Lithic Technologies and Faunal Remains From a Terminal Pleistocene Pit Feature at Cooper’s Ferry, Idaho

Summary

This is an abstract from the "Archaeology from Western North America" session, at the 88th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

A new study at the Cooper’s Ferry site (10IH73) located in west central Idaho focuses on the contents of pit feature 110 of Area B. Feature 110 (F110) has been dated between ~9938 ± 36 BP (11,352–11,264 cal BP) and ~9867 ± 36 BP (11,278–11,223 cal BP) and contains WST points, debitage, and faunal remains. Notably, the F110 faunal record includes a burned canid cranium, a canid mandible, and a second unburned canid cranium fragment, indicating the presence of at least two canids within the feature. Lithic and faunal analysis provides insights into WST technological patterns, and I present the results of morphometric analysis to assess whether the canid remains represent domesticated dogs or other canids. I discuss the implications of these findings in the context of other late Pleistocene human-animal interactions in North America in order to better frame our understanding of the WST lifeway.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Archaeology from Western North America   •
• Society for American Archaeology 88th Annual Meeting, Portland, OR (2023)

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Abstract Id(s): 35957.0