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In a similar fashion, the stratigranhic columns were placed in those • <br />areas of the site which offered the best opportunity to determine the <br />nature of soil deposition on the site. Where cultural materials were <br />located by the test pits, backhce test trenches were subsequently <br />utilized to better define the vertical and horizontal extent of these <br />materials. The test trenches were also used to verify the presence or <br />absence of cultural materials where their existence was expected. Nine <br />test trenches were eventually dug on the site. <br />The cunbined results of these excavations indicated that the location of <br />significant subsurface cultural deposits on the site could be restricted <br />to an area of 90 meters by 80 meters, a substantial reduction from the <br />originally define3 areal extent of 450 meters by 550 meters. This <br />reduced area is located within an irregular shaped locale containing <br />test pit 5 and backhce trenches 1 and 4, and bounded on the west by a <br />bladed mine road, on the north and east by two-tracked dirt reads, and <br />on the south by a stock pond. The exposure of subsurface cultural fey- ' <br />tares in approximate association with diagnostic artifactual materials • <br />resulted in the recognition of at least two cultural cxnq~onents at 5AP139. <br />A total of 11 features was discovered at SKP139, 10 of those defined as <br />hearths or roasting pits and the eleventh being a stone ring of uncertain <br />Smction. Of these 11 features, seven were located subsurface while the <br />r~~~*+~ng four were either surface finds or exposed in a road cut. <br />The number of diagnostic artifacts occurring or found at the site was <br />small. However, their proximity to recognized features or recovery within <br />deposits similar in nature to those in which the features were found <br />allowed interpretations concerning cultural affiliations and chronological <br />plao~nent of the site to be made. A Paleo-Indian, possibly Cooly Ca~lex, <br />affiliation (ca. 9000 B.P.) is strongly supported by the presence of two <br />Scottsbluff Type II points (surface) and the midsection of a probable <br />Paleo-Indian artifact (subsurface). The uniforniity of subsurface loca- <br />tions (approximately 50 om belay ground surface) for the majority of • <br />18 <br />