Excavation of part of the Bosman site, a Wellsburg phase site (A.D. 1520-1580) located in Muskingum county, Ohio, revealed four structures and associated features within a palisade. Nineteen mammalian species, one bird, five reptiles, one amphibian, five fishes, two gastropod species, and an undetermined number of mollusc species were identified in the sample of 70,293 faunal remains. Faunal resources are almost equally distributed across three seasons of the year from late spring through fall. While the dominant food resources appear to have been elk, deer, turtles, turkey, fish, and bear, the amount of beaver remains recovered from the Bosman site, is greater than expected if the proportion of beaver is simply a function of sampling. Bosman site inhabitants may have been participating indirectly in Indian-European trade networks. The intensity of processing of faunal resources suggests pressure from some direction, perhaps resulting from the effects of the fur trade, on subsistence.
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