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Midwest Archeological Center personnel and local Colorado Archaeological Society and National Park Service volunteers completed a second field season of pedestrian inventory and evaluation along the shoreline of Blue Mesa Lake in Curecanti National Recreation Area, Colorado.

Conducted in the spring of 1992 at the time of the lowest lake level, the inventory covered approximately 164 ha (406 ac), and focused on land along the south shore of Blue Mesa on either side of Middle Bridge between Sapinero and Cebolla Creek. Investigations also took place at the west edge of the Elk Creek Campground, in Kezar Ravine, and at 5GN164 a short distance west of Iola. Inventory personnel examined eroding shoreline between the 2,292 m (7,520 ft) maximum pool level and the 2,282 m (7,485 ft) contour. and also inventoried adjacent hillsides above the erosion zone.

Eight previously unrecorded prehistoric and historic archeological sites were identified in 1992. and the boundaries of four other known sites were revised following their reexamination.

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