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33 <br />Binford's mode] describes five types of sites associated with these strategies. Residential <br />bases and locations are common to both. The residential base is the group's residence. Forager <br />residential bases tend to be in or close to the resource patch of interest, and moved frequently in <br />response to changing resource availability or need. Collector residential bases are more centrally <br />located with respect to resource patches, and form the base of operations for the population and the <br />base from which task groups are dispatched and to which they return. Movement of the collector <br />residential base is generally less frequent, and ofren seasonal. Forager and collector residential bases <br />will be very similar, though collector residential bases can be expected to be more visible <br />archaeologically due to longer occupation and greater diversity of activities, including storage. <br />The location is the place of resource procurement or extraction. Limited initial processing <br />may occur here also. Forager locations tend to be scattered and are not typically re-occupied, since <br />foragers come across their resources on an encounter (or accidental) basis. Collector locations may <br />be fewer in number and more intensively or more frequently occupied, since specialized task groups <br />go there for the purposes of procuring larger quantities of a resource. Collectors also work from a <br />better knowledge base about the spatial distribution and occurrence of resources, and may return <br />repeatedly to the same spot if that spot has been productive in the past. <br />The three other site types are specific to collectors, and are direct products oftheir logistical <br />organization. Stations are information-gathering points. Field camps are temporary habitation sites <br />for task groups while on procurement forays away from the residential base. Caches are temporary <br />storage facilities necessitated by the great bulk produced by these task groups. Any ofthe these site <br />types can be overlaid upon one or several of the others, or on residential bases or locations, thus <br />potentially muddling the interpretation of any one occupation. <br />Research Goals <br />Three general goals will guide future work in the landscape: <br />• Recover evidence confirming or refuting the assumption that these sites are the remains of <br />pinon nut and acom procurement activity. <br />• Recover artifact assemblages from a representative sample of sites to be used in establishing <br />site function. <br />• Discover features that might be associated with pinon nut and acom utilization. <br />• Discover and analyze sites that aze not procurement loci, but that can be associated with the <br />settlement system of which the pinon nut and acorn procurement was a part. <br />The first goal, and possibly the most difficult, will be to recover artifacts and sediment <br />samples from features for palynological and macrobotanical analysis, and possible protein residue <br />analysis, to determine what was being processed. The absence of buried cultural components will <br />hamper this effort, but further work may reveal some sites with buried component. And, it maybe <br />possible to analyze surface artifacts under certain conditions and with adequate control. There is <br />some hope that ground stone artifacts, found face down, and especially if a carbonate cast is <br />. developed on the use surface, may prove informative through either pollen or starch analysis, though <br />starches are expected only from atoms and not pinon nuts (PaleoResearch Laboratories, personal <br />communication to the author, April, 1998). Cleazly, any cultural components found in buried <br />