PERMFILE119931

• Permit No: C1996084
• IBM Index Class Name: Permit File
• Doc Date: 8/2/2001
• Section_Exhibit Name: Exhibit 05 Cultural Resources Report 3
• Media Type: D
• Archive: No

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• Canyon between two wide side canyons. The site is situated on a general southwest-facing slope
below a high narrow ridge on which a single dead pinyon is visible. The artifacts generally cluster
in three concentrations. Concentration #1 is located on a small bench in the southeast-most comer
of the site and measures roughly 7 m in diameter. It consists of roughly 20 tan/gray felsite flakes,
mostly secondary and tertiary, and two cores. No ground stone is associated, although two manos
lie roughly I S m northeast. Concentration #2 is located on a small flat bench, just below the top of
the high ridge, on the northwest edge of the site. Artifacts in this area are largely tools, although
three gray felsite tertiary flakes were observed. Tools include two metate fragments, five manos,
a flake scraper, two bifaces, two cores, and a battered quartzite cobble. Between these two
concentrations is a third concentration, lying on the eroded washed slope. Four manos and two Flake
tools were located in this area. Only a couple flakes were scattered outside ofthese concentrations.
Soil on this site is a brown sandy loam containing numerous angular sandstone pebbles and cobbles.
Deposits are colluvial, residual, and slope-washed. Alluvial erosion and sheetwash are the only
disturbances. Vegetation includes oakbrush, pinyon, cactus, low sagebrush, and various grasses.
Although erosional cuts on the site indicate no Holocene deposition and thus little potential
for buried cultural materials, SLA7374 lies within the LCRHL and is recommended to be
contributing to the significance of the district. This site displays a diversity of artifacts as well as
a high ground stone to other artifact ratio and may reflect activities related to the procurement and
initial processing of pinon nut and acorns. However, because SLA7374 falls within the P3 haul road
corridor and had been recommended for cultural resource clearance prior to the creation of the
• landscape (McKibbin 1997a), further field work is recommended only if it can be accomplished
without delaying the construction of the road (McKibbin 1997a:7).
SLA7375 (MM-4780): This prehistoric site was recorded in 1997 during inventory of the
realigned P3 haul road. This lithic and ground stone scatter issituated on asoutheast-trending knoll
or bend in an otherwise flat, wide, side canyon extending north from Jeff Canyon. Artifacts include
five felsite flakes (four of which are tertiary), an endscraper, three sandstone metate fragments, a
complete sandstone metate, and a sandstone mano. Deposits are residual and consist of a brown
sandy loam containing numerous angular sandstone gravels. No depth to these deposits is present,
based on erosional exposures on the site. A trowel test at the datum also revealed a clay which is
eroding bedrock immediately below the surface. Vegetation includes pinyon/juniper, oakbrush,
cactus, and grasses.
Although there is little potential buried cultural material, this site lies within the LCRHL and
is recommended to be contributing to the significance ofthe district. The site contains a high ground
stone to other artifact ratio and may reflect activities related to the procurement and initial processing
of pinon nut and acorns. However, because SLA7375 falls within the P3 haul road corridor and had
been recommended for cultural resource clearance prior to the creation of the landscape (McKibbin
1997a), further field work is recommended only if it can be accomplished without delaying the
construction of the road (McKibbin 1997a:7).
• SLA7482 (MM-4706): This prehistoric site was recorded in 1997 during inventory for the
proposed railroad spur to the Colorado and Wyoming Railroad tracks. This sparse lithic scatter lies
along the south side of the Purgatoire River, in the floodplain north of the mouth of the Lorencito