MACROFLORAL ANALYSIS OF HEARTH FILL, PROTEIN RESIDUE ANALYSIS OF LITHIC ARTIFACTS, AND AMS RADIOCARBON DATING OF CHARCOAL FROM SITES IN THE COTEAU MINE AREA, NORTH DAKOTA

Author(s): Kathryn Puseman

Year: 2006

Summary

Samples were examined from 11 stone ring sites in the Coteau Mine Area in Mercer

County, west-central North Dakota, to provide subsistence information. These sites will be

impacted by expansion of coal strip mining operations. A total of 33 lithic tools from these 11

sites were analyzed for possible protein residues to determine animal resources that might

have been hunted/processed with the tools. Five fill samples from hearths associated with

stone rings at sites 32ME169, 32ME755, 32ME1482, and 32ME1513 were floated to recover

macrofloral remains. Charcoal from the hearth at 32ME1482 was identified and AMS

radiocarbon dated. Macrofloral analysis will be used to provide information concerning plant

resources utilized by the site occupants. Cultural material was noted at shallow depths, making

sampling and interpreting the pollen record problematic due to frost heaving and mixing of the

modern with the prehistoric records.

Cite this Record

MACROFLORAL ANALYSIS OF HEARTH FILL, PROTEIN RESIDUE ANALYSIS OF LITHIC ARTIFACTS, AND AMS RADIOCARBON DATING OF CHARCOAL FROM SITES IN THE COTEAU MINE AREA, NORTH DAKOTA. Kathryn Puseman. 2006 ( tDAR id: 379343) ; doi:10.6067/XCV8M32V60

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Keywords

Material
Chipped Stone • Dating Sample • Ground Stone • Macrobotanical

Investigation Types
Data Recovery / Excavation

General
AMS Radiocarbon Analysis • Biface • Flake Tool • Hearth Fill • Macrofloral Analysis • Projectile Point • Protein Residue Analysis • Scraper

Geographic Keywords
Coteau Mine Area • Mercer County, North Dakota

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