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• Curator of the Smithsonian Institution. These artifacts <br />are illustrated by photograph (Figures 2 and 3) and <br />drawings which are included with the site forms. To the <br />writer's knowledge, this Scottsbluff point is the only <br />Cody Complex artifact ever recovered as other than an <br />isolated artifact in northcentral Colorado. It was foun3 <br />in backdirt from fence construction, indicating its probable <br />original subsurface provenience. Furthermore, there are <br />thermal spalls on both faces of the blade. Dr. Stanford <br />feels that a brush fire would not have heated the specimen <br />enough to cause these spalls, so a hearth may be nearby. <br />Other observed artifactual material includes almost <br />the entire reduction sequence used in lithic manufacture. <br />Primary flakes, secondary flakes, interior flakes, biface <br />reduction flakes, pressure flakes, and unifacially utilized <br />flakes were observed. <br />On the basis of activities inferable from the arti- <br />• facts, and the size of the site, this was probably a camp- <br />site. The site was probably utilized by more than just <br />Cody Complex peoples, though other diagnostic or datable <br />material will be required to confirm this. <br />The deposition rate is apparently quite rapid, and <br />probably similar to that of nearby survey areas (Wheeler <br />1979: 8). A wooden bucket was observed that was mostly <br />buried due to alluviation (Figure 6). <br />This apparent deposition rate, the relative abundance <br />of artifacts in disturbed areas, and the relative paucity <br />in undisturbed areas, and the presence of a flake 14 cm. <br />below the surface Level are all indications that there is <br />extant subsurface material. <br />The presence of a Cody Complex projectile point, <br />the probability of habitation, and the probability of sub- <br />surface material makes this site quite interesting and <br />. possibly quite important to northwestern Colorado prehistory. <br />25 <br />