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DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings.

Monte Verde I, located in south-central Chile, has produced radiocarbon dates indicating pre-Clovis occupation. Dates concurrent with occupational surface artifacts and features at MVII, including lithic, non-lithic artifacts, architectural remains, and spatial patterning, indicate site occupation approximately 14,600 to 14,200 years Cal BP (Dillehay, et al. 2008:784). Excavations at MV-I have produced dates ranging from 16,000 ± 60 to 9320 ± 40 BP. Noncultural levels have been dated between...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Kathryn Puseman. Thomas Lux.

A bison pre-molar recovered from site 24CH395 near Square Butte in Chouteau County, Montana, was submitted for AMS radiocarbon dating. A single root from the pre-molar was dated, leaving the tooth enamel available for other possible analyses.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings.

Bone and carbon-enriched sediments from the MacHaffie Site (24JF4) in west-central Montana were submitted for AMS radiocarbon dating.

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

A single bone fragment from Spokane Creek, Montana was submitted for AMS radiocarbon dating.

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

A human fibula fragment from Feature F1a at Rough Cut Rockshelter (41BS1507) was submitted for AMS radiocarbon dating. Collagen extraction methods and results are discussed in the following sections.

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

A single, incompletely burned human left femur from the Jeffrey Crevice burial was submitted for radiocarbon dating. Processing methods and results are discussed in the following sections.

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

A small collection of mammal long bone fragments and a few salmonid vertebrae were submitted for AMS radiocarbon dating. Although two salmonid vertebrae and several long bone fragments were processed to recover gelatin, only one sample was submitted for an AMS radiocarbon date.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings.

A bison bone fragment recovered from an alluvial terrace at the Casper Site (WT-1) in San Antonio, Texas was submitted for AMS radiocarbon analysis. The bone is expected to date in the latter part of the Little Ice Age. In addition to radiometric dating, the bone was examined for its δ13C and δ15N ratios.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings. Jennifer L.B. Milligan.

The Soyo 1 Site in Soyo is situated in the Darkhad Depression in Khövsgöl province, north-central Mongolia. One mammalian bone fragment from Soyo 1 (Table 1) was submitted for bone collagen extraction and AMS radiocarbon age determination to contribute to transitional chronologies between Mongolian Epi-Paleolithic (Neolithic) hunting-gathering and Bronze Age pastoralism.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings.

Two sets of mule deer teeth, recovered from CA-TEH-193 and expected to date to the Little Ice Age, were submitted for AMS radiocarbon dating.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings. Peter Kováčik.

The T. Thompson site (21CO50), located in Cottonwood County, in southwestern Minnesota, yielded three samples for AMS radiocarbon analysis (Table 1). A ceramic sherd containing visible charred food crust, a bison ulna, and a piece of Ulmus rubra (slippery elm) charcoal were submitted for AMS radiocarbon analysis. Fourier transform infrared spectroscopic (FTIR) analysis also was performed on the charred food crust removed from the ceramic sherd to obtain a signature of the foods cooked.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Peter Kováčik. Linda Scott Cummings.

The CUC Fuel Pipeline Project, located in Puerto Rico, Saipan in the Northern Mariana Islands, revealed several prehistoric features and burials. Seven bulk soil samples collected from various features were submitted for macrofloral analysis to recover and identify charred botanic remains suitable for radiocarbon analysis. Additionally, bone collagen extraction and radiocarbon date was requested on human rib fragments collected from a single prehistoric burial. Seven charred botanic samples and...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings. Peter Kováčik. Jennifer L.B. Milligan.

The Fort Lookout II site (39LM57) is a multicomponent site located on an MT-1 terrace along the eroding west bank of the Missouri River (Lake Francis Case) at the southern end of the Fort Hale bottoms, Lyman County, South Dakota. Archaeological investigations at the site include excavations in 1950, 1951, 1986, 1999, and 2001. The site demonstrates village occupation during the Initial Middle Missouri as well as subsequent historic components (Katherine Lamie, personal communication March 2,...

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

Site 24DW0560 is a buried lithic scatter or temporary camp located in Dawson County, Montana, approximately 10.5 km west of the town of Lindsay. Twenty-one samples were submitted for a variety of analyses to better understand resource use among prehistoric huntergatherer populations. Eight lithic samples were submitted for protein analysis. Of the seven rock and sediment samples collected from fire-cracked rock (FCR) features, three were submitted for FTIR analysis, one for macrofloral, one for...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings.

In Minnesota, understanding ceramic periods of prehistory and their attendant subsistence practices is of critical importance. Our previous study (Scott Cummings 2017) indicates that problems with radiocarbon dates on ceramics are not unique to this period. Instead, the entire prehistoric record is affected. The natural Minnesota landscape contributes dissolved inorganic carbon (DIC) and organic carbon (DOC), confounding efforts to create a clean radiocarbon record. When graphing all dates from...

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

A ceramic rim sherd and two bone fragments from the Ne’hu-lat-poe Village, site 10IH3337, in the Nez Perce National Forest in Idaho County, Idaho, were submitted for AMS radiocarbon dating. This multicomponent site is one of five ancient Nez Perce villages found in the area. Phytolith, starch, and organic residue analyses also were performed on the ceramic rim sherd. The sherd was tested for organic residues using Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy (FTIR). Phytolith, starch, and organic...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings. Chad Yost.

Previous pollen analysis of a sample associated with a burial from site 41HY163 in south-central Texas yielded possible evidence of Zea mays pollen. Because the identification was tentative, an additional soil sample was submitted to PaleoResearch Institute for testing. Pollen and phytolith analyses were conducted for the specific purpose of finding any evidence for the presence of Zea mays or to find pollen types that might be confused with Zea mays. After completion of the pollen and phytolith...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings.

A single elk astragalus bone fragment from 45ST74, Washington, was submitted for radiocarbon dating. The site is located behind Grand Coulee Dam in Lake Roosevelt.