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39LM238 is designated the Badger Component. Its artifactual re- 

 semblances to certain other sites in Minnesota, Nebraska, and South 

 Dakota indicate that it falls within the Plains Woodland Phase. The 

 possibility of a still earlier occupation at the Good Soldier site is 

 suggested. 



APPENDIX 



BONE AND VEGETAL IDENTIFICATION FROM THE GOOD SOLDIER 



SITE' 



BONE 



The small quantity of bone from the Good Soldier site was more or 

 less evenly distributed throughout the arbitrary half -foot levels of 

 the excavations. Buffalo {Bison bison) remains were by far the most 

 common, while the whitetailed deer {Odocoileus speleits), coyote 

 (Ganis latrans), kit fox (Vulpes velox), prairie dog {Cynomys ludo- 

 vicianus), and the cottontail rabbit {Syvilagus floridanus) are also 

 present. Included in the inventory are a few fish bones; however, 

 there was no evidence of fowl in the excavations. 



I have assigned all of the osseous remains recovered from the sur- 

 face, down to 1 foot in depth to the Good Soldier Component and 

 all below that depth to the Badger Component. The results are 

 shown in table 2. 



Table 2. — Osseous remains from Oood Soldier and Badger Components 

 GOOD SOLDIER COMPONENT 



BADGER COMPONENT 



' The fish bone was Identified by David H. Dunkle, United States National Museum. All 

 other bone was analyzed by Theodore E. White, Dinosaur National Monument. Norton H. 

 Nickerson, Washington University, identified the vegetal specimen. 



