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<br />I<ESULTS <br />A review of the records of the Office of the State Archaeologi~;t, <br />The State Historic Preservation Officer, and with the Little <br />Snake Resource Area Office of the Pureau of Land Management <br />located one recorded site in the Colowyo Coal Mine buffer zone. <br />Cultural resource inventories in the surrounding area have lo- <br />cated sensitive site types, including rock art and rock shelters <br />(Arthur 1977; '4cNamara 1978; Lischka 1981; i~iheeler 19806). None <br />of these are on the property in question, however. <br />Archaeological and historical literature indicates that there is. <br />indeed a possibility of locating sensitive sites in the buffer <br />zone. Major points of this review have been presented elsewhere <br />in other reports on the cultural resource inventory of coal leases <br />• (Wheeler 1980a) and will not be detailed here. It is sufficient <br />to note that aboriginal groups, especial'y those with Fremont and <br />Ute affiliations, are noted for the production of rock art, and <br />that the utilization of rock shelters (as habitation sites), when <br />available, has been a characteristic of aboriginal groups since <br />Paleo-Indian times. It is also worthy of note that Euro-American <br />sites are commonly architectural, and that these cultures are <br />known to have been in the area. <br />The literature also made it clear, though it was not explicitly <br />stated, that rock art and rock shelter sites occur in rock over- <br />hangs where water erosion has produced steep rock walls. These <br />overhangs in steep rock walls occur along drainages where there <br />has been enough water erosion to downcut into the rock, producing <br />the steep walls. Usually these overhangs were utilized for hab- <br />itation Cohen they exhibit a southern exposure, though this is <br />not always the case. <br />u <br />7 <br />