PROTEIN RESIDUE ANALYSIS OF A COPPER TOOL FROM THE GRACE PENINSULA SITE, ISLE ROYALE NATIONAL PARK, MICHIGAN
Author(s): Jennifer L.B. Milligan
Year: 2013
Summary
The Grace Peninsula site is situated on Isle Royale in Keweenaw County, Michigan. Surveys, shovel tests, and metal detecting along the Nipissing shorelines recovered copper and lithic artifacts believed to correspond with Archaic cultures around 4,000–5,000 years ago. Of the 28 copper tools recovered from the site, two were submitted for protein residue analysis. As oxidized copper has the potential to limit the bonding of proteins to the surface of the artifacts a preliminary test of one of the artifacts was conducted.
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PROTEIN RESIDUE ANALYSIS OF A COPPER TOOL FROM THE GRACE PENINSULA SITE, ISLE ROYALE NATIONAL PARK, MICHIGAN. Jennifer L.B. Milligan. PRI Technical Report ,2013-126. 2013 ( tDAR id: 392770) ; doi:10.6067/XCV8JH3N4Q
Keywords
Investigation Types
Data Recovery / Excavation
General
13-126
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Protein Residue Analysis
Geographic Keywords
Keweenaw (County)
Individual & Institutional Roles
Contact(s): PaleoResearch Institute
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