Final Report of a Class III Cultal Resources Inventory of Potential Coal Production Areas in North Park, Jackson County, Colorado

摘要

At the request of the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) and under a contract administered by the Department of the Interior, the Department of Anthropology at the University of Colorado conducted an archeological survey during the 1977 and 1978 field seasons on 25,100 acres of land administered by BLM in North Park, Jackson County, Colorado. The purpose of the survey was to provide a data base that could be used to assess the impact of possible coal mining operations on the cultural resource of the area inventoried. A total of 151 prehistoric sites, 14 historic sites, and 322 isolated finds were recorded during the survey. The artifactual remains recovered from these sites and environmental characteristics of the sites and their catchment areas were used to further define the prehistoric chronology of North Park, construct a typology of prehistoric settlements, and analyze prehistoric subsistence-settlement systems in the Park.