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

The Cedar Fork Creek Mastodon site appears to be a PaleoIndian Proboscidean bone workshop located in Morrow County, Ohio. It is believed that the remains of a mastodon are buried somewhere under a modern day bog-like pond (George DeMuth, personal communication, September 23, 2019). It is also believed the prehistoric people harvested and dragged parts of the mastodon away to the workshop located on a nearby hill. The mastodon remains were then likely processed for food and for making useful...

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

The Sundog Site (24LC2289) represents a prehistoric, short-term occupation and is situated on a large bench near the head of Indian Creek adjacent to the Gates of the Mountains Wilderness Area in Helena National Forest, Lewis and Clark County, Montana. Thirteen lithics recovered from the site were selected and submitted for protein residue analysis to identify animals hunted or processed at the site.

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 Linda Scott Cummings. Caitlin A. Clark.

Site 8HG1330 (Cara Cara Corner) is located in Highlands County, Florida. Cara Cara Corner is situated west of the Sandy Point Wildlife Refuge on an upland surface near the edge of a wet prairie. A possible Archaic-stemmed projectile point was collected from the site and submitted for protein residue (CIEP) analysis.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings.

Site CA-SDI-8797, located in the Peninsular Ranges Geologic Province of southern California, yielded five eccentric crescents that were submitted for protein residue analysis to determine their use.

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

The Eaton Site is a multicomponent site situated on a knoll overlooking Cazenovia Creek in West Seneca, Erie County, New York. The site was utilized intermittently from late Paleoindian times to the early 19th Century (William Engelbrecht, personal communication, October 31, 2018). The major occupation of the site was an AD 1550 Iroquoian village. Three chert lithics recovered from an Iroquoian longhouse during the 1990 Buffalo State, State University of New York Field School were submitted for...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings.

Sites Södra Hasslegården 26 (Early Maglemose culture) and Ringsjöbaden 44 (Late Maglemose culture) are located in Stehag Perish, Scania, Sweden. These sites are situated either on or near a former lake shore. The Södra Hasslegården 26 site dates between ca 9,700–7,300 BC, whereas the Ringsjöbaden 44 site dates immediately after, between ca 7,000–6,700 BC. Eight protein Mesolithic lithic samples underwent protein analysis. Five protein samples were collected from the Södra Hasslegården 26 site in...

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

Bull Creek camp (Site 34BV176) is situated on a terrace overlooking Bull Creek, 1.85 km northwest of the junction of north/south-trending US 83 and east/west-trending US 412 in Beaver County, Oklahoma. Five flaked lithic artifacts were recovered from a portion of the site dominated by butchered bison (Bison spp.) bones and a few Camelid bones (Leland Bement, personal communication, February 4, 2019 and April 26, 2019). The Oklahoma Archaeological Survey submitted the lithics to PaleoResearch...

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

Two obsidian flakes were recovered from Site 118X77, which is located in Nahanni National Park Reserve in southwest Northwest Territories, Canada. The flakes were submitted for protein residue analysis to identify possible processed animal proteins. The flakes were also submitted for obsidian sourcing to determine where the flake materials originated.

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.

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. Caitlin A. Clark.

The Anzick Site (24PA506) is located in the intermontane Shields River Valley in Park County, Montana. This collapsed rockshelter contains burial features and an artifact assemblage. It was discovered by construction workers in 1968 (Stockton White, personal communication, October 17, 2018). The context of the site and burial and the original provenience of the artifacts are not known. Six lithics from the artifact assemblage were submitted for protein residue, and elemental composition (X-ray...

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. 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 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 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 Jennifer L.B. Milligan.

The Klein Site is a Paleo Indian site of the Parkhill Phase (ca. 11,000 to 10,500 BP) located in the upper Great Lakes, Shiawassee County, Michigan (William Lovis, personal communication December 4, 2015). Lithic artifacts including point/knife and other biface fragments were recovered by property owners from the top 20 cm of their garden. Nine biface fragments recovered from clayey silts and associated sediment control samples were selected from the assemblage for protein residue (CIEP)...

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. 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 Caitlin A. Clark. Linda Scott Cummings.

A chert flaked stone tool recovered from Site CA-MEN-1371, Mendocino County, California was submitted for protein residue analysis.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings.

A copper harpoon recovered in situ at a Nipissing beach habitation site (McCargoe Cove Site MC.02N) in close proximity to the Minong mine was submitted for protein residue analysis to determine its use.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Chad Yost.

A flaked lithic stone tool and an associated soil control were submitted for protein residue analysis from site 32DU621, located in North Dakota. Because of the potential age of this tool, antisera from Pleistocene mammals were added to the suite of antisera used for testing. The goal of this analysis was to extract and identify any protein residues that may be present of the surface of this tool.

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 Linda Scott Cummings.

One scraper recovered from a multi-component precontact and historic mining camp next to Tuededéveh Tué, Northwest Territories, was submitted for protein residue analysis to identify proteins that contribute to understanding its use.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Chad Yost.

A single triangular projectile point from site 46CH07 was submitted for protein residue analysis. This site is located in Calhoun County and along the floodplain of the Henry Fork of the Little Kanawha River. Protein residue analysis will be used to identify any potential residues that may be adhering to the surface of this artifact.