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censer ~:e;etatio-: co•aer ti:a;; `hat fot:ac in sectio~~ ?0, althoush <br /> <br /> s.~ec'_es are the same. There i s eviar_;:c^ <br />_ of past to ~~;::~ fir. .fie <br />_ <br />y <br />. ~rea, which probably accounts (i^. pa=t) fe:• the hip,;.e. censit <br /> c_ oai:brush and c:oody shrubs. Elevation in bath areas ranges <br /> fro:., b;80 to 7040 feet. <br />~3,C'r.?:OLOGICi_L 3:.CKGRO~T:D <br />The ~e::era1 area of the Chi^,aey ;t.ecn Cual ?,fine has wicnessed <br />h•.:•~a*: occupatie:: or u*_ilizati.on fc: at least the last 5000 years. <br />An 1nCET1S1Ve arCneOloglCal Sal'Jag°_ p3'OJeCt .ln the ;:avajo Reser- <br />vcir area (Eddy 1972) identified fear cultural tradit'_ens which, <br />nor the most part, are apalicable to the project area. B:-ief:y, <br />these cultural traditions are the Desert (5000 B. C. to 500 B.C.), <br />the Pueblo (A. D. 1 to A. D. 1000-1050), the ':vavajo (A.:). 1550-'_775), <br />and the Spanish Arerican (1bCG to present). .he single occurrance <br /> cf a Folsom projectile point at Navajo Reser•~oir indicate=_ that <br />-- the area has seen hu.•nan utilization for perhaps as long as 9000 <br />years ago. Ir. the immediate area of ti:e ui:,e a distinctive and <br />localized expression o: Chacoa^ Anasazi (Pueblo) settlement has <br />recently led Eddy (1977) to define t:,e Chir:•,ne;• Roch Fhase, dating <br />from about A.D. 925 .to 1125. Edd•~ has interpreted this Phase as <br />a colonization of the Caity-~ey oclc area by a grcup ui ~•~le priests <br />:ro.~ Chace Canyon, a nrehistcric ct:itu_al ce^.ter 'oc:~ted 90 :::files <br />to the southwest in 1\TCw MCXiCO. 3Casons fo. the establishment <br />aid snbsequer.t abandonment of this colen;• rer:.ain obsc\:re. In- <br />teres_in&ly, SOP.'.C rituals 3t tnC :'OdErn T30S Fueble fir. 1~E:a `fie:•:ico <br />°.CClf'_Cally refCr 1;0 C::i,-r..c'',: ..:~.. (LC6 19.7). <br />.1:-cncoloCical research fir. -he area of Chirne_~- Foe=: ar~d Piedra <br />