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<br /> <br />because there are larger amounts of data to analyze. Sites in <br />the vicinity of the project area (primarily on the Fort Carson i <br />military reservation), have been associated with the Apishipa <br />Phase, while others (Further to the east) have been identified <br />with the Upper Republican or Buick Phase. Both of these cultural ~ <br />maniFestations are seen as being inFluenced by the Plains Village <br />tradition to the east and southeast, by either migration or <br />indirect diffusion of cultural traits, tier et a1.C1990) provide <br />a discussion of this complexity. Characteristics of the Middle <br />Ceramic Period are: a wider variety of architectural Forms, i <br />possibly with perishable superstructures; small,triangular i <br />projectile paints with side notches or un-notched; pottery with <br />finer cord-markings that may be smoothed over; a variety of bone <br />artifacts; and abundant groundstone. While hunting-gathering, <br />particularly bison hunting, continued to be the dominant <br />subsistence mode, the increasing number and size of architectural <br />Features suggest a semi-sedentary population that may have been <br />becoming more dependent on maize horticulture. <br />- Late Ceramic Period: ca. S00 t^ 200 B.P.CA.O. 1500 to <br />1800). Also known as the Protohistoric, this period begins with <br />the earliest contacts between the native populations and <br />Europeans, and ends with European/White American domination ^E <br />the region. During this period, native populations acquired the <br />horse, and the classical Plains Horse culture flourished. Also <br />during this period, we are able to identiFy historic tribes; <br />among those tribes that utilized the region ace Cin chronological <br />order): Apache, Comanche, Cheyenne/Arapaho, and Ute. <br />7 <br />