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-14 - cultural pattern included the cultivation of domestic crops (maize, beans and squash), supplemented by hunting and gathering activities, permanent villages composed of pit houses and dry laid masonry granaries, ceramics "~ ~ and a distinctive style of rock art (Creaseman et al. 1977). The dif- ferential distribution of evidence for these1traits in the Colorado Plateau, Great Basin and the Uinta Basin .implies that the term "Fremont" may actually encompass regional variants and consequently designate no precise cultural entity (Madsen 1979: 711-712). For the sake of continuity, the ambiguous term will be used here to indicate the presence of at least one of,the above mentioned characteristics. C. Jennings (1974) has observed that there ie little or no evidence of horticulture in the Piceance Basin. He suggests that the eastern boundary of Fremont ~) horticulture coincides with [he Cathedral Bluffs, located to the wesC C, of the basin. Two of ,147 sites recorded during his survey of the Piceance Sasiri were identified as Fremont (1974: 12 ). It is unlikely that much, if any, evidence of Fremont horticulture will be recovered \ east of Douglas Creek and the Cathedral Bluffs, due to high elevation and relatively low precipitation. As illustrated by Jennings data (1974) Fremont hunting sites are more likely to occur in this region. Fremont rock art has been found north of the study area (Wheeler 1979: personal communication). The nomadic Ute cultures, predominant in northwestern Colorado during protohistoric and historic periods, most likely succeeded the Fremont. Evidence of early Ute occupation of the Piceance Basin consists of several wickiup sites (C. Jennings 1974: 10, 13). The Duck Creek Wickiup "" Village, the largest recorded village of its type in Colorado and listed on the National Register of Historic Places, is also located in the