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<br />36 CFR 65 and 36 CFR 66 provide standards for the conduct of <br />significant and scientific data recovery activities. Finally, <br />Title 36 CFR 60.6 establishes the measure of significance that <br />is critical to the determination of a site's NRHP eligibility, <br />which is used to assess a site's research potential: <br />The quality of significance in American history, <br />architecture, archaeology, and culture is present in <br />districts, sites, buildings, structures, and objects of <br />State and local importance that possess integrity of <br />location, design, setting, materials, workmanship, <br />feeling, and association, and a) that are associated with <br />events that have made a significant contribution to the <br />broad patterns of history; or b) that are associated with <br />the lives of persons significant in our past; or c) that <br />embody the distinctive characteristics of a type, period, <br />or method of construction, or that represent the work of <br />a master, or that possess high artistic values, or that <br />represent a significant and distinguishable entity whose <br />ca~onents may lack individual distinction; or d) that <br />have yielded, or may be likely to yield, information <br />important in the prehistory or history. <br />• In each prehistoric site evaluation, category "d)" was used as <br />the measure of significance. <br />A moderate approach was used in making the site <br />evaluations. This approach reflects a restraint in the <br />interpretation of the evaluative criteria while not allowing <br />common pitfalls to occur. As the National Park Service (n.d.) <br />has pointed out, "any archaeological resource is potentially <br />eligible if one can legitimately argue that it is likely to be <br />associated with a cultural pattern, process, or activity <br />important to the history or prehistory of its locality, the <br />United States, or humanity as a whole, provided its study can <br />contribute to an understanding of that pattern, process, or <br />activity." Pitfalls occur when sites are judged significant <br />by their size, complexity, and.age; that is, those that are <br />large, multicomponent, older sites are considered more <br />significant than the small single component variety. <br />Most of the sites recorded appear to be quite large, but <br />they are generally broad distributions of few artifacts with <br />concentrations that probably represent small encampments. <br />These sites may represent single, rather dispersed, <br />encampments or, more likely, several short-term smaller camps <br />occupied at various times over many years. If the sites are <br />• horizontally stratified as suspected and the concentrations <br />11 <br />