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r~ <br />u <br />• <br />SGN247, pole-impressed, burned-clay pieces were recovered from Feature l9 that dated <br />3300190 B.P., ca. 1680 B.C. These may be the remains of a windbreak or wickiup-like <br />sintcture similar to one Pound in the Alkali Crcck drainage north of Gunnison or at 5GN 10 in <br />the Curecanti area (Jones 1986:170-173). <br />At the Alkali Creek site the remains of a wickiup dated 4065f380 B.P., ca. 2670 B.C. <br />(Black and Florvatlt 1981:175). Site SGNIO produced evidence of at least two occupations, <br />one between about 2400-3200 B.C. and the other about 4900 to 5200 B.C. A wickiup <br />feature Here was dated 393Gt2G0 B.P., ca. 2520 Q.C., and burned clay concentrations <br />indicating another similar structure was dated 61641210 B.P., ca. 5040 B.C. (Stiger <br />1931:57). A storage cist was also found at this site and was probably associated with the <br />more recent occupation. Another burned clay concentration was found at SGN53 (Jones <br />1936:33); it was a(liliated with a hearth that yielded a date ofG330t130 (ca. 5700 B.C.). <br />Three Late Archaic sites that contained structural remains have been found in west- <br />central Colorado, as well. Colorado Department of Highways archaeologists found linear, <br />low-walled (10-40 cm) surface stntctures and a burial site, SEA 125, near Dotsero. Nothing <br />was recorded within the structures; however, a burial found in an adjacent crevice yielded a <br />C-14 date ofca. 1130 B.C., two large corner-notched knives, bird and dog remains, and <br />rabbit bone beads and an awl (Eland and Gooding 1980). <br />A pithouse excavated at SGF 126, the Kewclaw Site, in the townsite of Battlement <br />Mesa, had a roughly circular Floor four meters in diameter, a central hearth, and walls that <br />rose abniptly 30 to 60 centimeters. The walls showed evidence of having been smoothed <br />with water or mud glazed. Eight small, shallow holes around and within the pithouse and a <br />single large (tole at the center of the floor implied the presence of a superstructure, <br />presumably constructed of wooden poles. Tltis site dated ca. 1 100 B.C. and may be a <br />cultural relative of the Dotsero burial site (Conner and Langdon 1987:7.44). <br />!-• The Sisyphus Rockshelter, located just north of the Colorado River and east of the <br />town of Debeque, contained the ruins of a structural feature of Late Archaic origin dating <br />550 B.C. (Gooding and Shields 1985). Uncovered were a sandstone slab-lined oblong floor <br />''' and three stone foundation walls. It is assumed that this was a habitation structure, and its <br />presence implies at least asemi-sedentary lifestyle. <br />*a <br />~ ' Late Prehistoric and Historic Periods <br />~ The Fremont Culture apparently occupied the region ca. A. D. 500-1300; yet, many <br />unanswered questions concerning the Fremont remain. It is generally agreed that various <br />horticultttralist (Formative) groups--possibly of diverse origins and languages, but sharing <br />similar material traits and subsistence strategies--occupied Utalt and western Colorado <br />~j~• 8 <br />I. <br />I <br />