Pollen (Material Keyword)

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

Site 5RB3691 is located between the towns of Rangely and Meeker in western Colorado and is believed to represent the late Archaic Period . Five pollen samples were collected and analyzed from three pit features and a defined cultural stratum (Stratum 6) at this site. Two of the five pollen samples contained an insufficient concentration of pollen for interpretation. The remaining three samples provide information concerning possible plant resources processed at the site. Three artifacts...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings. Paul M. Miller.

The Kahanahou WWPS Upgrade and Sewer Improvements Project area in Kāne‘ohe, which includes Site SIHP #50-80-10-0343 and SIHP #50-80-10-8820, is located in the district of Ko‘olaupoko on the windward (ko‘olau) side of O‘ahu. Site SIHP #50-80-10-0343 represents the Kalokohanahou Fishpond, a loko kuapā (fishpond with seawalls) likely in use by the 14th century (if not earlier) and filled in the 1940s for residential development (G. Farley, personal communication, 3 June 2019; Kikuchi 1972:9,213)....

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

Nine pollen samples were examined from site 35GR1507 on the John Day River near Dayville in Grant County, Oregon. These samples represent a column through a probable house (Feature 3) that yielded a radiocarbon age of 4370 + 70 BP, a sample from Feature 2, a hearth, and test samples outside the features. Pollen and starch analyses were undertaken to learn about prehistoric vegetation at the time of occupation and use of plants by the occupants of this site.

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

Site 48CA959, located in the Porcupine watershed, yielded several Late Prehistoric, small diameter, cylindrical pit/oven features. Calibrated radiocarbon ages reported for these features range from AD 390 to AD 1000. Five of the features were selected for pollen analysis in an effort to assist in identifying plants that might have been processed. In addition, four pollen and phytolith samples were examined from a stratigraphic column to obtain a record of local vegetation from slightly...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings.

The Searcher Site in Brewster County, Texas contains multiple archaeological sites that are being examined individually. Site 02-387 represents a Late Paleoindian occupation. A pollen and starch analysis of fill from this feature was undertaken to provide information concerning the paleoenvironment and the types of plants that might have been processed.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings.

Site 48SU2800, located in the northern portion of the Green River Basin, yielded evidence of an Archaic occupation. Radiocarbon dates of 3050 ± 40 BP and 3990 ± 40 BP are reported for two of the features. Four basin hearth features were examined to recover pollen and starches that would provide information concerning plants processed by occupants of this site.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings.

Sites CA-MEN-3638 and CA-MEN-3678 were recorded by Pacific Legacy as part of the Caltrans Willits Bypass Project and are located in Mendocino County, California. Site CA-MEN-3638 is a prehistoric cultural deposit situated on the northern cut-bank of Upp Creek in the western region of the Little Valley wetlands. A ground stone pestle (Sample 0256) recovered from Site CA-MEN-3638 was submitted to PaleoResearch Institute for pollen and starch analysis. Site CA-MEN-3678 is a prehistoric lithic...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings.

Site NA 26053, a Prescott Culture site, is located north of the present town of Prescott. A metate was washed to recover pollen to identify plants ground, and two additional soil samples were collected nearby. All three samples were examined for pollen and starches to address food processing in this portion of the site.

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

A metate was recovered from Feature 1, a large storage pit that yielded a calibrated radiocarbon age of AD 1400-1450 on corn from the fill. This Late Plains Village or early Protohistoric site is located in a dune field between the Cimarron and Beaver River drainages in western Oklahoma. The grinding surface of the metate was washed to recover pollen evidence of foods that might have been ground.

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

A metate recovered from the Moneta Divide Housepit site in the interior Wind River Basin, Wyoming, was submitted for pollen and starch analysis. Radiocarbon ages for this housepit place occupation that yielded the metate approximately 5,390 + 40 BP.

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

A metate collected at site 48SW13159 on the Lost Creek Pipeline Data Recovery project was submitted for pollen and starch analysis. The site lies within the Great Divide Basin just below the crest of Chain Lakes Rim.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings.

White Coyote Draw (5RB2215) is a circular stone structure containing a hearth. A radiocarbon date of 850 ± tp BP was returned from fill in the cultural level (Gardner and Clarke, 2001). Pollen analysis was undertaken in an effort to provide additional information concerning subsistence and/or local vegetation at the time the site was occupied.

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

A single pollen and starch sample from a small carbon stain (Feature 2) was submitted for analysis. Feature 2 yielded a radiocarbon age of 900 ± 60 BP. This site is located in the Cedar Breaks area within the Mescalero Sands of southeastern New Mexico.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings. Chad Yost.

Sites CA-SDI-7074 and CA-SDI-7060 are located approximately 3 miles west of the town of Jacumba, California, near the boarder with Mexico. Various types of stone tools and sediment collected from three features at these sites were submitted for protein residue, pollen and starch analyses. Analyses were undertaken to better understand the plant and animal resources utilized by the site occupants.

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

Two fill samples from a hearth at site 5MF6175 in northwest Colorado were submitted for pollen and starch analysis. The site is believed to have been occupied during the Archaic Era, 400-6400 BC). These two samples will serve as indicators as to the value of future analyses for samples collected from hearth fill. Recovery of pollen and starches might identify possible plant resources available to the occupants of this site.

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

Twelve metate fragments and a single ceramic sherd from Swallow Shelter in central Colorado were examined to provide evidence of vegetal foods that might have been processed. These metates were recovered from levels 3 through 20, representing much of the stratigraphic sequence of occupation at this site. Radiocarbon ages associated with these levels range from 1100 to 3200 BP.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings.

Site 48CR9375, located in the eastern portion of the Washakie Basin, includes several open-air, hearth-tethered activity areas. Radiocarbon dates of 5850 ± 40 BP, 5350 ± 40 BP, and 5760 ± 40 BP were returned on two hearths and an isolated feature, respectively, indicating occupation at the end of the Great Divide phase and beginning of the Opal phase of the Early Archaic Period. A piece of groundstone recovered from an activity area adjacent to Feature 9, an unlined basin hearth, and a control...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings. Kathryn Puseman. Chad Yost.

Groundstone tools from excavation units at site CA-SDI-1313/14791 on Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton in northern San Diego County, southern California, were washed to recover pollen and starches derived from processing activities. Various levels of unit fill were floated to recover macrofloral remains from subsistence activities, while three lithic tools were submitted for protein residue analysis to determine plant or animal resources that were processed with these tools. This site contains a...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings.

Site 41CV389 is located at the confluence of Cowhouse and Table Rock Creeks in Fort Hood, Texas. Two samples were collected from features and analyzed for pollen and starches to find evidence of economic activity.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings.

Controlled excavations within Keauhou 2nd Ahupua’a, Hawai’i exposed stone architectural components of prehistoric agricultural, habitation, and/or work areas. Soil samples were collected at the base of the excavations (atop the underlying basalt bedrock and beneath the architectural features). Pollen and starch analysis of the soils samples was undertaken to determine floral elements on the landscape and to identify any cultigens present.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings.

A prehistoric open campsite, 48SU2326, located east of Sand Draw on a rolling plain, was excavated in association with pipeline trench construction. A cultural horizon (Stratum IIb) yielded evidence of a single occupation represented by numerous thermal basins (Brent Buenger, personal communication April 8, 2015). One modern surface sample and three stratigraphic samples, representing the cultural stratum and the strata immediately below and above it, were submitted for pollen analysis to...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings.

Site 48SW17760, located in Sweetwater County, Wyoming, documents a prehistoric camp on the east side of a low hill that occupies the eastern side of an interfluvial ridge in the northeastern portion of the Washakie Basin (Matthew Kautzman, personal communication May 4, 2015). Open trench inspection of 2010 pipeline construction and subsequent auger, shovel, and test units identified features and artifacts, dated to 1280 ± 40 BP, or the Uinta Phase (Matthew Kautzman, personal communication May...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings.

One groundstone and accompanying soil control sample were submitted for pollen and starch analysis from rockshelter site CA-MRP-0042/H in Mariposa County, California. The rock shelter opens to the west. The site is situated north of Tenaya Lake in a glacially scoured granitic basin west of the Sierra Nevada crest (Sonny Montague, personal communication, March 6, 2013). The surrounding vegetation includes lodgepole pine (Pinus contorta), western white pine (Pinus monticola), mountain hemlock...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings.

Twenty-three pollen samples were examined from five archaeological sites near Teasdale, Utah. These five sites are located along or in the floodplain of Cottonwood Creek.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings. Paul M. Miller.

Sites 5DA3208 and 5DA3419 are located south of the town of Parker in Douglas County, Colorado. A 2017 excavation of Site 5DA3208 by ERO Resources revealed a multicomponent prehistoric open camp centered on a knoll overlooking Newlin Gulch (Marcus Espinosa, personal communication, November 21, 2018). Based upon identification of associated cultural materials, ERO suggests that Site 5DA3208 was most intensely occupied during the Late Archaic period. Additional evidence for Early Ceramic and Middle...