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Eligibility and Management Recommendations. This site does not retain integrity. The <br />site sits on a moderate slope at the base of a small knoll and on the edge of a terrace above two deep <br />drainages. Because the site is found in an erosional setting, the cultural material that is present has <br />likely been redeposited to this location or is resting on a deflated surface. There is no potential for <br />buried, intact cultural material, therefore, MAC recommends this site as not eligible for inclusion <br />on the NRHP. No further work is recommended. <br />5RT2741(MM8932) <br />Site Description. This newly recorded, prehistoric, open lithic scatter is located at the <br />northern end/top of a long, low north/south-trending ridge/hill. It is bounded on the east by a broad, <br />unnamed, intermittent, north-flowing tributary of Grassy Creek and on the west by a shallow, <br />intermittent drainage. Deposition on the hill top is aeolian and may reach depths of 10-20 cm. <br />Sediments are eroded and discontinuous to the east and west where the ground surface slopes toward <br />the drainages. The site is vegetated by low sagebrush, prickly pear cactus and bunch grasses. <br />The artifact assemblage is a sparse, lithic scatter that includes two bifaces and 23 lithic <br />flakes. The site measures approximately 62 m N/S x 77 m E/W. Biface 1 is a projectile point mid- <br />section with serrated edges manufactured from white chert. Similar point types date to the mid- <br />Holocene and are typically associated with Middle Archaic assemblages. Biface 2 is a large tip <br />composed of red and brown chert. The flakes include five secondary and 18 tertiary flakes. <br />Materials are primarily white and semi-translucent, white chert with some gray chert, light gray <br />quartzite and red/white chert also found. <br />Eligibility and Management Recommendations. This site may retain integrity. Although <br />the quantity of artifacts is small, cultural materials appear to be concentrated in the area where <br />deposition remains and at the edges of the depositional area indicating that there is a potential for <br />intact deposits below the surface that could provide information important to the prehistory of the <br />area. Therefore, this site is recommended as needs data. If the site will be subjected to physical <br />disturbance from mine facilities, testing and/or data recovery should occur. Assessment of potential <br />effects from subsidence will be evaluated as part of a recommended site condition monitoring <br />program for the mine. Testing or data recovery may be triggered under this program if the potential <br />for site degradation from subsidence is observed during the monitoring program. <br />5RT2742 (MM8934) <br />Site Description. This newly recorded, prehistoric lithic scatter consists of nine flakes and <br />one flake tool. The site is located about 7.5 miles south of the Yampa River in the narrow valley <br />bounded on the west by Hillberry Mountain and the Williams Fork Mountains and on the east by <br />along, high, uplifted ridge. County Road. 27 travels north/south along the valley bottom. The site <br />is located on the east side of the county road at the southern end and near the base of the long, <br />north/south ridge. The artifacts are scattered across exposed sandstone bedrock that is interspersed <br />with small pockets of light brown, aeolian sand. The area is littered with an abundance of sandstone <br />gravels and white sand residuum is eroding out of the small drainages which run along the east and <br />west sides of the site. White, sandstone bedrock outcrops in both drainages. The area is vegetated <br />by low sagebrush, grasses and some sparse mountain mahogany. <br />37