Cut and Worked Bone

As with the assemblages recovered during earlier excavations of the Fredricks site, only a very small percentage of the bones recovered in 1986 were worked or exhibited cut marks. Worked bone consisted of a fragment of a deer radius beamer, two awls made from long bones of unidentified mammals, one perforated raptor talon, and a small fragment of perforated bird bone. Cut marks were observed on one indeterminate mammal long bone, 10 fragments of deer bones, and one bear cervical vertebra. The cut marks on the deer bones were located on fragments of two antlers, one ramus, three scapulae, one lumbar vertebra, one thoracic vertebra, one cervical vertebra, one sacrum, and one astragalus.