Pollen (Material Keyword)

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda J. Scott. PaleoResearch Institute.

Ten pollen samples from five prehistoric hearths (site 5MF95B) were submitted for analysis by the Powers Elevation Company. The site is located in Section 12, T 11N, R 100W, Moffat County, Colorado, during the archaeological monitoring of well pad and access road construction. The sampling design employed at this site was developed and implemented by the archaeologists at powers Elevation. The fill of five hearths exposed by the bulldozer prior to well pad construction were sampled, as...

DOCUMENT Full-Text R.A. Varney.

The East Franklin Mountain fault is located in the area of EI Paso, Texas. A paleoseismic trench across the fault encountered at least three buried soils. The third of these, 13Kb3, radiocarbon dated to 29,520 ± 260 BP, was sampled as suspected cienega deposits in order to assist in determinating vegetation in the area during the time of development of this soil. Samples were analyzed for pollen and plant macrofossils. Modern vegetation on the alluvial fans in the area consists of sparse...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings. Thomas E. Moutoux. Kathryn Puseman. Laura Ruggiero.

Four pollen samples and one macrofloral sample from a pit house (Feature 1) at Site AZ U: 1 0:33(ASM) in southern Arizona were examined. This site is a prehistoric village consisting of several pit houses and numerous trash mounds. Subsistence practices and settlement patterns were among the research objectives of this study. Pollen and macrofloral analyses of these samples will provide data to assist in understanding subsistence practices at this site and might be helpful in interpreting...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings. R.A. Varney.

The Buck Draw site (48SW883) is located northeast of Wamsutter, Wyoming on the eastern flank of the Great Divide Basin. Three components were identified in the field and radiocarbon dated to 1400 ± 50 and 1820 ± 70 BP for Component I (the upper component), 5970 ± 50 BP for Component II (the middle component), and 5930 ± 40 BP and 5840 ± 40 BP for Component III (the lower component). Pollen was examined from sampled collected both inside and outside of features. In addition, FTIR (infra-red)...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings. Melissa K. Logan.

Site 48CR310 contains evidence of multiple occupations along the northeastern margin of the Ferris Mountains in central Wyoming. Component 1, an intensive occupation, represents a short-term bison processing camp. Component 2 represents an ephemeral occupation. Four stratigraphic samples were examined for pollen evidence of vegetation and fill from a thermal basin was examined for organic residues using Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy (FTIR). FTIR analysis provides information concerning...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings. Melissa K. Logan.

Site 48CR332, a multicomponent site, is located along the southeastern margin of the Ferris Mountains in central Wyoming. It is situated at an elevation of 6250 feet above sea level at the mouth of Sand Creek Canyon. The canyon is formed by the Ferris Mountains to the west-southwest and Bear Mountain to the south- southeast. A small intermountain basin opens to the north-northeast of the site. Nine stratigraphic pollen samples represent all five components noted at the site, which range from...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings. Melissa K. Logan. R.A. Varney.

Seven fill samples from a housepit site (48NA4588) in Natrona County, Wyoming were submitted for pollen and organic residue analyses. Samples were examined for organic residues using Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy (FTIR). Analysis of pollen and organic residues are used to gain information regarding diet and food processing, as well as to identify the paleoenvironmental signal.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings. Melissa K. Logan.

Three core samples recovered from two underwater sites (GA426 and HI178) on the outer continental shelf off the Texas coast in the Gulf of Mexico were submitted for pollen and organic residue analysis. Two of the samples were examined for organic residues using Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy (FTIR), and two were examined for pollen. Pollen and organic residue analysis will be used to determine if the core samples represent sites on land or deposition of floral remains blown to sea.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings. Melissa K. Logan.

Twenty-one sediment samples from seven culturally modified pits excavated into lava flows in the Pohakuloa Training Area, Hawai’i were submitted for pollen and organic residue analysis. Six additional sediment samples from a Hawai’ian Petrel nesting area on Mauna Loa, located in Hawai’i Volcanoes National Park, were submitted as FTIR control samples representing modern avian activity. These samples were made available specifically to answer the need for identifying the possibility that the...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings.

The Leon Family Farmstead, AZ 88:13:505 (ASM), was occupied between the mid-1840s and the early 1920s. The Leon Family was one of the wealthier Mexican families in Tucson. They farmed along the Santa Cruz River, raised cattle, and operated a store. Samples were collected from a variety of locations at this site, including borrow pits, a possible garden plot, and an ashy layer in a well to examine pollen that might represent food and/or ornamental plants. If human waste was deposited in any of...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings. Thomas E. Moutoux.

Four pollen/parasite samples, representing three outhouses were examined from the Connie Chambers archaeological project. These outhouses were used primarily between the 1890s and 1920s. Historic records indicate this area of Tucson was settled by working-class Mexicans in the late 19th century. Pollen and parasite analyses were conducted on these samples to examine evidence for diet and parasitic infestation.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings.

The Reher Historical Site, located in the City of Kingston, Ulster County, New York, housed a kosher bakery operated by the Reher family in the early 20th Century. Sample 1796.36.1 was collected from Feature 16, a stone-lined drain that passes beneath stone walls and a brick catchbasin in an urban, rear courtyard. Sediments from this feature were submitted for parasite and pollen analysis to assist in determining the function of this drain.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings.

Site LA 158037, located in downtown Santa Fe, New Mexico is comprised of seven selfcontained vault privies from the 20th century (ca 1910 to 1935), which held Hispanic and Anglo waste. A total of seven coprolite samples, one from each of the seven self-contained vault privy features, were submitted for pollen and parasite analysis. The goal of the analysis was to identify foods consumed by and parasites resident in the population that used these privies.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings.

Six pollen samples were examined from the Harper Terraces (46JF237) in Lower Town Harpers Ferry. These samples represent modern fill through a probable occupational level. Pollen analysis was undertaken to provide information concerning local historic vegetation and use of the terrace. In particular, evidence for gardening was sought.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings. R.A. Varney.

Companion pollen and phytolith samples were examined from eight samples representing five Individual sites In Great Sand Dunes National Monument, Colorado. These samples all represent fill from charcoaI stains, possible hearths, basin-shaped hearths, or deflated hearths. The objective in collecting and analyzing these samples was to obtain information concerning the plants that the occupants of these sites chose to cook in these features. It is also a fact that fill samples record evidence...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings. Thomas E. Moutoux.

Twostratigraphic columns were collected along Lime Creek and examined for pollen and phytoliths. The Red Smoke site is situated upcreek less than half a mile from the Lime Creek site, examined previously (Cummings 1990), and the Stafford site is another 1.5 miles upstream from the Red Smoke site. A basal date of 9820 + 80 BP was obtained for the Red Smoke site. An upper date was determined to represent unrelated channel fill. Dates near 10,500 BP were obtained for both the top and bottom of...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings.

The Mattei Site (38BU1765) is a Late Archaic site situated on an elevated marine sand deposit in an upland area of the Atlantic coastal strand near the May River in Beaufort County, South Carolina (Daniel Elliot, personal communication, November 12, 2019). Stalling Phase pottery sherds, chert tool fragments, and multiple features were noted at the site. Sediment samples were collected from two distinct features and submitted for pollen and phytolith analysis.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings. Thomas E. Moutoux.

Stratigraphic samples were collected at 6 cm intervals through deposits of an ancient playa associated with archaeological site 48PA2405. Four strata were recorded, the lowest representing an organic mat that probably represents Pleistocene deposits, an organic silty-sand-clay level that yielded a radiocarbon age of 18,570 ± 170 BP based on organics collected between pollen samples 38 and 42, followed by fine silty sand deposits, and finally soil as the uppermost stratum. Given the early...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings. Thomas E. Moutoux.

The Abingdon Plantation site (44AR18) is situated on previously level terrain approximately 60 feet above sea level overlooking the Potomac River in Arlington, Virginia. Stratigraphic pollen and phytolith analysis was performed at close intervals on a series of seven samples from a column in Unit 21. These samples represent Stratum F, which should represent 18th century occupations and may contain garden deposits, as well as a small amount of the overlying Stratum E, which has been dated to...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings. Thomas E. Moutoux.

The Abingdon Plantation site (44AR18) is situated on previously level terrain approximately 60 feet above sea level overlooking the Potomac River in Arlington, Virginia. Stratigraphic pollen and phytolith analysis was performed at close intervals on a series of fourteen samples from a column in Unit 21 and eight samples from Unit 70. Samples from Unit 21 represent Stratum F, which represents 18th century occupations and may contain garden deposits, as well as a small amount of the overlying...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings.

Five sediments samples were selected from Site Ca-IMP-7750 for pollen and phytolith analysis. Two samples were collected from the floor or immediately above the floor in a house structure. Two additional samples represent midden outside the house. The fifth sample was collected as a control sample beneath the midden. Pollen and phytolith samples were examined to provide evidence concerning subsistence activities at this site, which appears to have been a fish camp.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings.

Seven soil samples from K088-3, an island in the Snake River, were examined for pollen and phytoliths. The purpose of this study was to recover pollen and phytolith records and assess them for their ability to reconstruct past vegetation. The samples were collected stratigraphically from depths ranging from 94 inches to the surface.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings.

Ten pollen and ten phytolith samples were examined from site 50-10-31-5003. Pollen samples were collected stratigraphically from layers in a lava tube to examine the prehistoric vegetation record. Phytolith samples were collected from individual pits created by breaking the tops of large bubbles in the lava and creating pits. It is possible that sweet potato was grown in the pits and that they were mulched.

DOCUMENT Full-Text R.A. Varney. Linda Scott Cummings.

The Ronsavalle's Gulch site, located on a gypsum plain between the Delaware Mountains to the west and the Rustler Hills to the east, includes both Archaic and Late Prehistoric artifacts. Radiocarbon ages from the hearths are reported as 3250 BP for the Archaic occupation and cluster at 870 and 940 BP for the Late Prehistoric occupation. Four pairs of samples were recovered from sediment in an arroyo cut near the archaeological features and examined for pollen and phytoliths to provide...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings.

Two sediment samples were collected from 46BY117 near the Cumbo Yard Tract of the Berkeley County Industrial Park, Berkeley County, West Virginia. These samples were collected from two features interpreted to represent slave houses. Pollen and phytolith analyses were conducted to identify economic activities associated with these houses.