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SURVEY PROCEDURES <br />Literature Search and Records Check <br />An intensive search of the Office of the State Archaeologist of Colorado (OSAC), and the <br />Office of the State Historic Preservation Officer (SHPO) was carried out on August 21 <br />and 22, 1979. A search of the records of the Little Snake Resource Area of the BLM was <br />carried out by the Little Snake Resource Area Archaeologist, Sherri Hanson, and re- <br />ported to WCRM, Inc. on August 27, 1979. Both OSAC and the BLM produced identical <br />information, while the SHPO seorch was negative. <br />Seven sites were recorded almost five miles to the northwest of the study area by the <br />Laboratory of Public Archaeology (LOPA) including five aboriginal sites and two historic <br />sites. These were reported in Arthur (1977) and this material is discussed in more detail <br />in the "Previous Research" section. <br />5RT118 was recorded by Kranzush and Gordon just to the north of the study area. This is <br />• a rock art/rock shelter site. The rock art is provisionally assigned to the Ute Tribe. No <br />other sites have been previously recorded within reasonable proximity to The study area. <br />Field Methods <br />The project area received a 100% pedestrian survey. Spacing of the field crew depended <br />upon topography and intuitive assessment of site probability. Ridgetops were surveyed <br />by two to four archaeologists walking five to 20 meters apart in a parallel zigzag fash- <br />ion. In heavy thickets of scrub oak, which occurred frequently on ridgetops, the spacing <br />and zigzag pattern depended in large degree upon game trails, as the thickets are virtu- <br />ally impenetrable in the absence of such trails. Some transects were partially completed <br />on hands and knees. <br />Alluvial bottoms, fans, benches, and sage flocs were surveyed in o similar manner, gen- <br />erally without the interference of dense shrub oak thickets. Steep slopes were tran- <br />sected with spacing up to 35 meters apart, since site probability is very low, and <br />vegetation is very Thick. Rock exposures on steep slopes were given very close attention, <br />however, due to the high probability of rock art and rock shelter sites. Arroyos in rela- <br />Lively flat areas and in some very steep situations, were walked by at least one archaeo- <br />logist and often by two archaeologists. Aspen groves were given a close examination, <br />due to the probability of historic carvings. <br />5-II <br />