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Historic Properties Treatment Plan, Colloni Mine, Colorado 40 <br />traditional categories of mano and metate. Small fragments that possess a ground facet but that <br />are too small to classify as either mano or metate fragments will be classified as indeterminate <br />groundstone fragments. Attributes recorded for each groundstone artifact include portion of <br />artifact, dimensions (cm), weight (kg), material type, number of ground faces, intensity of <br />grinding, presence or absence of pecking, and evidence of deliberate shaping, battering, and heat <br />alteration. <br />Hammel-stone Analysis <br />Hammerstones are identified solely on the basis of use damage. Hammerstones are cobbles that <br />are not flaked or ground but that exhibit battering, pitting, and /or crushing on one or more <br />margins. Hammerstones were presumably used to pound, pulverize, or hammer other materials. <br />Isolated flake scars resulting from impact rather than from purposeful reduction may occur on <br />the utilized margin(s) of a hammerstone. This category subsumes specimens used for <br />heavy -duty pounding or pulverizing, generally against an anvil or other solid surface, and <br />cobbles apparently used as hard hammers during percussion flaking. Attributes recorded for <br />these tools include portion of artifact, dimensions (cm), and material type. <br />5.3.3 Analysis of Animal Remains <br />Animal remains recovered from test excavations will be examined by project faunal analyst <br />Russell Richard. Attributes encoded for each bone specimen include faunal taxon, element, <br />portion of the element, maximum length, degree of preservation, and bone size. Sex and age of <br />the animal and cultural modification will also be noted as appropriate. <br />Specimens will be identified to the most specific animal taxon possible. Individual elements <br />are identified to the species or genus level, when possible, based upon discrete morphological <br />traits. Comparisons to identified specimens within the University of Wyoming Comparative <br />Osteology Collection (UWCOC) will aid in species assignation. When species- or genus- <br />47599 TRC Mariah Associates Inc. <br />