ORGANIC RESIDUE (FTIR) ANALYSIS OF SAMPLES FROM SITE 48SW4757, SWEETWATER COUNTY, WYOMING

Charcoal from the fill of a basin-shaped hearth at the Elbee Village site (32ME408) was submitted for identification. This hearth was exposed in an erosional cutbank of the Knife River and contained an abundance of charcoal. The Elbee site is an extensive earthlodge village in west-central North Dakota dating to the A.D. 1500s. The hearth was found away from and stratigraphically below the level of the village and might reflect an earlier occupation of the area.已对埃尔比村遗址（32ME408）一处盆形灶坑填充堆积中的木炭样本送检以开展物种鉴定。该灶坑暴露于奈夫河（Knife River）的侵蚀陡坎中，灶体内富集大量木炭遗存。埃尔比遗址是坐落于北达科他州中西部的大型土屋（earthlodge）村落，年代可追溯至公元16世纪。该灶坑的位置远离村落居住层，且地层学上低于村落堆积层，这或反映了该区域更早的人类居住活动。