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26 Class X Inventory, Colowyo's Collotn Mitie Project <br />(40 x 40 -m) area or by a single artifact within a depositional area with potential for subsurface <br />artifacts or features. A single feature without associated artifacts was recorded as a site. Artifacts <br />that did not meet the site criteria described above were recorded as isolated finds (117s). All lithic <br />tools encountered during the Class III inventory were sketched and photographed. The material type <br />of all flaked stone artifacts was recorded relative to a standardized list of raw material types <br />established by the BLM Little Snake Resource Area. <br />Upon encountering an archaeological site or IF, a descriptive field form was completed, a sketch map <br />was drawn, and an overview photograph was taken. A datum consisting of a metal spike with an <br />attached aluminum tag inscribed with project /site information was placed at each site. For each site <br />or IF, the appropriate Colorado Cultural Resource Survey Form was completed. No formal test <br />excavations were completed at any of the cultural resources recorded during the Class III inventory. <br />Several sites, however, were probed with limited shovel and auger tests to ascertain soil deposition <br />and the potential for buried cultural material. Prehistoric diagnostic artifacts were collected during <br />the project. <br />In accordance with BLM requests, the 51 previously recorded sites located within the project area <br />were revisited in order to reevaluate each site (personal communication, Hal Keesling, BLM <br />Archaeologist, August 2005). Each previously recorded site was relocated, and where the current <br />location did not match the documented location, the data was updated. The current condition of <br />these sites was assessed and documented. Any major changes, impacts, or new material was <br />documented. Sites that had changed significantly from their original recording were recorded using <br />the same methods outlined above for newly recorded sites. A Colorado Cultural Resource Survey <br />Update Form was completed for each rerecorded site. <br />5.2 HISTORIC RESEARCH METHODS <br />James Lowe served as the project historian/ethnohistorian. Archival research was conducted through <br />the BLM's Colorado State Office in Lakewood to determine how the historic sites discovered or <br />47599 TRCMariah Associates Inc. <br />