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The use of immunological techniques in the analysis of archaeological materials — a response to Eisele; with report of studies at Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Margaret E. Newman ,
Howard Ceri  and
Brian Kooyman
Margaret E. Newman
Affiliation:
Departments of Biological Sciences & Archaeology, University of Calgary, Calgary AB T2N 1N4, Canada. E-mail: mnewman@acs.ucalgary.ca
Howard Ceri
Affiliation:
Department of Biological Science, University of Calgary, Calgary AB T2N 1N4, Canada
Brian Kooyman
Affiliation:
Department of Archaeology, University of Calgary, Calgary AB T2N 1N4, Canada. E-mail: bkooyman@acs.ucalgary.ca
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Eisele et al. in ANTIQUITY (1995) reported discouraging results from experiments to see if blood traces reliably survive on stone tools. Here, issue is taken with aspects of that study, and new research is reported from the celebrated buffalo-jump at Head-Smashed-In, southern Alberta. The great bone-bed there, consisting almost exclusively of bison bones, gives rare opportunity to study remains of a known single species under the genuine conditions of an archaeological site, rather than a supposing simulation.

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Antiquity , Volume 70 , Issue 269 , September 1996 , pp. 677 - 682
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd. 1996

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