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_ii_i i ii i ii ii iii_i iii <br />Doc Date:12/11/2001 <br />r <br />LJ <br />covered east-sloping, small alluvial basin on the mesa edge at <br />an elevation of 5940 feet. The site consists of a total of 14 <br />artifacts: 2 bifaces, 5 utilized flakes, 1 chunk, 2 manos and <br />a groundstone fragment. The site has been disturbed by <br />chaining and sheet-wash erosion. Because it is in poor <br />condition and is not likely to yield additional significant <br />information, it is field evaluated as not eligible to the <br />NRHP. <br />Site SMN3763 is an diffuse open lithic scatter, yet it <br />contains artifacts indicating an open campsite. The cultural <br />materials are distributed over an area about 275 meters by 90 <br />meters. It is located on a pinyon/juniper covered north- <br />sloping, small, alluvial basin on the mesa top at an elevation <br />of 5980 feet. The site consists of a total of 25 artifacts: <br />1 biface fragment, 2 scrapers (1 collected), 7 utilized <br />flakes, 2 utilized blades, 1 chunk, 3 cores, 5 flakes, 1 mano, <br />1 slab metate and 1 fragmented metate. The collected end- <br />scraper is typical of a type often found in early Ute sites <br />throughout western Colorado (Figure 2). The site has been <br />slightly disturbed by chaining and sheet-wash erosion. The <br />site has no clear focus and no apparent features. Because it <br />has not yielded and is not likely to yield additional <br />• significant information, it is field evaluated as not eligible <br />to the NRHP. <br />Site 5MN3764 exhibits artifact concentrations that are <br />characteristic of camping and lithic tool production. The <br />cultural materials are distributed over a broad area which <br />measures 240 meters by 30 meters and follows the edge of the <br />mesa top at elevations between 5980 and 6020 feet. Avery low <br />density lithic scatter is spread over most of the site area <br />but there are two distinct loci. Locus A contains 1 end- <br />scraper (collected), 4 chert flakes, and 1 large quartzite <br />core. The collected end-scraper is typical of a type often <br />found in early Ute sites throughout western Colorado (Figure <br />2). Locus B is a lithic reduction area that includes 25+ <br />quartzite flakes and l chert flake. The remainder of the site <br />yielded only a chopper and 4 flakes. <br />The site is disturbed by an existing road, historic land <br />cultivation and erosion. It has not yielded nor is it likely <br />to yield additional significant information, thus it is field <br />evaluated as not eligible to the NRHP. <br />Site SMR3765 is an historic root cellar located on the <br />interior of the mesa top. It measures about 90 feet ~-W by 20 <br />feet N-S. Although the roof is gone, roof support poles <br />. remain. The site apparently served as a crop storage area <br />14 <br />