothills, and
<br /> front range alpine, are intrinsically intermingled when defining
<br /> archaeological complexes. The foothills subarea defined by
<br /> Eighmy (1984) will be used, as will information provided by
<br /> Guthrie, Gadd, Johnson, and Lischka 11984) , regarding what they
<br /> refer to as the plains/foothills transition zone.
<br /> The archaeology of the Colorado Piedmont and foothills region has
<br /> been researched For over 50 years. Archaeological remains date
<br /> to pre-Clovis occupations (+10, 000 B.C. ) with few chronological
<br /> gaps . The Paleo-Indian stage, for the most part, is represented
<br /> ' by kill sites. One major exception to this pattern is
<br /> Lindenmeier, a Folsom period site in Larimer County. This site
<br /> represents a lengthy campsite occupation by early big game
<br /> hunters. In addition., Lindenmeier, with its lack of mammoth
<br /> remains, appears to document either the extinction or over-kill
<br /> of mammoth and a shifting of hunting emphasis to Bison Antiguus
<br /> (Eighmy 1984 ) .
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