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• <br />SUMMARY AND CONCLUSIONS <br />During this cultural resource inventory, four <br />aboriginal sites, one historic site, three aboriginal <br />isolated artifacts, and one historic isolated artifact <br />were Located. Three sites (5RT139, 5RT142, SRT145) are <br />aboriginal campsites, and one (5RT147) is an aboriginal <br />biface manufacture site. 5RT146, the historic site, is <br />probably a spring house, associated with historic Euro- <br />American water procurement. <br />The presence of material indicative of several ex- <br />tractive and/or maintenance activities was used to infer <br />that at Least short-term occupation of the campsites took <br />place. These activities include: primary core reduction, <br />secondary core reduction, tertiary core reduction, biface <br />manufacture, pressure flaking (tool finishing or reju- <br />venation), cutting, scraping, vegetable food processing, <br />• and hunting or meat procuring. <br />These activities were divided into tasks, and the <br />presence of three or more tasks was used to define a camp- <br />site (base camp). The sequence of tool manufacture (core <br />reduction, biface manufacture, and pressure flaking) was <br />a task. Meat processing and cutting were considered one <br />task. Cutting can be evidence of either a maintenance <br />(manufacture) or extractive (meat processing) activity, <br />but was lumped in this case into extractive activities. <br />Scraping and food processing were considered discrete tasks. <br />Hunting was also considered a discreet task, and was <br />defined by the presence of projectile points. <br />Therefore, 5RT139 was defined as a campsite by the <br />presence of scraping, hunting, and tool manufacture tasks. <br />Site 5RT142 was defined as a campsite by the presence of <br />vegetable food preparation, Lithic manufacture, and <br />• scraping tasks. Site 5RT145 was defined as a campsite <br />by the presence of cutting, scraping, and lithic manu- <br />facture. <br />33 <br />