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zo <br />• SLA7372 (MM-4775): This prehistoric site was recorded during inventory of the realigned <br />P3 haul road in 1997. This chipped and ground stone scatter lies on a bench on the northern side of <br />Jeff Canyon. An intermittent drainage has cut a channel on the east side of the bench. A shallow <br />intermittent drainage forms the west boundary of the site. The southern boundary is a very steep, <br />rocky drop-off to the east-flowing intermittent drainage at the bottom ofJeffCanyon. A high bench <br />rises to the north. Artifacts include a complete projectile point, three biface fragments (two of which <br />refit), a large basined metate fragment, three complete manos, several quartzite flakes, and <br />approximately 15 gray felsite flakes, the majority of which are tertiary. Soil is a yellow brown sandy <br />clay with numerous angular sandstone pebbles and cobbles. Deposits are residual and colluvial. <br />Vegetation is oakbrush, pinyon, prickly pear, grasses, and low sage. Some depth to the deposits is <br />suspected based on erosional cuts on the site. <br />Two shovel probes were excavated in the colluvial deposits to ascertain their nature and <br />depth. The shovel probes reached bedrock at 30 and 40 curbs. The upper 18 to 30 cm are a dark <br />brown, coazse sandy loam overlying a gravelly clay. No cultural materials were recovered from <br />either probe. <br />This site lies within the LCRHL and is recommended to be contributing to the significance <br />of the district. This site displays a diversity of artifacts as well as a high ground stone to other <br />artifact ratio and may reflect activities related to the procurement and initial processing of pinon nut <br />and acorns. However, because SLA7372 falls within the P3 haul road corridor and had been <br />• recommended for cultural resource clearance prior to the creation of [he landscape (McKibbin <br />1997a), further field work is recommended only if it can be accomplished without delaying [he <br />construction of the road (McKibbin 1997a:7). <br />SLA7373 (MM-4776): This prehistoric site was recorded in 1997 during inventory of the <br />P3 haul road realignment. This lithic and ground stone scatter is situated on a bench about 30 meters <br />north of an east-flowing intermittent stream in Jeff Canyon. The site consists of nine felsite and <br />quartzite flakes and a sandstone mano. The artifacts appear to be concentrated around an erosional <br />cut which bisects the site. No artifacts were observed eroding out of these cutbanks. Holocene <br />deposition is shallow and probably not continuous across the area. Deposits are residual and <br />colluvial, and soil is a light brown sandy loam containing numerous angular sandstone pebbles and <br />cobbles. The fact that artifacts are not exposed in the cutbank indicates little potential for buried <br />cultural material is present. Vegetation is oak brush, grasses, cactus, and pinyon. <br />Although there is little potential buried cultural material, this site lies within the LCRHL and <br />is recommended to be potentially contributing to the significance of the district. The site contains <br />ground stone and may reflect activities related to the procurement and initial processing of pinon nut <br />and acorns. However, because SLA7373 falls within the P3 haul road corridor and had been <br />recommended for cultural resource clearance prior to the creation of the landscape (McKibbin <br />1997a), further field work is recommended only if it can be accomplished without delaying the <br />construction of the road (McKibbin 1997a:7). <br />• SLA7374 (MM-4779): This prehistoric site was recorded in 1997 during inventory of the <br />P3 haul road realignment. This large lithic and ground stone scatter lies on the northern side of Jeff <br />