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With the assistance of local volunteers and National Park Service and Bureau of Land Management resource management trainees, personnel from the Midwest Archeological Center completed inventory of a narrow band of exposed shoreline in the upper third of Blue Mesa Lake in Curecanti National Recreation Area in western Colorado. The inventory examined land exposed between the 7,520 ft maximum pool level and the 7,510 ft level. Two previously unrecorded sites were identified, and the boundaries of 11 other known sites were expanded. Nine additional radiocarbon assays were obtained from hearth charcoal which further document heavy use of the area between 8,000 and 4,000 B.P. Faunal and macrofloral data identified in hearth fill indicate the presence of Pinyon and antelope.

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