ORGANIC RESIDUE ANALYSIS ON GROUNDSTONE FROM SITE 48SU6617, WYOMING

Summary

A groundstone was recovered from a prehistoric camp, site 48SU6617, in the Green

River Basin of southwestern Wyoming (Table 1). The site is a prehistoric open camp consisting

of at least one housepit, a large charcoal stain, and a single fire hearth feature. The housepit

contained three groundstone stone fragments, one core, numerous pieces of debitage and bone

fragments, three interior fire hearth features, and three post holes. One of the groundstone

fragments was submitted for organic residue analysis to identify materials ground, and was

tested using Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy (FTIR).

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