Site Structure and Zooarchaeology at the Boar's Tusk Site, Wyoming

• Published in: Plains anthropologist Vol. 45; no. 174; pp. 89 - 108
• Main Authors: Fisher, John W., Frison, George C.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Lincoln, NE Routledge 01-11-2000; Plains Anthropological Society; Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Subjects: America and Arctic regions; Archaeology; Bones; Charcoal; Dwellings; Epiphyses; Ethnoarchaeology; Fireplaces; foragers; Hunter gatherers; Hunting; Long bones; North America; Paleoanthropology; Preceramic cultures; Prehistoric era; Prehistory and protohistory; pronghorn; site structure; Tusks; Wildlife; zooarchaeology; Wyoming; United States of America; Site; Hunting; Seasonality; Ethnology; Method; Stone; Lowland site; Intra site; Archaeozoology; Economy; Diet; Distribution; Antelope; Comparatism; Bone; Charcoal; Spatial organization
• ISSN: 0032-0447; 2052-546X
• DOI: 10.1080/2052546.2000.11932025

The Boar's Tusk site is a Late Prehistoric or Protohistoric short-term probable campsite in southwestern Wyoming. Pronghorn predominates the bone assemblage. Site structure at Boar's Tusk is compared to campsites of Efe and Ju/' hoansi foragers of central and southern Africa. Features at Boar's Tusk were arranged in an oval configuration like the arrangement of dwellings generally seen at Efe and Ju/' hoansi campsites, but with much greater distance between features at Boar's Tusk. This may be the result of differing characteristics of the physical environment, such as density of vegetation, or of differences in the degree to which resources were shared between households.