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/ ~ Gold was discovered at Hahn's Peak by 1861, and by 1870 this was a boom town, though <br />most other areas were not settled until after 1881 when the UTes were moved to Utah. <br />Then cattle ranching expanded and towns began to spring up. By 1900 most towns in <br />northwestern Colorado, such as Steamboat Springs, Craig, and Meeker were settled. <br />By 1900 cattle, sheep, oil, and tourism became the main economic basis of exploitation <br />of northwestern Colorado (Athearn 1977). Historic sites in the Yampa Basin are gen- <br />erallyarchitectural (McNamara 1978). <br />Culture Areas <br />This part of Colorado lies beteween four culture areas, the northwestern Plains, the <br />Central Plains, the Great Basin, and the great Southwest. Southwestern material is <br />distinctive, but is very unlikely to occur this far north. Northwestern Plains and Central <br />Plains material is quite similar; the differences will not be considered. However, there is <br />a great deal of similarity between some Great Basin and Plains material, which can make <br />the determination of cultural affiliation quite difficult. <br />Corner-notched Fremont projectile points closely resemble those of The Plains Woodland <br />tradition (Berry and Berry 1975: Irwin-Williams and Irwin 1965; Ward-Williams and <br />Foster 1976). Side-notched specimens are identical to Plains projectile points (Berry and <br />Berry 1975). A surface find of Plains-Woodland pottery was recovered from Dinosaur <br />National Monument while hypothesized Fremont material has been recovered within <br />Plains-Woodland levels on east slope sites (Irwin-Williams and Irwin 1966, Irwin and Irwin <br />1959). Side-notched points have been found stratigraphically above corner-notched <br />points in the Plains and the Great Basin (Nelson 1967; Leach 1970). Corner-notched <br />points mentioned above were later used to define the Hog Back Phase of the Plains- <br />Woodland tradition (Nelson 1971). <br />Previous Research <br />The most striking fact apparent in a review of the research conducted in areas with <br />reasonable proximity to The study area is the paucity of such research. Arthur (1977), <br />one of the few examples of research in the area, mentions the same fact. However, <br />enough data has been compiled that researchers have begun to make testable hypothesis, <br />• at least in terms of cultural chronology and site locations. More sophisticated analyses <br />must wait for the data base to grow. Previous researchers have used various systems to <br />~ classify and dote their material. This material has been placed in the cultural sequence <br />5-8 <br />