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e ESPEY, HUSTON & ASSOCIATES, INC. • 3.0 RESULTS AND DISCUSSION No prehistoric or historic sites located within the project area aze included in the records of OSAC, the site files of the CDHP, the National Register of Historic Places or the files of the White River Resource Area of the BLM. A portion of the route of the Third Fremont Expedition constitutes the sole site registered on the state register that is located in the vicinity of the surveyed tract (CDHP, 1979)• A review of the published and unpublished reports pertaining to the Acchaeology of the general region resulted in the identification of numerous aboriginal and historic sites. Several surveys have taken place in the Piceance Basin and adjacent azeas, which aze located southwest of the project area. Calvin H. Jen- nings conducted a survey within the Piceance Basin as part of a regional oil shale impact study. A total of 147 sites were recorded in the Piceance Basin, the Douglas • Creek azea and particularly in the Yellow Creek area. Definite evidence for the utilization of the area by Archaic, as well as more recent, aboriginal populations was recorded (Jennings, 1974). A survey of a limited azea in the vicinity of the confluence of Piceance Creek and the White River resulted in the identification of 15 sites. Diagnostics recovered implied that the aboriginal inhabitants of the azea may have been present as early as 10,000 yeazs ago, although the majority of the projectile point styles aze representative of occupation within the last 1,500 yeazs (Buckles, 1974)• A survey conducted by the Laboratorq of Public Archaeology (LOPA) within this same azea and several azeas to the south resulted in the identification of 19 sites, 14 of which had been previously recorded by Buckles in 1974. Supplementarq information obtained from these sites implied that the azea was most intensively occupied in the period from A.D. 800 to the present (Price, 1976). • E-20