Milling Stone (Material Keyword)

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ACORN ANTISERUM TESTING OF THREE MILLING SURFACE PROTEIN RESIDUE WASH SAMPLES FROM SITE SDI-10697, CAMP PENDLETON, CALIFORNIA (2011)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Chad Yost.

Three protein residue wash samples of milling groundstone tools were tested against acorn (oak, Quercus sp.) antiserum. These samples were previously tested against various antisera at another lab, but were submitted to PaleoResearch specifically for testing against acorn antiserum.


From Big Game Hunter to Forager on the Northwestern Plains Smithsonian Institution / River Basin Survey (1967)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Oscar L. Mallory.

In earlier issues of Progress the gains in knowledge of the village dwellers of the Missouri River have been discussed and described. For this report attention will be directed to the earlier, technologically less sophisticated, hunter and gatherers who inhabited the Plains from about 2,000-7,000 years ago. This document contains a brief overview of those who inhabited the Plains and calls for a full investigation of the mountain refuge hypothesis.


POLLEN, PHYTOLITH, STARCH, AND PROTEIN RESIDUE ANALYSIS OF MILLING STONES FROM THE PAYNES CREEK BLUFF SITE (CA-TEH-2461/H), TEHAMA COUNTY, CALIFORNIA (2015)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings. Jennifer L.B. Milligan.

Paynes Creek Bluff, CA-TEH-2461/H, Tehama County, California, is a bluff-top site containing a rock wall, eight rock enclosures, and two rock cairns, as well as a historic wire fence (Eric Ritter, personal communication April 3, 2015). A metate, designated Feature 4, was recovered from Structure 5 (circa 1-2 cmbs) and submitted for pollen, starch, and phytolith analyses to provide information regarding plant processing. Pollen, starch, and protein residue analyses were conducted on a second...