PROTEIN RESIDUE (CIEP) ANALYSIS FOR THE CEDAR FORK CREEK MASTODON SITE, MORROW COUNTY, OHIO

Summary

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 tools. The center of the site contains large amounts of bone fragments with evidence of cut marks. Five chipped stone scraper tools recovered from peripheral units further from the bone-dense units were submitted for protein residue analysis to determine what animals may have been processed at the site.

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