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Montrose. Both were located near the Hotchkiss area on McDonald <br />f Mesa, approximately 12 air miles southwest of Somerset. The first, <br />• during June of 1975, involved the examination of proposed timber sale <br />and chaining properties and vas conducted by Kim Pinkerton, Colorado <br />State University (F:nkerton, personal communication, 1976). Seven <br />prehistoric sites,were located which Pinkerton estimates to have been <br />inhabited since the Archaic Period (approximately 4000 B.C.). No <br />diagnostic artifacts were recorded. <br />During July and August, 1975, Breternitz and Breternitz (1975) <br />conducted investigations of 1297+ acres in the same area. They re- <br />visited the sites first located by Pinkerton and discovered nine <br />additional sites of prehistoric occupation together with six isolated <br />finds. One of these isolated finds was a projectile point described <br />by them as a Duncan-Hanna point (Preternitz and Breternitz, 1975:1). <br />No further description of artifacts recovered from the sites is given <br />• Sn the report. <br />P:c:e extensive investigations have been made in the area of the <br />Uncompahgre Plateaa, located approxlmately 60 air miles to the vest- <br />southwest. Wormington and Lister (1956) first identified the "Uncompahgre <br />Complex" in this region after examining evidence of a hunting and <br />gathering economy concentrated in four rock shelters in l:esa and <br />Montrose counties. Later investigations of the type sites and related <br />localities led Buckles (1971: iii) to conclude that this was a viable <br />cultural element throughout a 10,000 year period and represented <br />"...cne of the largest and most inclusive archaeological sequences <br />established to date for the Archaic slate representations in the <br />western United States." <br />• <br />30 <br />