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11 <br />Generating Company in 1985. The corridor passed near <br />• the current project area. They recorded five historic <br />sites, three prehistoric sites and one isolated find. <br />One site, SRT487, was thought to possibly be eligible <br />for the NRHP and monitoring of construction activities <br />~ at that location was recommended (Conner and Langlon 1985). <br />The only previously recorded cultural resource in the <br />immediate vicinity of the current project is SRT909, which <br />is located in the SE1/4SE1/9NW1/4 of Section 6, T.5N., <br />__ R.86W. This is an isolated find consisting of a single <br />white/brown chert secondary flake, recorded by Goodson <br />and Associates in 1984. It was assessed as being not <br />eligible for the NHRP. <br />4.2• SUMMARY OF REGIONAL CULTURE HISTORY <br />In terms of prehistory, regional cultures can be discussed <br />- within the Paleo-Indian (ca. 10,000 to 5500 B.C.), Archaic <br />(5500 B.C. to A.D. 500), Formative (A.D. 500 to 1300), <br />and the ProtoHistoric stages (Guthrie et al. 1984; Grady <br />1984). During the Historic period, after ca. A.D. 1590, <br />the area can be discussed in terms of several temporal/ <br />political/economic themes, including Early Exploration <br />and the Fur Trade (1769-1876), Native American-Euro-American <br />• Contact (1760-1889), Coal Mining (1870-1995), Early Transpor- <br />tation and the Railroads (1859-1939), Ranching and Farming <br />(1859-1945), Settlements (1869-1915), Recreation and Tourism <br />(1865-1945), and Federal Activity (1890-1945) (hietils 1989; <br />Husband 1984). <br />Faleo-Indian sites are relatively rare in the project <br />vicinity, with most occurrences from this stage reported <br />as isolated finds. Only one site in the region, SRB726, <br />has yielded a radiocarbon date (7290 B.C.) which can be <br />assigned to Paleo times, according to Grady (1984). Site <br />5RT139 in the Seneca II mine area, just west of the current <br />project, has a Cody complex component (Hand 1980). On <br />the eastern plains of Colorado the Paleo-Indian stage <br />is characterized by sites where kills of extinct forms <br />of mega-fauna are found associated with large lanceolate <br />spear points. Of the 18 Paleo-Indian sites reported by <br />Grady (1984) in northwest Colorado, four are lithic scatters, <br />four are campsites and only one is a kill. Hand (1960) <br />believes the Cody component at SRT139 may show evidence <br />of plant processing activities. <br />The Archaic stage is known for a more generalized hu~iting <br />and gathering subsistence pattern, with a change in projectile <br />point technology to dart forms. The presence of hearths <br />and grinding stones reflects the use of wild plant foods, <br />• and there was a marked resemblance between trends on the <br />Colorado Plateau and the Desert Culture described for <br />