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The sites repre:>enting this exploitation are generally <br />architectural (P4cNamara 1978). • <br />There are two sites to the northwest of the <br />study area which are not Listed on the National Register <br />of Historic P1ac:es. Mount Harris, less than five miles <br />away, was named for George Harris by the Denver and Salt <br />Lake Railroad in 1914. Hayden, about eight miles away, <br />was originally :started as a trading post in 1874. In <br />1878, it became the county seat of Routt County, though <br />the county seat was moved to Hahns Peak in 1879 due to <br />a threatened Indian attack. A postoffice was opened in <br />1882. The townsite was laid out by W.T. Walker in 1894, <br />and established as a town in 1908. <br />Culture Areas <br />This part of Colorado lies between four culture <br />areas:the ~brthwestern PLains, the Central Plains, the <br />Great Basin, and the Southwest (see Map 4). Southwestern • <br />material is distinctive typologically and very unlikely <br />to occur this far north. Northwestern Plains and Central <br />Plains materials are quite similar typoLogicalLy, and <br />the differences will not be considered. However, there <br />is a great deal of similarity between some Great Basin and <br />Plains material, which can make the determination of <br />cultural affiliation quite difficult. <br />Early Archaic Hawken side-notched projectile <br />points typologically identical, occur in both Great Basin <br />and Northwestern Plains. Stemmed, indented based points <br />from the Great Basin (Pinto and Elko eared) and Plains <br />(Duncan-Hanna) are typologically similar artifacts. <br />Small corner-notched projectile points from both the <br />Fremont and Plains-Woodland cultures are very similar or <br />undistinguishable (Berry and Berry 1975; Irwin-Williams <br />and Irwin 1966; Ward-Williams and Foster 1976). Desert <br /> <br />side-notched projectile points from the Great Basin are iden- • <br />tical to Plains side-notched points (Berry & Berry 1975). The <br />14 <br />