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<br />• <br />L J <br />a) <br />c) <br />i <br />/~ <br />it . <br />\\ <br />Figure 2. End scrapers that were collected from sites <br />5MN3763, SMN3764, and as isolated find SMN3770. <br />b) <br />Discussion <br />Although not occupied continuously, the project area <br />seems to have offered an attractive hunting, gathering and <br />foraging environment to prehistoric aboriginals for the past <br />six millennia. The culturally diagnostic materials located <br />during the survey indicate at least occasional use and/or <br />occupation by peoples of the Archaic, Formative and Ute <br />cultural traditions in this area. Diagnostic projectile <br />points and tools suggest that occupation and use of the <br />project area dates from about 3000 B.C. to A.D. 1800, but site <br />testing is necessary before definite cultural/temporal <br />assignments can be made. This study has provided an <br />opportunity to expand the present data base concerning the <br />prehistoric occupation of the San Miguel area in particular, <br />and the Southern Rocky Mountains in general. <br />In order to understand the function and role of these <br />sites in the larger context of aboriginal cultural systems, it <br />is necessary to define the logistical organization of the <br />groups who occupied them. It is expected that the sites <br />functioned either as residential camps in a biseasonal, <br />transhumant settlement pattern, such as that documented for <br />18 <br />