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DOCUMENT Full-Text Chad Yost. Melissa K. Logan. Linda Scott Cummings.

Originally, two obsidian bifacial scrapers were submitted for protein residue analysis using CIEP from the Yearling Spring Obsidian Biface Cache, located in Park County, Montana. An obsidian biface reduction flake coated with ochre residue was submitted in March 2012. A portion of the ochre residue was removed from the obsidian biface and tested for protein residues. In addition, a piece of ochre/soil matrix recovered from close proximity to the ochre coated tool was tested for protein residues...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Melissa K. Logan. Chad Yost.

Three projectile points and five feature fill samples were submitted for protein and organic residue analysis, respectively. The feature fill samples were tested for organic residues using Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy (FTIR). Residue analysis should provide information on subsistence, including materials processed, and possible functions of the artifacts and features, as well as shed light on group mobility.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Melissa K. Logan. Chad Yost.

Site FdOt 32, situated near Hardisty, Alberta, Canada, was occupied approximately 1000 RCYBP, according to radiocarbon dates. A projectile point, three ceramic fragments, and one hearth fill sample were submitted for protein and organic residue analysis. Ceramics and hearth fill was tested for organic residues using Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy (FTIR). A projectile point was tested for protein residue using cross-over immunoelectrophoresis (CIEP).

DOCUMENT Full-Text Melissa K. Logan. Chad Yost.

Hearth fill and fire-broken rock from sites EfOo 180, EfOo 134, and EjOp 29, Alberta, Canada, were submitted for organic residue analysis. Samples were tested for organic residues using Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy (FTIR). Five lithic tools from these sites also were analyzed for protein residues. Protein and organic residue analysis provide information regarding diet, specifically materials processed using lithic tools and thermal features, respectively, at these sites.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Chad Yost. Melissa K. Logan.

Five lithic artifacts and three hearth fill samples from sites EfOo 146 and EgOp 5, discovered during the Keystone Pipeline Project in southern Alberta, Canada were submitted for protein and/or organic residue analyses (Table 1). A single hearth sample from site EfOo 146 was examined for organic residues using Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy (FTIR), while ten samples were tested for organic residues and/or protein residues using immunoelectrophoresis.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings. Caitlin A. Clark. Paul M. Miller.

Site 32OL0510 is situated on a small ridge above minor, meandering tributary creeks of Square Butte Creek, approximately 3.5 km west of the town of Center in Oliver County, North Dakota. Three prehistoric stone circle features and associated lithic tools comprise the site. Ethnoscience, Inc., submitted four lithic samples recovered from the site to PaleoResearch Institute for protein residue (CIEP) analysis. Additionally, four sediment samples were collected—two from the center of the features...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings. Caitlin A. Clark.

Sites CA-SDI-14971, CA-SDI-16695, and CA-SDI-16696, located in San Diego County, California, are part of the Via de la Valle Project. Seven lithic artifacts were collected and submitted for protein analysis. Obsidian debitage was submitted for obsidian sourcing, and a burned granite bowl was submitted for pollen and starch analysis.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Jennifer L.B. Milligan.

The Wolf Creek Pictograph site (5RT90) boundary includes a rockshelter and cliff situated north of the Yampa River in Routt County, Colorado. Sediments at the site are mostly derived from the eroding cliff face with the two uppermost strata containing protohistoric and historic materials (Barb Lockwood, personal communication January 18, 2016). Two lithic artifacts and their associated sediment control samples recovered from the site were selected for protein residue analysis.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings. Chad Yost.

AMS radiocarbon dating and protein residue analysis of samples from the Smock-Biguiziak Site (36CW248), located in Crawford County, Pennsylvania, were undertaken to provide basal dates for the swampy area below the site and an indicating of animals being hunted by occupants of the site. Dates were obtained on conifer charcoal recovered from a depth of 109-111 cm, and precipitated humates from a depth of 131-134.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Chad Yost.

A series of soil samples and controls from experimental plots in Louisiana were submitted for protein residue analysis. These samples were tested against pig antiserum in an effort to assess the detectability of pig blood based on spatial and temporal variables.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Chad Yost.

A total of ten feature-fill soil samples were submitted for protein residue analysis from site SLT-094, Alaska. This site, located on the Kuskokwim River, contains 2000- and 1800-year-old activity areas. The goal of this analysis was to detect protein residues that may be derived from fish and other animals utilized by the site occupants.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Jennifer L.B. Milligan.

Eight subsurface pre-contact sites (HaRf-51, HaRf-52, HaRf-70, HaRf-71, HaRf-85, HbRf-65, HbRf-102, and HbRf-132) of varying size are situated on knolls and ridges near the confluence of the Peace and Moberly Rivers, British Columbia, Canada. Conventional radiocarbon dates for the sites range between 11,220 ± 40 BP and 1770 ± 30 BP (Shauna Huculak, personal communication April 24, 2015). Nine lithic artifacts and associated soil control samples collected from the sites’ assemblages were...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings. Chad Yost. Melissa K. Logan.

Six chert projectile point fragments were submitted for protein residue analysis, along with two probable smoking pipe fragments for pollen, phytolith, starch, and organic residue analysis. As both pipe fragments belonged to the same pipe the fragment with the least naturally occurring asphaltum on the exterior was selected for organic residue analysis, and both fragments were used for pollen, phytolith, and starch analysis. The pipe fragment selected for organic residue analysis was tested...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings.

Flaked lithics including projectile points, bifaces, scrapers, flake tools, and an adze from multiple archaeological sites in British Columbia were submitted for protein residue analysis to determine what animals these tools were used to process.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings.

The Wishbone Site (42To6384) includes a buried flaked stone assemblage, accompanied by a hearth feature. A pooled mean of three radiocarbon dates (10,390 ± 21 BP) was obtained on willow charcoal. The site is situated on an open salt flat supporting sparse pickleweed/iodine bush (Allenrolfea occidentalis). Fourteen flaked lithics were submitted for protein residue analysis. Four sediment control samples were collected from the general site area and one location near an artifact.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Kathryn Puseman. Chad Yost. Melissa K. Logan.

The Francois Paulette Cabin Site (2315R) site is a stratified, multi-component, precontact site located along the Slave River in Wood Buffalo National Park, northern Alberta. Charcoal and bone recovered from this site were submitted for identification and/or AMS radiocarbon dating. Eight radiocarbon dates were obtained from seven charcoal fragments and a partially burned antler fragment. Lithics recovered throughout the site also were submitted for protein residue analysis to provide information...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings. Chad Yost. Kathryn Puseman. Melissa K. Logan. R.A. Varney.

Samples from site 46BO419, Boone County, West Virginia were submitted for archaeobotanical and AMS radiocarbon dating analysis. Ceramic, lithic, and other stone tool artifacts were analyzed for protein residues (cross over immunoelectrophoresis) and organic residues (FTIR). Charred botanical remains were submitted for charcoal identification and AMS radiocarbon dating. Results of these analyses have the potential to increase the understanding of Early Archaic through Late Woodland periods in...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Kathryn Puseman. Chad Yost.

Artifacts and associated soil control samples from sites CA-SDI-19406, CA-SDI-12100, and CA-SDI-9824 from Camp Pendleton, California, were submitted for protein residue analysis. The samples consisted of washes from various groundstone tools, retouched flakes, and bedrock milling features. The floated light fractions from several column samples at these sites also were submitted for macrofloral analysis. A two-sigma calibrated age range of AD 1630–1910 and AD 1920–beyond 1950 was returned for...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings. Kathryn Puseman. R.A. Varney.

One botanic sample and four sediment samples from site 23CK302 were submitted for AMS radiocarbon dating. A single botanic sample from 23LE174 also was submitted for dating. Although the original intent was to recover microscopic charcoal from all four sediment samples, visual examination of the screened portion of two of the samples revealed the presence of small pieces of coal. Coal cannot be removed from the microscopic charcoal fraction and would have caused the determination of the...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Brendan Daniels.

The procedures employed by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE), St. Louis District, Curation and Archives Analysis Branch, Mandatory Center of Expertise for the Curation and Management of Archaeological Collections to rehouse the archaeological material from Vicksburg District are discussed below. Upon completion of this curation management project, the Vicksburg District collection will be sent to Cobb Institute of Archaeology at Mississippi State University for permanent curation. The...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings.

Site 49CR7399 is a prehistoric campsite located north of Hogback Lake and just east of the Continental Divide in Carbon County, Wyoming. Sediment samples were collected from the edge of Feature 5, a thermal feature, to recover any starches present that might indicate what plants were processed, and from sediment from the side of the feature to be used as a control sample in interpreting the starch record associated with the feature.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Chad Yost.

Two soil samples were submitted for starch grain analysis from site LA 123349, located in Otero County, New Mexico. These samples were collected from two separate rock-filled baking pit features. This analysis was used to investigate the possible presence of starch grains derived from foods that were processed or cooked using these features.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings.

Site 48SW16962, situated south-southwest of Wamsutter, Wyoming, is an open lithic scatter comprised of three cultural features (Features 1, 2, and 3) representing an Uinta Phase occupation. Sediment samples from each feature were submitted for starch analysis to identify starchy foods cooked in these features.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings. Melissa K. Logan.

Sediment samples from the fill of a basin house and associated features at site 48SW16996 in Sweetwater County, Wyoming, were submitted for starch analysis. Fire-cracked rock from fill of a hearth within the basin house also was tested for organic residues using Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy (FTIR). Radiocarbon dates suggest that the house dates to the Opal phase of the Early Archaic. Starch and organic residue (FTIR) analyses will be used to provide information concerning plant...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings. Melissa K. Logan.

Several sites have been archaeologically mitigated along the Oneok Pipeline. Reporting on results of starch and organic residue analysis using the FTIR includes a discussion of all sites within a single report. Each site will be discussed independently and the results will be compared or synthesized in the concluding section. The Oneok Pipeline extends from ... to ... (we need a map or information from you to fill this part in). Samples for recovery of starch and/or organic residues were...