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', inventory conducted by the University of Colorado in 1971 (Breternitz 1971), and represent some of the first cultural resources officially recorded in Routt County. They were ' not relocated during the current Powers study, and should not be impacted by the proposed actions by Peabody. The literature review indicated that a number of cultural resource investigations have been recently conducted in the project vicinity, resulting in the recordation of several sites outside of, but relatively near to, the project area. In 1979 Western Cultural Resources Management (WORM) inventoried the Seneca II mine permit area and recorded five sites and four isolated finds. Testing at two of these sites (SRT139 and 5RT142) was carried out by WCRM in 1980, and resulted in determining that while site SRT142 was not significant, site SRT139 was eligible for nomination to the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) (Hand 1980). A data recovery program was performed later that year at site 5RT139 by Nickens and Associates (Tucker 1981). Peabody had High Plains Consultants inventory 1.5 miles of access roads and seven 20 by 20 ft drill pad sites in the Seneca II mine vicinity in 1983. This survey recorded three isolated finds (Linnabery and Evans 1983). In 1984 Goodson and Associates inventoried 123 acres east of the Seneca II mine for the Twentymile Coal Company. - They recorded four historic sites, and four prehistoric isolated finds (Killam 1984). A 60 mile long corridor for a transmission line from Hayden to Gore Pass, running south and east of the Seneca II mine, was inventoried in 1985 by Grand River Institute for the Tri-State Generating Company. They recorded five historic sites, three prehistoric sites, and one isolated find (Conner and Langlon 1985). In June, 1987 Powers inventoried 180 acres for the Cyprus Addition and Pond 008 locations at the Seneca II mine for Peabody. One prehistoric isolated find was recorded (Brechtel and Friedman). An inventory of four alluvial well locations adjacent to the Seneca II mine permit area was carried out for Peabody by Powers in September, 1987, with negative results (Friedman 1987). 4.0 STATEMENT OF OBJECTIVES The prehistory of the region can be described in terms of several successive cultural/temporal developmental periods, including the Paleo-Indian (ca. 10,000 to 5500 B.C.), Archaic (ca. 5500 B.C. to A.D. 500), Formative (ca. A.D. 500 to 1500), and Protohistoric stages (Guthrie et al.