THE USE OF IMMUNOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES IN THE ANALYSIS OF ARCHAEOLOGICALMATERIALS - A RESPONSE TO EISELE WITH REPORT OF STUDIES AT HEAD-SMASHED-IN BUFFALO JUMP

Eisele et al. in ANTIQUITY (1995) reported discouraging results from e xperiments to see if blood traces reliably survive on stone tools. Her e, issue is taken with aspects of that study, and new research is repo rted from the celebrated buffalo-jump at Head-Smashed-In, southern Alb erta. The great bone-bed there, consisting almost exclusively of bison bones, gives rare opportunity to study remains of a known single spec ies under the genuine conditions of an archaeological site, rather tha n a supposing simulation.