Nets and snares for capturing small game require specific types of cordage and specific knotting techniques.

Carrying devices — bags, baskets, nets — that extend the ability of people to transport food, water, and equipment are all fiber-dependent technologies.

The presence of fiber production at Paisley, even in fragmentary evidence, documents a material culture that was substantially more comprehensive than the stone tool evidence alone would suggest.

The Seasonal Dimension of Cave Occupation

The Paisley Caves were not necessarily occupied year-round.

The evidence from the coprolites and associated materials suggests that the site may have been a seasonal destination — one location in a broader pattern of movement through the Great Basin landscape that took people to different resources at different times of year.