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<br />Montrose. Both vase located near the Hotchkiss area on McDonald <br />'1 Mesa, approximately 12 sir miles southwest o£ Somerset. Zhe first, <br />• during June of 1975. involved the examination of proposed timber sale <br />and ehainiag properties and was conducted by Rim Pinkerton, Colorado <br />State University (Fiakerton, personal communication, 1976). Seven <br />prehistoric sites were located vhieh Pinkerton eatimatas to have been <br />inhabited siaea the Archaic Period (approximately 4000 B. C. ). No <br />diagnostic artifacts vets recorded. <br />During July and August, 1975, Breteratzz and Hreternitz (1975) <br />conducted investigations of 1297+ acres is the same area. Theq re- <br />visited the sites first located by Pinkerton sad discovered nine <br />additional sites of prehistoric occupation together with six isolated <br />finds. One of these isolated finds vas a projectile point described <br />by them as a Duncan-Hanna point (Hreteraitz and Hreeeraitz, 1975:1). <br />No further description of artifacts recovered from the sltea is given <br />is the report. <br />More extensive investigations have beta made is the area of the <br />Uncompahgre Plateau, located approximately 60 air miles to the vest- <br />southvest. Wormiagtoa and Lister (1956) first identified the "Uacomoahgre <br />Complex" in this region after examining evidence of a hunting and <br />gathering econocry eonceat.-ated in four rock shelters in 2~.esa sad <br />2"antrose counties. Later investigations of the type sites and related <br />localities led Buckles (1971:iii) to conclude that this vat a viable <br />cultural element throughout a 10,000 year pericd and represented <br />"...one of the largest and most iaelusive archaeological sequences <br />eetabliahed eo date for the Archaic state reareaeatations ±n the <br />vestera United States." <br />• 10 <br />