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<br />feature in site SRB2929, located in the Piceance Basin of <br />northwest Colorado. A calibrated date of A.D. 1350+85 (580+80 <br />BP, Beta-37819) resulted from the processing of the carbon <br />sample. <br />At the Pioneer Point Site, located in the Curecanti <br />National Recreation Area, Uncompahgre Brownware ceramics <br />(micaceous and non-micaceous tempered) were also recovered and <br />dated. Over seven hundred sherds were recovered. These were <br />associated with features dating ca. A.D. 1476, 474+70 B.P., <br />and A.D. 1466, 484±80 B.P. (Dial 1989:19). Desert Side- <br />notched and Cottonwood projectile points were also found at <br />the site. <br />Diagnostic of the Ute occupation in western Colorado are <br />small tri-notched points or side-notched points having a <br />concave base, called Desert Side-notched, and narrow unnotched <br />points, referred to as Cottonwood Triangular. Besides the <br />Pioneer Point Site, two other single component sites found in <br />west-central Colorado and east-central Utah containing these <br />point types have been dated. Site SME5997, an open campsite <br />on Glade Park, produced a C-14 date of ca. A.D. 1410 (Conner <br />and Piontkowski, in progress). Site 42GR2236, an open <br />• campsite located near Moab, yielded a date of ca A.D. 1280 <br />(Reed 1990). Metal points were a fairly recent addition to <br />the projectile types and probably do not date earlier than the <br />1800's. <br />Campsites that the Utes occupied within the past 100 to <br />200 years often have remains of small teepees or frameworks <br />for skin coverings, and wickiups, small brush- or bark-covered <br />structures. Amore permanent cultural manifestation of the <br />Utes is their rock art. Their rock art adorns many canyon <br />walls and boulders. <br />Historic EuroAmericans homesteaded the tract of land <br />proposed for mining. It was opened for homesteading around <br />the turn of the century and the remains of several dugout <br />storage units attest to the development. Irrigated farming <br />and cultivation was attempted across much of the mesa top <br />within the Phase I development area. These early attempts at <br />settlement were abandoned, however, by about 1925. Since then <br />the area has been grazed by cattle. Large cattle drives came <br />through this area from Paradox Valley to Lone Cone Mountain <br />(Dave Andrews, personal communication). <br />• <br />9 <br />