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~ti <br />• INTERPRETATION OF THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF THE WILLIAI1S FORK MOUNTAINS <br />Introduction <br />In summarizing the archaeology of the Williams Fork Mountains and <br />much of northwestern Colorado, one must keep in mind that little pub- <br />lished material is available at present. It becomes necessary, then, <br />to go further afield to find comparable archaeological materials. <br />Reports from which comparisons in this study were drawn are from <br />a wide geographical area. We have utilized literature from the Uncom- <br />paghre Plateau (Worming ton and Lister 1956), Dinosaur National Monument <br />(Breternitz et a1. 1970; Burgh and Scoggins 1948; Lister 1951), Picto- <br />graph Cave in Wyoming (Mulloy 1958), and several sites in eastern <br />Colorado such as LoDaisKa and Idagic Mountain (Irwin and Irwin 1959; Irwin- <br />(• Williams and Irwin 1966). These sources have been chosen on the basis <br />of comparable artifactual materials, and basically a similar kind of re- <br />source utilization. <br />Materials from western Colorado are used because they are from rea- <br />sonably close geographic areas and have the highest probability of pre- <br />senting some sort of cultural continuity. Eastern Colorado sites were <br />investigated to determine comparative value. The LoDaiska site, in par- <br />ticular, presents strong similarities in artifactual content, and pro- <br />duced evidence thought to be related to, or influenced by the Fremont <br />occupation of northwestern Colorado and northeastern Utah (Irwin and <br />Irwin 1959). <br />Literature concerning the more distant sites, such as Pictograph <br />• Cave and~Signal Butte (Strong 1935), was utilized on the grounds that it <br />