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<br />• <br />i along a road to the Empire Energy Mine. The location of the site <br /> is given as Sw; of Section 31, T6N, R91w, Round Bottom 7~' Quad. <br />The main themes depicted are horse riders with shields, head- <br />dresses, and bows and arrows, and several representations of <br />deer, bison, and mountain sheep (Breternitz 1972:6-7). The rock <br />art is identified as the work of the Utes and the presence of <br />horses indicates a date no earlier than the 1680's (cf. discus- <br />sion of Stewart's hypothesis in Section 4.1.3). The site was <br />visited during the present investigation, but little evidence of <br />the motifs described by Breternitz remains. All that could be <br />seen was one spiral drawn in red hematite and a few red splotches <br />in other areas. In the three intervening years, vibration from <br />• trucks using the mine road and/or activities of pothunters have <br />/ <br />f obliterated some excellent examples of rock art that had sur- <br /> vived essentially intact for the previous several hundred years. <br />A few pictographs of the same general nature as the <br />rock art at 5MF289 were found at the nearby site 5MF281/436 and <br />are also identified as having been made by Utes. One may not <br />infer, however, that the artifacts also found at the site are <br />Ute since there was no stratigraphic association between the two. <br />One site, SMF362, was located by E. A. Jackson in 1974 <br />during a preliminary assessment of the archeological resources of <br />the railroad right-of-way and was recorded during the present <br />investigation as IF17 since little cultural material could be <br />obser•:ed on the surface. <br />• It was discovered only recently that Calvin Jennings <br /> <br />conducted an archeological inventory of Bureau of Land Management <br />