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• between about r\.D. 500 and A.D. f300 (Madsen 1979:717). Their occupation or utilization <br />of the central mountain area is very unclear as are their Anasazi contemporaries from whom <br />they adopted many traits. The Fremont were culturally distinct in several characteristics <br />including cone-rod-and-bundle basketry construction style, a moccasin style, trapezoidal <br />shaped clay figurines and rock art figures, and gray coil-made pottery (Madsen 1989:9-I I ). <br />Regionally, the Fremont apparently retained many Archaic subsistence strategies such <br />as relying more on the gathering of wild plants and having less dependence on domesticated <br />ones--corn, beans, and squash. Maize horticulture was practiced throughout the area, <br />however, as indicated by excavations in east central Utah and west central Colorado. Lister <br />and Dick (1952) and Wormington and Lister (1956) documented the presence of "Fremont- <br />Basketmakers" as they uncovered unbaked, molded clay figurines and evidence of corn <br />horticulture at rock shelter sites in Glade Park, southwest of Grand Junction, Colorado. <br />These and outer sites in Glade Park also are known for their splendid Fremont rock art of the <br />Classic Sieber Canyon style (Conner and Ott 1978). Another significant concentration of <br />Fremont Culture remains have been identified in the Douglas Creek area of Northwestern <br />Colorado. Characteristics of this group include dry and wet-laid masonry structures on <br />promontories, granaries in overhangs, and slab-lined pithouses. <br />Fremont ceramics are occasionally found in west-central Colorado, often in <br />• association with Anasazi decorated and corrugated Pttebloan wares. Anasazi wares have <br />been recovered from the htesa/Collbran area and were comparatively dated between A.D. <br />' 1000-1300 (Annand 1967:57). Groups I and ll of [he analyzed pottery in Annand's study <br />,... were not assigned a cultural atliliation but From the descriptions given, may be Fremont. <br />Gray ware ceramics have recently been dated at two sites in the Douglas Creek area. Sites <br />SR62823 and 5RB2329 yielded sand-tempered gray ware, named the Douglas Creek Gray <br />-• ware, and had associated dates of A. D. 570f140 and A.D. 790160 (Haulk 1993:252). <br />Comparative dates and ceramics were obtained from SRB2958 (Baker 1990). This type and <br />other Fremont ceramics, including Uinta Gray Ware and Emery Gray Ware, have been found <br />t~ on the western edge of the central mountain region (Conner and Langdon 1937; Patty- <br />i , Walker Buchanan, personal communication). <br />fl Evidence of Formative cultures' influence in this region is found in excavated and <br />surface contexts as near as Battlement Mesa, where small corner-notched projectile points <br />and [Ite partial remains of a pit structure were identified at site SGF134 (Conner and Langdon <br />'~ 1937). The stntcture dated A.D. 690190. A second occupation level was identified and <br />~ dated to A.D. 1035155 (ibid.7-44). A transition to the small side-notched point is noted for <br />the last recorded Formative occupation of Battlement Mesa. At site SGF133, the Uinta Side- <br />notched point was found in association with Kayenta Anasazi tradeware ceramics, which <br />P~ were dated by comparison to about A. D. 1225-1300 (ibid:8-5). <br />JJ • <br />~C <br />89 9 <br />`w <br />i~ <br />