Pollen (Material Keyword)

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings. Jaime Dexter.

Site 41MV145 is located approximately six miles east of the Rio-Grande near the western edge of Maverick County in south Texas. The Archaic site was originally recorded as a light surface scatter of burned rock and lithic debris. Subsequent subsurface reconnaissance was conducted, revealing cultural materials to a maximum depth of 70 cmbs, with the densest artifact concentration in the upper 30 cm. The artifact assemblage included a Clearfork biface and a Nueces biface, as well as lithic...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings.

Site 38CH1541, dating to the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, represents the main Mullet Hall Plantation settlement. Mullet transferred the property to James Legare, but there is little evidence of occupation postbellum. Samples from three Colonial era trash pits, two wall trenches, and four storage pits, were examined for pollen and phytoliths to inform concerning economic activities at the plantation. Site 38CH1542 includes two linear slave settlements, appearing on maps in 1854. One...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings.

The Fort Benning Data Recovery Project includes eight sites within Chattahoochee County, west-central Georgia. Sites 9CE1041 and 9CE1942 are situated in the sand hills of the Coastal Plains, near Columbus, Georgia. One sediment sample from each was submitted for pollen and phytolith analysis to ascertain environmental and cultural information from these sites.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings. Chad Yost.

Fill samples from a possible agricultural mound at site CSH 53 and a basalt mound at site CSH 62, Maui, Hawaii, were submitted for pollen and phytolith analysis. These analyses were undertaken to identify what plants were grown at the agricultural mound and identify a function for the basalt mound.

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

Combined pollen and phytolith samples were examined from three features at 32MO1374 and 32MO1375, located in Morton County, North Dakota. Site 32MO1374 is located on the bank of Otter Creek, while site 32MO1375 lies on the terrace above the creek. Pollen and phytoliths were examined to provide information concerning vegetation at the time of occupation and also identify plants processed in these features.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings. Jammi L. Ladwig.

Soil samples from the East Garden of the 18th-century Stratford Hall Plantation in Westmoreland County, Virginia, were submitted for pollen and phytolith analysis. Results will be used to assist with the process of identifying plants cultivated in the possible planting bed features of the garden.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings. Chad Yost.

Five soil samples from the Lower Creek Road Site (SUBi-2677; NYSM-11736) located in Tompkins County, New York, were submitted for pollen and phytolith analysis. The site is associated with a farmstead that was built prior to 1853 and demolished by 1900. This analysis was undertaken to better understand production and consumption activities and their associated work areas.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings.

The Palawai 9 project area is situated on Manele Bay of Lanai Island within Maui County, Hawaii. Two samples from a possible agricultural mound and a terrace of unknown function at Site T-06112013-1 were submitted for pollen and phytolith analysis. Analysis was undertaken to address use of the mound and terrace and to help determine if either represents pre-contact Hawaiian occupation.

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

Fifteen manos and metates from the Talega Site (CA-ORA-907) were submitted for pollen or phytolith analysis. This multi-occupation, habitation site yielded radiocarbon ages that ranged in age from 500 to at least 9,620 BP, while dates from the third pedostratigraphic unit ranged from cal BP 4370-3800. Older features from the fifth pedostratigraphic unit are estimated to range in age from 6,000 to 8,000 years old (Personal communication, Michael Tuma, July 27, 2004). Seven of these...

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

The Three O'clock Shelter (5WL1997) is a multi-component rockshelter located in the West Stoneham Archaeological District of the Pawnee National Grassland in northeastern Colorado. Six pollenand phytolith samples were collected from several culturally affiliated layers in and around the rock shelter. The seventh sample previously was examined (Cummings et al. 1995) and was integrated with the present data base. The samples generally represent areas of low cultural impact or areas peripheral...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings. Chad Yost.

Previous pollen analysis of a sample associated with a burial from site 41HY163 in south-central Texas yielded possible evidence of Zea mays pollen. Because the identification was tentative, an additional soil sample was submitted to PaleoResearch Institute for testing. Pollen and phytolith analyses were conducted for the specific purpose of finding any evidence for the presence of Zea mays or to find pollen types that might be confused with Zea mays. After completion of the pollen and phytolith...

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

Previous pollen analysis of a sample associated with a burial from site 41HY163 yielded possible evidence of Zea mays pollen. Because the identification was tentative, an additional sample was submitted to Paleo Research Institute for testing. Pollen and phytolith analyses were conducted for the specific purpose of finding any evidence for the presence of Zea mays or to find any suspicious looking remains that might be confused with Zea mays.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings.

Two sediment cores from Drayton Hall were submitted for pollen and phytolith analysis of sediments at two depths for each core to search for evidence of rice agriculture. Core 1 was collected from the middle portion of the basin, while Core 2 represents the upper portion. Two pollen and two phytolith samples were examined from each core after it was opened and described.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings.

Ten sediment samples from two cultural settings and a control setting were examined for pollen and phytoliths. These samples are part of a study of the modern record of human activity at these sites, which are currently occupied. Sites A and M represent areas of occupation, while site C represents the control setting. Pollen and phytolith analysis yielded an abundance of remains.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings. Chad Yost.

The Blackwater Draw Locality on the llano estacado in northeastern New Mexico has been the focus of archaeological study intermittently over the past several decades. Analysis including both pollen and phytolith proxy records was undertaken to provide paleoenvironmental information for time periods it spanning from the Folsom occupation into post-occupational sediments. Four localities within this area were selected for the initial testing. In part, this testing was exploratory in nature to...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings. Chad Yost.

Four sediment samples representing buried A horizons at the Military Trail and Badger Hole sites in the panhandle of Oklahoma were submitted for pollen and phytolith analysis to determine the extent of preservation. The Military Trail profile is located in Harper County, Oklahoma approximately 1 mile from the Jake Bluff and Cooper bison kill sites. The Badger Hole site is located approximately 300 m from Jake Bluff. Preliminary pollen and phytolith analysis of these sediments was undertaken to...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda J. Scott. PaleoResearch Institute. Rhoda O Lewis.

Site 23DU227, located in Dunklin County, southeastern Missouri, is situated in a present-day soybean field. The area surrounding the site includes, in addition to the fields, a man-made irrigation ditch (Ditch 19) and Crowley's Ridge, which is covered with an oak-hickory complex. This forested ridge supports an assortment of broadleaf trees including white oak, northern red oak, chinquapin oak, walnut, butternut, beech, tulip tree, cucumber tree, basswood, and cedar. The ridge is currently...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings.

Site MU 125A is located near the south rim of the Grand Canyon and has no temporal cultural affiliation. Pollen and phytolith analyses were conducted on sediments from four terraces within an agricultural terrace system at this site. Pollen and phytolith analysis address identification of remains from possible agricultural use of these terraces.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings.

Sixteen pollen and phytolith samples were examined from the North Family Lot Site, 33WA407, in Warren County, Ohio. The site, occupying approximately four acres, was part of a Union Village Shaker community from the beginning of the nineteenth century through the early twentieth century. Pollen and phytolith analyses were conducted to document land use within specific locations that will contribute to understanding overall land use patterns at the site.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings.

Four pollen and phytolith samples were examined from shell pits at 38CH1693. This site yielded four radiocarbon ages that indicate occupation between approximately 3720 ± 50 or 60 BP and 3930 ± 50 BP. A fifth phytolith sample was examined from a roasting pit at this site. These analyses were conducted to examine the microscopic record for prehistoric vegetation and potential uses of these pits. Whole oyster shells were recovered from all of the pits, although burned shells are reported only...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings.

Pollen and phytolith analysis of stratigraphic samples from 23CK57 form the basis for understanding the Early and Late Paleoindian eras, as well as the Late Archaic through Woodland time periods. The hiatus visible in the record appears to have removed sediments that date between approximately 8000 and 3000 RCYBP, based on original assessments of the stratigraphy at the site. Radiocarbon ages between 1380 and 1210 RCYBP are reported in the upper sediment package.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings. Chad Yost.

Site 48CA2834, a lithic scatter and campsite located on private land on the east and west sides of Holmes Draw drainage, was excavated over a period of years. A single sediment sample collected from a living surface observed at the site, located in Campbell County, Wyoming, was examined for pollen and phytoliths to identify economic activity on the surface.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings.

Three soil samples collected from the Custis Square house site (04BC), located in Williamsburg, Virginia, were submitted for experimental pollen and phytolith analyses to inform the sampling strategy for Colonial Williamsburg archaeologists. Three different depositional environments were selected for review. Pollen analysis was conducted on all three types of samples, while phytolith analysis contributed to understanding two of the contexts.

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

The Rigdon Meadows Site (35LA343) is located within the Rigdon Ranger District of the Willamette National Forest, Oregon. The site covers approximately three acres and extends beyond the meadow into the adjacent and surrounding forest. Both prehistoric and historic artifacts are noted at this site. Four stratigraphic soil samples were recovered from a test unit immediately adjacent to Rigdon meadows, and were submitted for pollen and phytolith analysis. The pollen and phytolith record help...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings. Chad Yost.

Sites 26847, 26852, and 13384 are located on the lower slopes of the volcanic peak of Hualālai in Kailua-Kona, Hawai’i. Ten fill samples from an open agricultural area, an agricultural wall, and a habitation/activity enclosure within these sites were submitted for pollen and phytolith analysis. The goal of the analysis is to identify plant resources utilized by the occupants of this site.