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• The first stntctural rem;tins found in the Curecanti Recreational Area were uncovered <br />at SGN30-1/"_'OS of the Glk Creek Development. This stntctural lecture appeared as a shallow <br />oval charcoal- and burned clay-tilled basin that measured appro.eimately 3 0 to 3.5 meters in <br />diameter, it dated ca. 31SSf90 13.C. No cvidrnce o(post molds nor interior or exterior <br />structural supports was found in the feature although burned pole-impressed clay was <br />present--indicative of some son of superstructure (Euler and Stiger 1931: 47-57). At site <br />SGN247, pole-impressed, burned-clay pieces were recovered from Feature 19 that dated <br />;300190 B.P., ca. 1680 B.C. l~hese may be the remains of a windbreak or wickiup-like <br />structure similar to one found in the Alkali Creek drainage north of Gunnison or at 5GN 10 <br />in the Curecanti area (]ones 19SG:170-173). <br />At the Alkali Creek site the remains ofu wickiup dated 40G5~_380 B.P., ca. 2670 <br />Q.C. (Black and Florvath 1981: 175). Site SGN 10 produced evidence of at least two <br />occupations, one between about 3400-3200 B.C. and the other about =1900 to 5200 B.C. A <br />wickiup feature here was dated 393Gf2G0 B.P., ca. 2520 B C., and burned clay <br />concentrations indicating another similar structure was dated 61641210 B.P., ca. 5040 B.C. <br />(Stiger 1981:57). A storage cist was also found at this site and was probably associated with <br />the more recent occupation. Another burned clay concentration was found at SGN53 (Jones <br />1986:33); it was affiliated with a hearth that yielded a date ofG820t130 (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--10 cm) surface structures and a burial site, SCA 125, near Dotsero. Nothing <br />was recorded within the stntctures; however, a burial found in an adjacent crevice yielded a <br />C-14 date of ca. 1180 B.C., two lame corner-notched knives, bird and dog remains, and <br />rabbit bone beads and an awl {Eland and Gooding l980). <br />A pithouse excavated at SGF126, 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 abntptly 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 lame hole at the center of the Floor implied the presence of a superstructure, <br />presumably constructed of wooden poles. Tltis site dated ca. 1100 B.C. and may be a <br />cultural relative of the Dotsero burial site (Gunner and Langdun 1987:7.44). <br />The Sisyphus Rockshelter, located just north of the Colorado River and east of the <br />town of Debeque, contained the nuns of a structural feature of Late Archaic origin dating <br />550 Q.C. (Gooding and Shields 1985). Uncovered were a sandstone slab-lined oblong floor <br />and tluee stone foundation walls. It is assumed that this was a habitation structure, and its <br />presence implies at least asemi-sedentary lifestyle. <br />• 7 <br />