Cultural Resources Inventory of the Dry Goat Fire Salvage Sale, Mariposa County, Stanislaus National Forest

摘要

In March 1988, Archaeological/Historical Consultants conducted an intensive archaeological reconnaissance of 38 cut units within the Dry Goat Fire Salvage Sale of Stanislaus National Forest. Acreage surveyed comprised approximately 1050 acres. The project area was burned during the 1987 Stanislaus Complex Fire. After the fire, Stanislaus National Forest Service personnel found unrecorded sites and expanded site boundaries of recorded sites within areas that had been previously surveyed. Thus, although portions of the Dry Goat Fire Salvage Sale had been previously surveyed, it was determined that a new reconnaissance was in order. Prior to the 1988 survey, four previously recorded sites, two historic and two aboriginal, were known to be located within or very near the specific cut units. During the reconnaissance, three of these were relocated and one (an aboriginal site) was not relocated. In addition, four new aboriginal sites and three historic, mining-related sites were found and recorded in or just outside cut unit boundaries. Three aboriginal isolates and two recent areas of cultural deposition were also located.