Sample name: Mosquito Willie

Sample aka: 42TO137

Reference: J. C. Janetski. 2006. Mosquito Willie (42TO137): a Late Archaic site on the western edge of the Great Salt Lake Desert. Journal of California and Great Basin Archaeology 26(1):77-94 [ER 3172]

Lithology: not described

Taphonomic context: human accumulation

Archaeology: bone tools,hearths,stone tools

Habitat comments: "a cache and hunting camp" with cultural materials including hearths, chipped stone, ground stone, worked bone, shell and stone; no in situ ceramics were recovered, and it is not clear whether this was a settlement instead of a camp, with occupation likely to be "sporadic and seasonal"

Life forms: carnivores,rodents,ungulates,other small mammals,birds,snakes,fishes

Sampling methods: quarry,screenwash

Sample size: 558 specimens

Years: 2003

Sampling comments: "all sediments were screened with eight-inch screens"

Sample number: 3478

Contributor: John Alroy

Enterer: John Alroy

Created: 2019-09-05 14:47:34

Modified: 2019-09-09 02:47:18