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n <br />,~ <br />~ • <br />., .,. <br />Figure 3. view of project area (foreground) overlooking Williams Fork <br />valley. The road up Sulphur Gulch is in the background. Note <br />sloping terrain. View is looking toward the southwest. <br />sites that were located in the general area, two were historic sites, <br />5MF331 and 5MF348, and three, 5MF322, 5MF335, and 5MF343, were open <br />lithic sites with no diagnostic artifacts present. <br />Breternitz (1970, 1972) conducted two archaeological inventories in <br />the area. These surveys resulted in the location of eight previously <br />unknown sites. SMF279, located near the confluence of the Yampa and the <br />Williams Fork River, yielded projectile points that dated between AD 500 <br />and AD 1200 (Breternitz 1970: 5). Sites 5MF281 and SMF289 had petroglyph <br />and pictograph panels depicting men on horseback. These have been <br />attributed to the Ute Indians after Hispanic contact (Breternitz 1972: 29). <br />There is very little data on the archaeology of the Yampa River Basin <br />• and the Williams Fork Mountain region. However, a general overview for <br />the area can be developed from the information collected during the <br />