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1 <br /> <br />' CULTURAL RESOURCES <br />' Survey Results <br /> During the cultural resource inventory of the Grand Mesa Coal <br /> Company's Red Canyon Mine Plan Area, a total of two archaeological <br />' sites and five isolated finds were located. All of these resources <br /> are of aboriginal origin. Descriptions of the sites and isolated <br /> finds are presented below; detailed information can be obtained <br />' from the State of Colorado Site Inventory Record and Isolated Find <br /> Records in Appendix A and from Table I. <br />t Sites <br /> 5DT541 is a sparce lithic scatter of 51 flakes located on the <br /> east side of an intermittent drainage just southeast of Brimstone <br />' Corner in the Transect 17 buffer zone. The site measures 40 m. in <br /> a north to south orientation and 10 m. east to west. Vegetation <br /> on the site includes pinyon-juniper, sage, serviceberry, prickly <br />' pear, yucca and scarlet 9ilia. The northern tip of the site is marked <br /> by an outcrop of basalt boulders while the southern end is characterized <br /> by a light bro~~~n loess of unkno~•m depth. No diagnostic artifacts or <br />' features were observed. <br /> 5DT542 is also a lithic scatter ~•iith 112 artifacts located on the <br />' west side of an intermittent drainage approximately 100 m. southwest <br />of Brimstone Corner and is in Transect 17 as well. The scatter is <br /> confined to an area measuring 60 m. north to south and 54 m. east to <br /> west. Vegetation on the site includes pinyon-juniper, sage, service- <br />' berry, prickly pear and scruboak. The soil at the site is a light <br /> brown loess of unknown depth. 5DT542 is located approximately 280 m. <br /> southwest of 5DT541. No diagnostic artifacts or features were observed. <br />' Isolated Finds <br />' SDT543 consists of a single white chert nonutilized secondary <br />flake located in an area marked by an outcrop of basalt boulders. <br /> SDT543 is located in Transect 27. No other artifacts or features were <br /> observed. <br /> 1 <br /> SDT54 <br />i consists of five nonutilized flakes concentrated in an area <br /> 2 m. x 2 m. One of the flakes is a quartzite secondary flake while the <br /> others are small, thinning flakes. IF-2 is located in Transect 27. No <br />' other artifacts or features were observed. <br />' SDT545 is a single quartzite interior flake, also located in an <br />area of basalt outcrop. This isolated find shows evidence of unifacial <br /> ~•rear along one side indicating that it may have been used as a scraper. <br /> No other artifacts or features were observed. <br /> <br /> 12 <br />1 <br />~ i <br />