New Radiocarbon Dates from the Late Paleoindian Cody Complex Component at the Lamb Spring Site, Douglas County, Colorado

Knell, Edward J.; Lee, Craig M.

doi:10.1080/20555563.2020.1762408

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“…These include extensive collections housed in the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History (NMNH), and particularly materials stored in the Departments of Anthropology and Paleobiology from several important archaeological and paleontological sites, as well as a broad range of palaeobiological reference specimens. These collections were obtained during the late 19 th through to the 21 st centuries, and provide excellent resources for morphometric studies, radiocarbon dating, stable isotope analyses, genetics, and proteomics (see Graham, 1981;Stanford et al, 1981;Rick et al, 2019;Knell and Lee, 2020). To explore the potential of ZooMS analysis for the study of museum-housed North American megafauna, we conducted a pilot ZooMS investigation of bone fragments from six Late Pleistocene archaeological sites held in the collections of the NMNH.…”

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A new legacy: potential of zooarchaeology by mass spectrometry in the analysis of North American megafaunal remains

Antonosyan,

Hill,

Jodry

et al. 2024

Front. Mamm. Sci.

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Museum legacy collections, often derived from large-scale archaeological excavations, can serve as paleoenvironmental archives of Late Pleistocene megafaunal composition and dynamics. Many of these collections, however, contain large quantities of highly fragmented and morphologically indistinct bones that cannot be identified to a specific taxon and are therefore of limited use to paleoenvironmental and archaeological analyses. Here, we explore the potential of Zooarchaeology by Mass Spectrometry (ZooMS) to identify fossil bone fragments and complement morphological identifications in legacy collections housed at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History. To undertake this work, we collected fragmented bone specimens of Late Pleistocene megafauna from six archaeological sites in Colorado that are currently housed in the Department of Anthropology, and then performed pilot ZooMS screening. Our analysis successfully retrieved taxonomic information from 80% of the analyzed material, highlighting the potential of future ZooMS studies on museum collections to investigate human-megafaunal interactions in late Pleistocene North America.

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