PROTEIN RESIDUE ANALYSIS OF CHIPPED STONE TOOLS FROM SITE 3MN298, MONTGOMERY COUNTY, ARKANSAS

Site 3MN298 is a multicomponent habitation site located along the Upper Ouachita River near Oden in Montgomery County, Arkansas. Diagnostic artifacts at the site are attributed to the Middle Archaic (circa 6000–5000 B.C.), Woodland (circa 1000–0 B.C.), and Mississippian (circa 1450–1650 A.D.) periods, suggesting multiple occupations. Cultural features included clusters of fire-cracked rock, a large trash-filled pit, and post stains from a Caddo house. Five chipped stone tools and two soil control samples were submitted for protein residue analysis to identify the types of game procured and to contribute information on subsistence patterns in the Ouachita Mountains.3MN298遗址是一处多成分居住遗址，坐落于美国阿肯色州蒙哥马利县奥登附近的沃希托河上游（Upper Ouachita River）沿岸。遗址出土的诊断性遗物可归属于中古风期（Middle Archaic，约公元前6000年—公元前5000年）、林地期（Woodland，约公元前1000年—公元元年）以及密西西比期（Mississippian，约公元1450年—1650年），表明该遗址曾经历多次人类居住活动。遗址内的文化遗迹包括火烧岩簇、一处大型垃圾坑，以及卡多族（Caddo）房屋遗留的柱痕。研究人员送检了5件打制石器与2份土壤对照样品，用于开展蛋白质残留物分析，以明确该遗址先民所猎捕的猎物种类，并为沃希托山脉地区的生业模式研究提供相关资料。