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T. 35 S., R. 7 W., accepted October 23, 1998 in the possession of the Air Force Flight association with the 18 human bone T. 38 S., R. 8 W., accepted October 23, 1998 Test Center (AFFTC), Edwards Air Force fragments consist of five Olivella sp. ι Washington Base, CA. shell beads (RECON CAT 163-118, A detailed assessment of the human surface) and one Haliotis sp. shell T. 36 N., R. 42 E., accepted December 4, 1998 ι T. 26 N., R. 13 W., accepted November 23, remains was made by AFFTC fragment (RECON CAT 163-119d, 1998 professional staff in consultation with surface). On Edwards AFB, Olivella sp. representatives of the Chemehuevi shell beads and Haliotis sp.shell If protests against a survey, as shown Indian Tribe of the Chemehuevi generally date to the Gypsum through on any of the above plat(s), are received Reservation, the San Manuel Band of Late Periods (2000 B.C.-A.D. 1770). The prior to the date of official filing, the Serrano Mission Indians of the San second individual is represented by 180 filing will be stayed pending Manual Reservation, the Morongo Band human bone fragments that were surface consideration of the protest(s). A plat of Cahuilla Mission Indians of the collected from a probable cremation will not be officially filed until the day Morongo Reservation, and the Colorado interment in Unit 18 (Locus E). The after all protests have been dismissed River Indian Tribes of the Colorado human bone fragments consist of an and become final or appeals from the River Indian Reservation. orbit fragment, distal metacarpal dissmissal affirmed. SUMMARY: Between 1972 and 1990, fragment (RECON CATι 163-196a), and The plat(s) will be placed in the open human remains representing nine 178 unidentified bone fragments fields of the Oregon State Office, Bureau individuals were recovered from five (RECON CATι 163-196b-d). The artifacts of Land Management, 1515 S.W. 5th archaeological sites on Edwards Air found in association with the 180 Avenue, Portland, Oregon 97201, and Force Base (EAFB). These sites include: human bone fragments include: one will be available to the public as a CA-LAN-1296 (one possible and three unidentified shell fragment (RECON matter of information only. Copies of probable cremations); CA-KER-2060/H CATι 163-196f, surface); 12 unidentified the plat(s) may be obtained from the (one cremation and one inhumation); shell beads (RECON CATι 163-197, 0-10 above office upon required payment. A CA-KER-2241 (one interment unknown cm); one Humboldt dart point (RECON person or party who wishes to protest type); CA-LAN-1158 (one cremation); CATι 163-199, 0-10 cm); and one against a survey must file with the State and CA-KER–796 (one interment, Olivella sp. shell bead (RECON CATι Director, Bureau of Land Management, unknown type). No known individuals 163-201, 10-20 cm). Humboldt dart Portland, Oregon, a notice that they were identified. Associated funerary points and Olivella sp. shell beads are wish to protest prior to the proposed objects include three projectile points diagnostic artifacts of the Gypsum official filing date given above. A (two arrow points and one dart point), Period (2000 B.C—A.D. 500). The third statement of reasons for a protest may be one bone tool, 18 shell beads, and two individual is represented by one human filed with the notice of protest to the modified shell fragments. The cranial bone fragment (RECON CATι State Director, or the statement of ethnohistoric information establishing 163-231a, 10-20 cm). The cranial bone reasons must be filed with the State the relationship between these tribes fragment was excavated from a probable Director within thirty (30) days after the and the Native American human cremation interment in Unit 21 (Locus proposed official filing date. remains and associated funerary objects D). No associated funerary objects were The above-listed plats represent consists of ethnographies, language found with the cranial bone fragment. dependent resurveys, survey and studies, Spanish mission records, oral The estimated date of occupation at subdivision. interviews, and other sources (Earle the CA-LAN-1296 site is 5000 B.C.-A.D. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 1997). No unassociated funerary objects, 1770 based on the presence of Pinto, Bureau of Land Management, (1515 sacred objects, or objects of cultural Gypsum, Saratoga Springs, and Late S.W. 5th Avenue) P.O. Box 2965, patrimony were identified in the Period components (Earle et al. 1997a). Portland, Oregon 97208. collection. Native Americans were not consulted at In 1972, one human cranial bone the time the human remains were Dated December 21, 1998. fragment representing one individual recovered from the CA-LAN–1296 site. Robert D. DeViney, Jr., was recovered from the surface during The human remains were not identified Chief, Branch of Realty and Records Services. legally authorized excavations at the as such until they were examined by Dr. [FR Doc. 99–282 Filed 1–6–99; 8:45 am] CA-LAN-1296 (AVAS-1; EAFB-1000) Rose Tyson of the San Diego Museum of BILLING CODE 4310±33±M site by the Antelope Valley Man during the NAGPRA inventory Archaeological Society (AVAS)(EAFB process. The cultural affiliation of the Historic Preservation Office file 72-A). human remains can not be positively DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR No consultation was done at the time of determined (Campbell et al. 1997). the discovery of the cranial bone Ethnohistoric information, however, National Park Service fragment. The cranial bone fragment indicates that the human remains may ι Notice of Inventory Completion for (ISOCAT 2181; AVAS 1-38a) appears to be affiliated with one of the five tribes Native American Human Remains and have been part of a cremation interment. (Chemehuevi, Kawaiisu, Kitanemuk, Associated Funerary Objects in the No associated funerary objects were Serrano, or Tataviam) who utilized the Possession of the Air Force Flight Test found with the cranial bone fragment. region in historic times (Earle 1997). In 1988, Regional Environmental Center, Edwards Air Force Base, CA This is supported by the site’s location Consultants (RECON) conducted legally in the vicinity of historic AGENCY: National Park Service, DOI. authorized test excavations at CA-LAN- ‘‘Ap’avutsiviat’’ or Buckhorn Springs ACTION: Notice. 1296 and recovered human bone (Earle 1997:59). representing three individuals (Hector et In November 1985, the Base Historic Notice is hereby given in accordance al. 1988). The first individual is Preservation Officer (BHPO), Richard H. with provisions of the Native American represented by 18 unidentified human Norwood, recovered human bone Graves Protection and Repatriation Act bone fragments (RECON CAT# 163– representing two individuals (one (NAGPRA), 43 CFR 10.9, of the 119a) that were surface collected from a cremation; one inhumation) during an completion of an inventory of human probable cremation interment in Unit 12 emergency investigation at site CA-KER- remains and associated funerary objects (Locus E). The artifacts found in 2060/H (EAFB-617)(EAFB Historic Federal Register / Vol. 64, No. 4 / Thursday, January 7, 1999 / Notices 1029

Preservation Office files 85-041, 85-0). mandibular incisor (1670, Unit 7, 20-30 the inhumation appears to be a Native The first survey of the site by the BHPO cm); left mandibular molar fragments American burial dating to the Saratoga was done in April 1985 prior to the with severe occlusal wear (1671, Unit 7, Springs or Late Periods (A.D. 500-1770). construction of a sewage treatment pond 20-30 cm); and one tooth fragment The estimated date of occupation at (Norwood 1985). The remains were not (1672, Unit 7, 20-30 cm). No artifacts the CA-LAN-2060/H site is A.D. 500- found at that time. During the were found in association with the 1770. This is primarily based on the construction mechanical grading cremated human bone. presence of the aforementioned uncovered the human bone. The The cremated human bone was Cottonwood Triangular arrow points BHPO’s emergency investigation of the examined by Colonel H.P. Riessen in with the inhumation (Earle et al. 1997a). site involved: (1) a surface inspection of 1985 and Dr. Rose Tyson of the San It is not possible to positively determine ‘‘spoil’’ piles; (2) excavation of the Diego Museum of Man during the the cultural affiliation of the human inhumation with the assistance of NAGPRA inventory process. Reissen’s remains (Campbell et al. 1997). Colonel H.P. Riessen, a US Air Force analysis found severe wear present on Ethnohistoric information nevertheless Reserve physical anthropologist; and (3) the occlusal surfaces of the teeth, but no indicates that they are probably the excavation of seven 1 m x 1 m test evidence of caries or abscesses (1985:14- affiliated with one of the five units in different areas of the site. At the 16). All sutures on the skull fragments historically-documented tribes time the human remains were collected, are closed, and are characteristic of a (Chemehuevi, Kawaiisu, Kitanemuk, consultations were conducted with more mature individual. The severe Serrano, or Tataviam) in the region Native Americans (Kawaiisu [Lynn occlusal wear, closed sutures, and (Earle 1997). Bedabe]) and State and Federal robustness of the bone indicate the In 1987, the BHPO surface collected a agencies. These included the: State of individual was a 30 or so year old male fossilized human molar or premolar California Native American Heritage with possible anemia. crown fragment at the CA-KER-2241 The second individual at CA-KER- Commission (Annette Ospital); State of (EAFB-907) site (EAFB Historic 2060/H consists of unburned cranial California Office of Historic Preservation Office file 88-A). The and postcranial bone from an Preservation (Rob Jackson); National discovery of the tooth (ISOCATι 2286) inhumation interment approximately 5 Park Service Interagency Archeological occurred during legally authorized a m east of the cremation described above Services (Holly Dunbar); and National Base-wide inventory of paleontologic (Riessen 1985; Norwood 1985, 1987). Park Service Archeological Assistance resources by the San Bernardino County The inhumation did not evidence a Division (Deborah Katz). Museum (Reynolds 1988:76c, Rochez burial pit, but it appeared that the grave Ridge paleontological complex). The The first individual at the CA-KER- had been dug to the level of the caliche. tooth was found in Locus 4 in the 2060/H site is represented by 239 Riessen (1985:3) describes the burial as burned human bone from a cremation lying in an extended position, face proximity of two chert flakes. The type interment in Units 1, 5, 6, and 7. The upward with a northwest-southeast of interment that the tooth may have cremation was discovered in a 4 m- orientation; head oriented to the been part of is unknown. square area approximately 5 m west of northwest. The ISOCAT catalog Due to the lack of diagnostic artifacts, the inhumation interment described numbers for the inhumation include: no determination has been made on the below. The ISOCAT catalog numbers for one tibia fragment (1639a); post-cranial CA-LAN–2241 site’s estimated date of the interment include: two burned bone (1640); and rib fragment (4279). occupation. The chronological femur fragments (1639b); 46 Three artifacts were found in relationship of the tooth to the site’s late unidentified bone fragments (1673); 1 association with the inhumation, and Pleistocene paleontological finds is unidentified bone fragment (1767); two include two Cottonwood Triangular unknown. The cultural affiliation of the right lower bicuspid fragments (1813, arrow points (ISOCATι 1481, human remains also can not be surface); five long bone fragments, three translucent white chalcedony; ISOCATι positively determined (Campbell et al. cranial bone fragments, and small bone 1482, red and white chalcedony) and 1997). Ethnohistoric information, fragments (1662, Unit 1, 10-20 cm); 58 one bone tool (ISOCATι 1483). however, indicates that the tooth may be unidentified bone fragments and 23 Riessen (1985:13) analyzed the bone affiliated with one of the five tribes cranial bone fragments (including thick from the inhumation in 1985, and (Chemehuevi, Kawaiisu, Kitanemuk, parietal bone indicative of concluded that the individual was Serrano, or Tataviam) who were present anemia)(1663, Unit 1, 10-20 cm); one probably a 32 or so year old male, 5 foot in the region in historic times (Earle tooth fragment, two mandible fragments, 7 inches in height, who showed no gross 1997). seven unidentified bone fragments evidence of trauma or pathology. At first In 1988, RECON conducted legally (1763, 1763a-c, Unit 1, 20-30 cm); one it was not clear whether the well authorized test excavations at the CA- tooth (1739, Unit 5, 10-20 cm); six tooth preserved unburned bone in the LAN-1158 (EAFB-207) site and fragments (including one root and one inhumation represented a Native recovered burned human bone incisor fragment)(1745, Unit 5, 20-30 American or Euroamerican burial. The representing one cremated individual cm); one unidentified burned bone platymeric index of the individual’s (EAFB Historic Preservation Office file (1746, Unit 5, 20-30 cm); one bicuspid femur, for example, is 84.4, a value 88-E). Native Americans were not fragment with severe occlusal wear close to that of English populations and consulted at the time the human (1748, Unit 5, 30-40 cm); 22 long bone higher than the mean (74) for Native remains were recovered from the CA- fragments, one phalange, and eight Americans (Riessen 1985:14). Other LAN-1158 site. The bone was not cranial bone fragments (1756, Unit 6, indices such as the index of curvature identified until they were examined by 20-30 cm); two tooth fragments (1.0) and index of torsion (21.45), Dr. Rose Tyson of the San Diego (including one bicuspid and one root) however, are closer to the mean values Museum of Man during the NAGPRA and two bone fragments (1757, Unit 6, for Native American populations. Based inventory process. The individual is 20-30 cm); one burned tooth fragment on this information and associated represented by a left distal fibula (1664, Unit 7, 10-20 cm); two lower Cottonwood Triangular arrow points, fragment and three probable cranial bicuspid fragments (1669, Unit 7, 20-30 one of which was found in close bone fragments (RECON CATι 163- cm); one extremely worn right lateral proximity to the individual’s left arm, 565a). The human bone was recovered 1030 Federal Register / Vol. 64, No. 4 / Thursday, January 7, 1999 / Notices from a cremation interment in Unit 46 above are reasonably believed to have ACTION: Notice of permits issued under (Locus B)(Hector et al. 1988:27). been placed with or near individual the Antarctic Conservation Act of 1978, The estimated date of occupation at human remains at the time of death or Pub. L. 95–541. the CA-LAN-1158 site is 2000 B.C.-A.D. later as part of the death rite or 1770 or the Gypsum through Late ceremony. Lastly, officials of the Air SUMMARY: The National Science Periods. This is based on the presence Force Flight Test Center have Foundation (NSF) is required to publish of Cottonwood Triangular arrow points, determined that, pursuant to 43 CFR notice of permits issued under the Olivella sp. shell beads, and Haliotis sp. 10.2 (e), there is a relationship of shared Antarctic Conservation Act of 1978. shell elsewhere on the site (Earle et al. group identity which can be reasonably This is the required notice. 1997a). The cultural affiliation of the traced between these Native American FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: human remains can not be positively human remains and associated funerary Nadene G. Kennedy, Permit Office, determined (Campbell et al. 1997). objects and the Chemehuevi Indian Office of Polar Programs, Rm. 755, Ethnohistoric information, however, Tribe of the Chemehuevi Reservation, National Science Foundation, 4201 indicates that the cremation internment the San Manuel Band of Serrano Wilson Boulevard, Arlington, VA 22230. is probably affiliated with one of the Mission Indians of the San Manual SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On five tribes (Chemehuevi, Kawaiisu, Reservation, the Morongo Band of November 20, 1998, the National Kitanemuk, Serrano, or Tataviam) who Cahuilla Mission Indians of the Science Foundation published a notice utilized the region in historic times Morongo Reservation, and the Colorado in the Federal Register of permit (Earle 1997). River Indian Tribes of the Colorado applications received. Permits were In 1990, the BHPO surface collected River Indian Reservation. issued on December 21, 1998 to the one burned human tooth representing This notice has been sent to officials following applicants: one individual at the CA-KER-796 of the Chemehuevi Indian Tribe of the (EAFB-199; AVAS-40) site (EAFB Erland Fogelberg ...... Permit No. 99–011 Chemehuevi Reservation, the San Bruce Rheins ...... Permit No. 99–014 Historic Preservation Office file 90a- Manuel Band of Serrano Mission Ron Koger ...... Permit No. 99–015 Jud). No Native Americans were Indians of the San Manual Reservation, Donal Manahan ...... Permit No. 99–016 consulted at the time the tooth was the Morongo Band of Cahuilla Mission discovered. The tooth was not identified Indians of the Morongo Reservation, and Nadene G. Kennedy, as a human remain until it was the Colorado River Indian Tribes of the Permit Officer. examined by Dr. Rose Tyson of the San Colorado River Indian Reservation. [FR Doc. 99–265 Filed 1–6–99; 8:45 am] Diego Museum of Man during the Representatives of any other Indian tribe BILLING CODE 7555±01±M NAGPRA inventory process. The type of that believes itself to be culturally interment that the tooth came from is affiliated with these human remains and unknown although it may have been associated funerary objects should NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION part of a cremation. The tooth (ISOCATι contact David N. Fuerst or Richard H. Notice of Permit Applications Received 4672) is a probable canine with severe Norwood, Air Force Flight Test Center Under the Antarctic Conservation Act occlusal wear, exposed pulp cavity, and Environmental Management (AFFTC/ of 1978 (Pub.L. 95±541) secondary dentine formation. Two small EM) 5 E. Popson Avenue, Building areas of enamel are also visible at the 2650A, Edwards AFB, CA 93524-1130; AGENCY: National Science Foundation. root juncture on the lingual and buccal telephone: (805) 277-6295, before ACTION: Notice of permit modification surfaces of the tooth. February 8, 1999. Repatriation of the received under the Antarctic No determination has been made on human remains and associated funerary Conservation Act of 1978, Public Law the estimated date of occupation of the objects to the Chemehuevi Indian Tribe 95–541. CA- KER–796 site. The cultural of the Chemehuevi Reservation, the San affiliation of the tooth also can not be Manuel Band of Serrano Mission SUMMARY: The National Science positively determined (Campbell et al. Indians of the San Manual Reservation, Foundation (NSF) is required to publish 1997). Ethnohistoric information, the Morongo Band of Cahuilla Mission a notice of requests to modify permits however, indicates that the tooth may be Indians of the Morongo Reservation, and issued to conduct activities regulated affiliated with one of the five tribes the Colorado River Indian Tribes of the under the Antarctic Conservation Act of (Chemehuevi, Kawaiisu, Kitanemuk, Colorado River Indian Reservation may 1978. NSF has published regulations Serrano, or Tataviam) who utilized the begin after that date if no additional under the Antarctic Conservation Act at region in historic times (Earle 1997). claimants come forward. Title 45 Part 670 of the Code of Federal The ethnohistoric information The National Park Service is not Regulations. This is the required notice establishing the relationship between responsible for the contents of or of permit modifications requested. these tribes and the Native American determinations within this notice. DATES: Interested parties are invited to human remains and associated funerary Dated: December 8, 1998. submit written data, comments, or objects consists of ethnographies, Francis P. McManamon, views with respect to these permit language studies, Spanish mission Departmental Consulting Archeologist, applications by February 1, 1999. Permit records, oral interviews, and other Manager, Archeology and Ethnography applications may be inspected by sources (Earle 1997). Program. Based on the above mentioned interested parties at the Permit Office, information, officials of the Air Force [FR Doc. 99–325 Filed 1–6–99; 8:45 am] address below. Flight Test Center have determined that, BILLING CODE 4310±70±F ADDRESSES: Comments should be pursuant to 43 CFR 10.2 (d)(1), the addressed to Permit Office, Room 755, human remains listed above represent Office of Polar Programs, National the physical remains of nine individuals NATIONAL SCIENCE FOUNDATION Science Foundation, 4201 Wilson Boulevard, Arlington, Virginia 22230. of Native American ancestry. Officials of Notice of Permits Issued Under the FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: the Air Force Flight Test Center have Antarctic Conservation Act of 1978 also determined that, pursuant to 43 Nadene G. Kennedy at the above CFR 10.2 (d)(2), the 24 objects listed AGENCY: National Science Foundation. address or (703) 306–1030.