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INVENTORY RESULTS <br />The cultural resource inventory discovered five aboriginal sites, five historic sites, and <br />five isolated artifacts of aboriginal affiliation. A description of these sites follows. <br />5RT 120 (T-10) <br />This is a rock art site located on the north side of Hubberson Gulch, where the gulch <br />opens onto Watering Trough Gulch. There is a small cave and large crack in the Williams <br />Fork sandstone, on a relatively steep talus slope above the alluvial floor of The gulch. <br />There is a pictograph panel on either side of the cave/crack, containing prehistoric and <br />historic elements (see sketches with the site form in Appendix 5-I and Figures). <br />Panel I, on the east side of the crack (Photos 5-I and 5-2) contains a historic petroglyph, <br />chop marks perhaps indicating an attempt to remove part of the panel, and a pictor- <br />graph/petroglyph of red, outlined by an etched line shaded blue to black. The lower <br />portion of this element has fallen off and may be buried within the talus. This element is <br />quite faded, and is extremely difficult to see except in late afternoon/evening when the <br />panel is shaded. This panel is difficult to interpret, but it closely resembles a proboscid <br />with a trunk, open mouth, and shoulder hump evident. If it is indeed a proboscid, it is <br />very rare example of late Pleistocene rock ort, probably associated with the Clovis cul- <br />ture. A Clovis rock art panel depicting a proboscid has been recorded in Grand County, <br />Utah (Lindsay 1976). The entire field crew felt that this element was a representation of <br />a proboscid. However, Marcus Grant pointed out the possibility of the element being <br />one-half of a bison skull, with a horn and ear, instead of a trunk and open mouth (the <br />other one-half of the skull would have been on the fallen portion of the element). A soil <br />scientist working in the area stated that the talus slope could have been stable for 10,000 <br />years, so that Clovis rock art could be located with later art. <br />Panel 2, on the west side of the crack, contains more elements. Element A consists of an <br />anthropomorphic figure made of concentric circles, with horns in red pigment, and a <br />series of six tipi-like figures, very faded in blue pigment (tipi-like is not meant to imply <br />that they are representations of tipis, only that they are a large triangle with a smaller <br />one upside down on top--looking somewhat tipi-like). The anthropomorphic figure is <br />similar to the Craig "new-type" petroglyphs in style (McKern 1978, Figure 53B). How- <br />ever, McKern's petroglyph lacks horns, and the picTorgraph at 5RT 120 lacks the legs <br />present on the petroglyph. McKern considers this style to be Ute (Photo 5-3). <br />5-13 <br />