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t~ 31 <br /> Contract Archaeology, University of Northern Colorado between <br /> 1977 and 1979 (Lutz and Hunt 1979). Using a proportional <br /> stratified random sample design, a 10 percent sample of 63 <br />l~ quarter section units (160 acres in each unit) was selected from <br /> five ecological zones and intensively inventoried. The survey <br /> recorded 212 sites, of which 195 were selected for further <br /> analysis. <br /> By examining the physical location and internal characteristics <br /> of each site, Lutz and Hunt (1979) were able to define several <br />( site types and to determine how these sites are distributed <br /> across the landscape. In other words, they generated a <br /> predictive model of prehistoric settlement for this region. <br />~ Their results are pertinent to our study because several of their <br /> sample units are found within three or four miles of the project <br /> area and the environmental situations are very similar. <br />i The other useful study is a cultural resources inventory of 920 <br />acres near Segundo, Colorado, about 8 km (5 mi) east of the <br />project area. This survey of lands that were to be affected by <br />coal mining activities was conducted in 1983 by Nickens and <br />Associates for Wyoming Fuel Company (Tucker 1983). The survey <br />located and recorded 45 cultural resources localities, including <br />36 sites and nine isolated finds. The physical locations and <br />characteristics of these sites were examined closely to determine <br />zones of lesser to greater site density. The Lutz and Hunt <br />(1979) study was also used to generate predictions about the <br />number of prehistoric sites in a larger area of over 25,000 acres <br />that surrounds the immediate impact area. <br />R88IILT8 <br />The previous chapters have established the natural and cultural <br />.. contexts for an interpretation of historic and prehistoric <br />settlement patterns in the project area, and outlined the methods <br />I by which those patterns can be discerned. It remains now to <br />I~ compile these results into a coherent format, which will be <br />useful for planning purposes. Historic and prehistoric resources <br />are discussed separately. <br />HISTORIC RESOURCES <br />:, Site Files Search Results <br />The site files search requested of the CHP-OAHP determined that <br />one historic survey had been completed in the vicinity of the <br />''' project area and that three sites have been recorded, two of <br />which are historic. The single survey is a cultural resources <br />~_;;, inventory of Colorado State Highway 12 between Trinidad and <br />Walsenburg that the CDOH conducted in cooperation with the CHS <br />and the Mined Land Reclamation Division (Pearce 1988). As <br />described in more detail above, this survey recorded 37 historic <br />