Code of Colorado Regulations
1504 - Department of Higher Education
1504 - Historical Society
8 CCR 1504-7 - HISTORICAL, PREHISTORICAL, AND ARCHAEOLOGICAL RESOURCES
Section 2 - Definitions

A. "The Act" means the Historical, Prehistorical, and Archaeological Resources Act of 1973 (CRS 24-80-401 to 411, and 24-80-1301 to 1305);

B. "Ancillary samples" are organic or inorganic specimens, other than human remains or artifacts, gathered by scientists for the purpose of analysis to provide information on past environments, diets, chronology, or material source areas. Ancillary samples may include, but are not limited to, charcoal, wood, soil, coprolites, and floral or faunal specimens.

C. "Archaeological resources" means all sites, deposits, structures, or objects which are at least 100 years of age and which provide information pertaining to the historical or prehistorical culture of people within the boundaries of the state of Colorado;

D. "Artifacts" are portable items made, used, or transported by humans;

E. "Curation" means permanent maintenance, storage, preservation, documentation, and the ability to retrieve from storage collected archaeological, historical, prehistorical, and paleontological specimens and records;

F. "Excavation" means subsurface sampling or removal of specimens by hand or with mechanized equipment, including test excavation;

G. "File search" means an examination of the automated inventory of historical and archaeological sites maintained at the State Historical Society of Colorado for the area in which work is proposed to be conducted;

H. "Fossil" means the remains or traces of an organism or assemblage of organisms preserved by natural processes in or on the earth's crust, exclusive of organisms that have been buried in recent times. Materials such as oil and gas, coal, oil shale, bitumen, lignite, asphaltum, tar sands, phosphate, limestone, diatomaceous earth, uranium, and vanadium, while they may be of biologic origin, are not here considered fossils;

I. "Funerary objects" means objects that, as part of the death rite or ceremony of a culture, are reasonably believed to have been placed with individual human remains either at the time of death or later.

J. "Historical" means older than 50 years of age and during the period that written records have been used to document events in Colorado.

K. "Historical resources" means all sites, deposits, structures, buildings, or objects which provide information pertaining to the culture of people during the historical period;

L. "Investigation" means the scientific study of archaeological or paleontological resources.

M. "Museum" means a scientific or educational institution that agrees to permanently curate archaeological or paleontological materials collected under the authorization of a permit issued by the society, including specimens, documents, and photographs (Section 9 of these regulations);

N. "Paleontological resources" means fossils and other remains of prehistoric animals, plants, insects, and other objects of natural history within Colorado that do not show evidence of human association;

O. "Permit" means a written authorization issued by the society that allows the investigation, excavation, gathering, or removal of historical, archaeological or paleontological resources from lands within the state of Colorado;

P. "Prehistorical" means before the period that written records were used to document events in Colorado. Prehistorical resources may be archaeological or paleontological;

Q. "The society" means the State Historical Society of Colorado;

R. "State archaeologist" means the individual appointed by the board of directors of the State Historical Society of Colorado to carry out the duties prescribed in the Act;

S. "State monument" means any historic or prehistoric structure, deposit, site or other object of scientific or historic interest situated on lands owned by the state of Colorado and duly designated by the governor as such;

T. "Survey" means the search for, inventorying of, and documentation of archaeological or paleontological resources in the field by non-destructive means in accordance with established standards for the purpose of recording such remains on official Colorado inventory forms, and of preparing reports that meet guidelines published by the society.