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• probably indicates short-term occupation. The largest amount <br />To summarize this previous research, material from the <br />Archaic through protohistoric or historic has been recovered. <br />Sites are open camps, lithic workshops, and rock shelter/ <br />• rockart, generally located rear passes or saddles, sage <br />flats above drainages, or in shel~ers above drainages. <br />North acing slopes exhibit a lack of aboriginal occupation. <br />of material was discovered at pass and saddle locations, and <br />this exhibited the heaviest use-wear. Least likely areas of <br />site location were found to be north-facing slopes with a <br />50% or larger grade and homogeneous topography. A suggested <br />possibility is the utilization of the Yampa Basin as a route <br />between, or an area of cultural contact with, the Great <br />Basin and the Plains. If contact between these culture <br />areas took place, this is one of the most likely routes due <br />to the relative ease of travel. <br />Foster (1976) recorded two sites in the Routt National <br />Forest north of Steamboat Springs, representing short-term <br />use as hunting camps or migration camps. No diagnostic <br />material was recovered from the sites, but a late Woodland <br />projectile point and a potsherd of protohistoric to historic <br />age were recovered. The potsherd was probably Ute. No <br />sites were discovered in forested areas. <br />• McNamara (1978) reports on coal lease surveys about <br />six miles to the southeast of the study area (see Map 5). One <br />aboriginal site and two isolated finds were recorded. No <br />diagnostic material was located. The Trout Creek area is <br />characterized as exhibiting a general paucity of cultural <br />resources. This is attributed to the presence of more favor- <br />able locations or the .presence of heavy ground cover which <br />obscures the sites. <br />Kranzush and Gordon (n.d.) recorded a rockart and <br />possible rock shelter site just to the north of the study <br />area and within the buffer zone of the Seneca II-W Mine of <br />Seneca Coals. The rockart is provisionally identified <br />as Ute. <br />17 <br />