2011-06-15_PERMIT FILE - C1981038 ‎(2)‎

• Permit No: C1981038
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• Doc Date: 6/15/2011
• Section_Exhibit Name: Volume 9B Archaeology Appendix Table of Contents Part 1
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1,11 Grim, al Ile trnrr,F I'n Ji1,~•~~,, Il.vra~iL pinhlrm•. Il.al f~n•. •.-[ol Ihr
• wltvrr units Jlaf uSSaJ aLnvc are Lr, cln was Jc rc J.
a.l Ocarth of exceva tiuu ua ta. Macy of loo na c. rch probl ems dis-
cussed elstwhe re In this ma ru5f l'ip( atrm from Lht Da uClty a( CaCava ltd
da la. Only LS Silts nave had en :rca pl live iqw re mu[rrs or mo rc Cm-
nutra m prute ulocal eac av at ion. C( that total, N wire lac av ated in
tnc early 1960s or ca rl is r. 01 tot 24 srtcs cuavettd in the 1970s and
19EU5, eight nave reports in pre pa rattan and one aDpeery unlikely to
ever na vo a report wn tlu~ Inv It. the encavallons that have 6cen c~m-
pleted and described to Ltcrature have generally been of good Cuelfty,
and have spawned many resca rch qua stlons. Clew, problem-o rien [ed ertava-
tion proj acts are needed to add ress lllest re starch goes lions.
/.2 Chronology, Largely as 6 result of the dearth of eacavatlan data,
the chronology of the culture sequence In the raglan needs refinement.
At present only tight trcC-ring dates enC 56 ra tlioca rbon da [es here Decn
p rrn:cssed. Cunsidering that end rcyfun .may MvC Deen occupf ed to excess
ur 10,000 yce rs, [he de to base 1s Indeed small. Appendix A presents the
chro name [rlc tla tai ob to toed to [ht rig ton. those dates In pa ren toes l5
have been ca lento led Dy [Ills writer Ic hcflitt to comps rab111ty. In
scm< Usti these represent dates [hat ha vc been adjusted with the old
of fWSCA correction factors (Xic bets 1977) to allow for atrno spht rlc fluc-
tuations in C1/ content. In other ca ;es the pa ren [netlctl tla tt reDrt-
sents a B.P. date, calculated to pe runt use oft callLra led date range,
which gfres the range in wM ch there is a 95 De rc ant probeDll sly that
the trot calendar tla to Is rtpresrnted (Klein et al. 1982).
As the nuaa:cr of to ronomct ric da trs in lhd region grows, rC(inemen[
of a re9lontily-sprcf llc Drojec[Ile point segue nee will De possible.
4.7 Settlement Patterns. Aaditlow l arc ha eolo9ical survey is needed
in order W Getter understand prehistoric settlement ya llerns. few
sample-oriented surveys whose oD7 e[lives conctrn rile DrCdit[ien have
been imDleven led in the region. Of these, mast were completra several
years ago and no longer rrpre sent the state-of-the-art peed is live model-
ing. Newer [echo lques, open rmDloyl ng tliscrtminant ana lys is to differ-
entiate site from nonstte locations, have been successfully employed In
ce eta to portions of waste rn Colorado (Burgess el al. 1980; Kenneth
• xvavme, personal comrunlcatlon) and show great promise for the entire
region. Past Inventories o/ large scale have also tended [o avoid
certa In geographical areas, such as tutor valley bottoms and high
e levattons, due to land owne rihip and locattan o! resource developments.
A sample-oriented env entory Cross-tutting all ru ]or enrtron~entaljele-
vatlanal zones In the region would be desirable.
/./ Cultural process. To Oe[e rmine the cultural processes responsible
for else patterns of prehistoric change end conttnulty, edditlonal syn-
chronic and dle[hronic rase+rch Into past ltfeways is needed. PeS Ca rch
[uDics inc lode analysis a( se tt lem<n[ and subsfitence patterns, [echnol-
aSY. dcmog raphy, and Social organ izat ton.
t.5 Oemog ra phy, Yt ry few aDorlg foal Durtals have been discovered in
Matt-Central kuluraJu, mud of to c.r, only tnrce lure aVVa ren(ly oven ade-
qua}cly analyted. Two weer duy Dy anu tru rs at Setn27, and were analy led
by a amper of the Ott Prehis[o ry Pro 7ec[ (Buckles I911:10a0), and one
was eaca va led 1n GL de Park and was analyzed by k'oddhu ry (1970).
1.6 S1lC slg ntf seance. Cvalua[ion of prthiitpriC site Sig nt/ica nee
usually concerns [hd potential of a site to yield important scientific
Info reution. This Is no easy [ask, since sites arc frequently ova lua led
w rlhwt the aid u! sub su r(a ct caploration. fu ether, it U n bd argued that
all sites hey potentially yield Important date; to undoes to nd a hum tl ng
and ga Chering suuslste nee system, for oample, it 1i just as necessary to
knw the na[u rr and dis[rihut ion of 1lmi trd activity sites ei IL Is the
nia re ComplCa IW DIU[ldn 31LCS. flOnCthClC i1, a franewark far Id[n[ilying
pa rtlculd rly inipprlan[ kl[CS can DC dCVC10pCd, which rCflec[s Soma o! [h!
research problems identified in this menu s[ri pt.
(Reed 1989)
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