PERMFILE59039

• Permit No: C1981018
• IBM Index Class Name: Permit File
• Doc Date: 5/13/2002
• Doc Name: Application review comments and responses
• Section_Exhibit Name: Illustration 17 through 19
• Media Type: D
• Archive: No

concentrations are entirely of aboriginal remains, one entirely recent, and two
contain both aboriginal and recent materials. The site lies on both sides of an
existing road and mee.sures approximately 720 m by 70 m. Cultural materials
evident on the site include biface thinning flakes, pressure flakes, deer
incisors, burnt bone, and uncommon items such as different colors of obsidian
and Olivella shell beads. Artifacts included aboriginal pottery, chalcedony and
quartzite projectile points, evaporated milk cans, food and tobacco cans, coffee
cans, corral rail a, and four shell buttons. Ceramics found in two of the
artifact concentration areas are thought to be of Fremont origin, possibly
dating back to A. D. 700.
5RH 859 is unique in the area because of the finding
differently colored obsidian fragments. Olivella is
seas, such as the Culf of California which is closest
in this area and the different colors found indicate
arena of occurrence; black obsidian from Utah, Idaho,
and northwestern Wyoming; red-brown and black banded
Arizona, Utah, California, and eastern Oregon.
of olivella shell beads and
found only in warm tropical
Obsidian does not occur
contact with the known
south central Colorado,
obsidian from northern
The presence of obsidian materials and Olivella shell indicate the presence of a
trade network. This Site offers a unique opportunity to study trade in Fremont
and later peoples. It offers to provide information important to prehistory of
a nature very poorly documented for this area in past archaeological efforts.
5RB 922 is a large site on a northwest-southeast ridge separating two
tributaries of Red Wa:ah, west of 5RB 859. The site has been the locus of heavy
collection activity prior to inventory and two hearths in the central portion
have been excavated by looters.
The central and southern portion of the site contain twenty-one hearths. The
eastern portion of the site hoe three dense concentrations of tiny flakes, one
concentration also yielded two faceted glass beads dating to the late eighteenth
century. The western txo-thirds of this site shows evidence of intensive
collecting by looters, while the eastern part appears essentially undisturbed,
probably due to the tiny size of the surface deposits.
The fire hearths of tY.~.is site have great potential for yielding infoct¢ation
important to the prehistory and history of the area. These hearths offer
materials by which to date various occupations of the site, to reconstruct
earlier environments, and to learn more of the diet of the inhabitants. The
beads indicate a relationship between the aboriginal population (probably Ute)
and probably Spanish traders. Certain pottery from the site hsa been identified
as possibly being Tusayan white, which is an Anasazi pottery from northern
Arizona. This site may also yield important information on the protohistoric-
historic Ute and their relationship with the Spanish.
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At the time of a meeting held on December 12, 1979, at the Colorado State BLM
Office attended by representatives of the BLN Colorado State, Craig District,
and White River Area Offices, the Utah State BLM Office, and the BLM Richfield, •
Utah EIS Office, and Nickens and Associates, it was decided that testing of
these sites was not appropriate at this time. Hoxever, each of the sites
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