PROTEIN RESIDUE ANALYSIS OF ARTIFACTS FROM SITE CA-SBR-7691, SUMMIT VALLEY, CALIFORNIA
Author(s): Kathryn Puseman
Year: 1994
Summary
Eighteen pieces of groundstone, three bifaces, and a possible stone ball
from CA-SBR-7691 in Summit Valley, California, were analyzed to recover possible blood residues. Immunological studies have shown that proteins from a tool's surface can be identified using modified forensic procedures. Ethnographic
sources from southern California suggest that small mammals, insects, and large mammal remains were pulverized using groundstone tools. Protein residue analysis is used to address the question of prehistoric use of groundstone to process animal remains, as well as to provide prehistoric subsistence information and possible artifact specificity.
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PROTEIN RESIDUE ANALYSIS OF ARTIFACTS FROM SITE CA-SBR-7691, SUMMIT VALLEY, CALIFORNIA. Kathryn Puseman. 1994 ( tDAR id: 375578) ; doi:10.6067/XCV8765DHS
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PRI Technical Report(s): 94-48
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