Continuing the Search for Pre-Clovis Aged Cutmarked Bones in the Great Basin: Recent Results

Summary

Hockett and Jenkins (2013) suggested that two bones directly AMS dated prior to the Clovis era (ca. > 13,100 calendar years ago) recovered from the Paisley Caves, Oregon, displayed stone tool cutmarks. Since this publication, additional bones were identified as possibly exhibiting cutmarks from Paisley Cave #2. In addition, in the 1950’s Phil Orr recovered a number of burned large mammal bones from Pleistocene-aged deposits in several caves flanking the eastern margins of the Winnemucca Lake Basin, northwestern Nevada, including Fishbone Cave. Bones exhibiting possible cutmarks from both Paisley and Fishbone Caves were directly AMS dated, utilizing the same methodology described in Hockett and Jenkins (2013). The results are reported for the first time in this presentation.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Society for American Archaeology 81st Annual Meeting, Orlando, FL (2016)   •
• From Dirt to Behavior: Papers in Honor of David B. Madsen

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