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categories , such as pottery and rock art , often indicate the <br /> • presence of ideas and influences from outside cultures , <br /> e . g. , the Anasazi to the south and the Fremont to the north <br /> and west . <br /> Although evidence of Anasazi influence is sparse <br /> in the area (a Puebloan shard was recovered in the WCCL <br /> Survey) (Hibbets et al . 1978) , sites of the Fremont culture <br /> have been identified in the northern portions of the region. <br /> The Fremont group appeared about A.D . 700 and have been <br /> associated with pithouse-like structures and aboveground <br /> masonry; they also grew crops , notably corn and squash , <br /> while still depending on hunting and gathering . This <br /> horticultural lifestyle continued through A. D . 1100 , when <br /> • they returned to an archaic hunting-gathering way of life . <br /> (With the data available at this point , it is not known why <br /> the Fremont people abandoned horticulture . ) <br /> The nomadic Ute cultures , predominant in west- <br /> central Colorado during protohistoric and historic periods , <br /> most likely succeeded the Fremont . Evidence of early, Ute <br /> occupation of the area consists of several wickiup sites and <br /> numerous pieces of rock art panels depicting horses and <br /> other items of Euro-American origin (Wheeler , 1979 ; Anderson <br /> and Henss , 1979) . The presence of transportable Euro- <br /> American artifacts in Ute sites implies later manifestations <br /> of the culture . By 1776 , when the Dominguez-Escalante <br /> expedition transected the region, the Ute were in frequent <br /> 3 <br />