Ground Stone (Material Keyword)

DOCUMENT Citation Only La Mar W. Lindsay.

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

Site TL6926-PM-006 is a prehistoric bedrock milling complex situated along Keys Creek in Valley Center, San Diego County, California. Washes from Features 2 and 4 were collected and submitted for protein analysis.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings.

Two tabular tools from Site AZ U:1:433(ASM) were submitted for protein residue analysis to assist with their interpretation. This site exhibits occupation during the Classic period based on recovery of a few, small red ware sherds (Hackbarth 2017).

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings.

Site 50-10-30-10222, located within the U.S. Pohakuloa Training Area (PTA), is situated in the saddle region between Mauna Loa, Mauna Kea, and Hual̀ālai. Water-worn stones recovered at this site are interpreted to represent stones that were heated, then placed in bird abdominal cavities to cook the flesh from the inside. Two elongated water-worn basalt pebbles were submitted for protein residue analysis to determine if there is protein evidence of this practice.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Jennifer L.B. Milligan.

Lithics from the Scazighini/Fawn Lake Ranch site and groundstone from the Ciervo Dry Lake #1 site were submitted for protein residue and energy dispersive x-ray fluorescence spectroscopy (ED-XRF) analyses, respectively.

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

A granite pestle and an associated soil control sample recovered from Feature 2, an exposed, low-lying granite bedrock milling station at Site CA-TUO-4818 in Yosemite National Park, California, were submitted for protein and organic residue analysis. The pestle was tested for organic residues using Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy (FTIR), and for protein residue using cross-over immunoelectrophoresis (CIEP).

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

A granite pestle and an associated soil control sample recovered from Feature 2, an exposed, low-lying granite bedrock milling station at Site CA-TUO-4818 in Yosemite National Park, California, were submitted for protein and organic residue analysis. The pestle was tested for organic residues using Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy (FTIR), and for protein residue using cross-over immunoelectrophoresis (CIEP). Following completion of this analysis, three additional residue samples and...

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

Three tabular tools were submitted for protein residue analysis using cross-over immunoelectrophoresis. Five ceramic sherds were submitted for organic residue analysis using Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy (FTIR). These artifacts were recovered from site AZ T:8:68 (ASM), located in Peoria, Arizona. The goal of these analyses was to detect and identify any plant and animal-based organic residues that may be present on the surfaces of these artifacts.

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

One granite metate fragment was recovered from Site CA-SDI-16111 (P-37-024301), a prehistoric site located in the Anza Borrego Desert State Park, San Diego County, California. The site consists of two milling features, an agave roasting pit, and artifact scatter (James Daniels, personal communication, September 14, 2018). The granite metate fragment was submitted for protein residue analysis.

DOCUMENT Full-Text William Engelbrecht.

This report by Linda Scott Cummings and Caitlin A. Clark describes protein residues on 3 chert specimens from Eaton.One specimen did not react to weak antisera, one suggested the processing of both dog and rabbit, and the third suggested processing domestic goat.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings.

Three prehistoric sites, CA-SDI-21073, CA-SDI-21074, and CA-SDI-21114, are situated in northern San Diego County, California and is part of the Valley Ranch Center Project. The Valley Ranch Center Project location is west of Valley Center Road, south of Lilac Road, and north of Woods Valley Road. All three sites are located in the northeast corner within the Valley Center Project location. Site CA-SDI-21073 is located northwest of Site CA-SDI-21074 and west of CA-SDI-21114, whereas Site...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings. Lee Drake.

Site CA-MRP-0056/H, located in Yosemite National Park in Mariposa County, is situated in a glacially-scoured granitic basin at an elevation of 3,989 feet. This complex site is situated in a region occupied by the Penutian-speaking Central Sierra Miwok and Southern Sierra Miwok, the Bridgeport Valley Paiute, Mono Lake Paiute, and the Mono-speaking Owens Valley Paiute. The Washoe entered the northern park area as far south as Yosemite Valley. Previous analysis of artifacts, which included starch,...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings.

Bedrock milling outcrops that are part of three archaeological sites (CA-RIV-8750, 8751, and 8752) were sampled for protein residue analysis. Four slicks and two control locations were sampled CA-RIV-8750 (Table 1). Two slicks were sampled at each CA-RIV-8751 and CA-RIV-8752 as well as control locations.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Kathryn Puseman.

A mano and a metate fragment from Site 48C01990 in northeast Wyoming were analyzed for possible protein residues. Immunological studies have shown that protein residues from a tool's surface can be identified using modified forensic procedures. The pieces of groundstone were analyzed to determine if animal remains and/or yucca were processed using these tools.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Chad Yost. Linda Scott Cummings.

A total of 15 stone artifacts that included stones from rock-lined pits, plane scrapers and agave knives were submitted for protein residue analysis from several Archaic and Formative period sites located within the Fort Bliss Military Reservation. Previous to this study, burned limestone rocks were submitted to PaleoResearch for organic (FTIR) analysis from these same sites, as well as from a few other sites in the general area (Logan 2010). FTIR analysis was successful in detecting plant...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Kathryn Puseman.

A single mano from the Rustler Rockshelter (CA-SBR-288) in the Providence Mountains of the eastern Mojave Desert, California, was analyzed for possible protein residues. This site contains an open midden located against a south-facing cliff. Protein residue analysis was undertaken to determine if animal or agave protein residues were present on the mano surface.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Chad Yost.

A broken boulder that may have been used as a stone tool (maul) was submitted for protein residue analysis. This tool was recovered from the National City Mastodon Site in National City, a southern suburb of San Diego, California. The rock was found among broken mastodon bones. If this boulder was used to process plant or animal remains, identifiable proteins may be present in the micro-crevices on its surface.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Curtis Nepstad-Thornberry.

Two groundstone artifacts from site CA-SCLI-43 on San Clemente Island, California were analyzed for possible protein residues. Protein residue analysis had been conducted previously in another laboratory on both groundstone artifacts; however, neither of these groundstone appeared to have been washed prior to being accepted at Paleo Research. In addition, neither artifact was accompanied with a formal soil control sample; therefore, small soil controls were generated from the small amount of...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Chad Yost.

Groundstone tools, flaked lithic tools, and wash samples from three bedrock milling elements were submitted for protein residue analysis from site CA-SDI-16648, Lawson Valley, San Diego County, California. Protein residue extracts from these samples were tested against various plant and animal antisera to better understand resource utilization by the site occupants.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Jennifer L.B. Milligan.

The Tribal Court Facility, Project #135031, encompasses a rural area in Maricopa County, Arizona, and includes the western edge of El Caliche (SRPMIC-100). Lithic and groundstone artifacts from pit houses, borrow pit features, and sheet trash were submitted for protein residue analysis to provide data on their functions as tools.

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

A single groundstone fragment with a utilized surface from site 46KA622 in Kanawha County, West Virginia, was submitted for organic residue analysis using Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy (FTIR). Sixteen lithic tools and nine soil control samples also were submitted for protein residue analysis. These analyses will be used to determine possible materials processed with the artifacts.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Jennifer L.B. Milligan.

Site CA-SDI-15026 is a prehistoric Kumeyaay site with scattered habitation debris, a Yoni boulder formation, and a milling feature. The site is situated along the upper elevations of three hill slope fingers located in Ramona, California. Wash samples collected from two milling slick elements of Feature HT-1 were submitted for protein residue analysis.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Jennifer L.B. Milligan.

Archaeological assemblages in the Davis Flats North area, near the Williston Reservoir, Peace River Regional District, British Columbia, represent occupations spanning the early Holocene and recent occupations. Site HdSd-371:606 is situated on the western bank of a dendritic channel that bisects a large glaciolacustrian land form. Erosion due to the reservoir has impacted the site, and archaeological materials in the area likely do not reflect accurate depositional provenience. Artifacts have...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Kathryn Puseman. Linda Scott Cummings. Chad Yost.

Protein residue analysis, organic residue analysis (FTIR), charcoal identification and/or AMS radiocarbon dating was conducted on several projectile points, ceramic, bone, and charcoal fragments from site GDON-18, near the eastern border of Alberta, Canada. The site is situated along the shore of Cold Lake, on a terrace of course sand. Vegetation in the area is generally comprised of boreal trees and shrubs, and associated understory plants. Residue analysis should provide some animal and plant...

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...