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1 <br />1 <br />' Historic <br /> Baker (1978) has proposeda three-phase chronology regarding the <br /> historic resources for the North Fork vicinity of the Gunnison River <br />' Valley in Colorado which includes the project area. The earliest <br /> phase, dating from 1600 to 1376, has been termed the Phase of <br />' Intermittent Exploration and Indian/White Interaction. From 1876 <br />to the 1890s is the Phase of Primary Settlement and Extensive Land <br /> Exploitation. Baker (1978) concludes that the major cultural <br /> tradition in this phase was ranching. <br />' <br /> The last phase, the Phase of Urbanization and Intensive Land <br /> Exploitation, dates from the 1890s to the 1920s. During this time <br /> period the cultural traditions included coal mining, fruit ranching, <br /> urban growth, stock ranching and farming (Baker 1978:18). It is quite <br /> probable that most of Lhe historic resources in the project area fall <br />' into this temporal placement. No historic components were located <br />in the transects selected for the 10~ sample; however, some are kno~•~n <br /> to exist (Figure 3)• BL11 archaeologist Doug Scott of the Montrose <br /> District (personal communication), has inforrned us that t~•ro early <br />' land patents were taken out in the project area. The earliest of <br /> these may date in the late 1890s. <br />' There is a wide range of archaeological site types that could be <br />located in the project area. Hibbets, et al. (1979) define twelve <br />such site types including: open lithic scatters, chipped and ground <br />stone scatter, primary reduction scatter/lithic source area, secondary <br />reduction scatter, chipped stone scatter/undifferentiated, outcrop <br />face lithic sites, rock shelters, rock art, ~•~ickiups, game traps, <br />isolated hearths and Euro-American historic. <br />1 <br />1 <br />1 <br /> <br />8 <br />