Pollen (Material Keyword)

DOCUMENT Full-Text Kathryn Puseman. Linda Scott Cummings.

Samples from the lower organic levels of a privy at the Chief Ouray Homesite, 5MN847, near Montrose, Colorado, were examined for pollen, parasites, and macrofloral remains to identify elements of the diet and parasites present. Privy deposits are believed to represent use of the privy by Chief Ouray, his wife Chipeta, and Ute and Mexican tenants from 1876 to the 1890s. Privy fill from the 2nd Los Pinos Indian Agency (50R139East) near Montrose, Colorado, also was examined for pollen,...

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

Fill from three privy features and a possible privy/trash feature at the Manteno Townsite, 13SH27, in west-central Iowa was sampled for pollen, parasite, and macrofloral remains. This townsite is believed to date from the 1850s-1880s. The four features sampled were found in close proximity to one another but may reflect different use periods, although there may be some overlap. Pollen and macrofloral analysis of the three privy features will be used to provide information concerning foods...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Kathryn Puseman. Linda Scott Cummings.

Fill from three historic privies in Oakland, California, were examined for pollen, parasites, and macrofloral remains. This portion of Oakland was mostly a middle class, suburban neighborhood at the time of deposition. Features 17 and 40 are believed to have been used by German families and to date to ca. 1875. Feature 1 is a privy of unknown affiliation and is believed to date to the 1860s. Pollen and macrofloral analysis will be used to identify dietary and nondietary plant remains in the...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings.

La Alberca Rockshelter is a highland cliff painting site located in the Tancítaro volcanic range foothills, Michoacan, Mexico. The site exhibits Mesoamerican motifs on the primary rock panel, while Archaic motifs are distributed throughout the cliff walls. Excavations at the rockshelter recovered obsidian flakes, an obsidian arrowhead, a smoothing or polishing rock, faunal remains, and a human skeleton. The burial included grave goods, and upon further excavation, it appears to have been...

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

Two samples of coprolitic deposits or sediment containing human excrement from site LA 158037 were examined for pollen, parasite eggs, phytoliths, and macrofloral remains. This site is located in downtown Santa Fe, New Mexico, and was excavated as part of the Executive Office Building Data Recovery project. Samples were recovered from a cesspit or early septic tank used by the Beacham and Butler families during the early to middle 1900s. Analysis was undertaken to provide information concerning...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings.

The Isaiah Davenport House site is situated on Lots 13 and 14 in the northwestern corner of Columbia Square, Savannah, Georgia. Around 1810, Isaiah Davenport constructed a Federal style home and associated outbuildings on Lot 14 that were inhabited and used by his family and their enslaved household attendants. Isaiah Davenport purchased Lot 13 in 1812 and built a home at this location around 1820. This home currently stands as “...one of the oldest brick structures in the city...” (The LAMAR...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings. Peter Kováčik. Barbara Winsborough.

The Transbay Project encompasses large portions of San Francisco’s South of Market neighborhood on the western side of San Francisco Bay. Near the bottom excavation elevation, at the interface of Marine Sands with Lower Bay Mud, an individual burial was excavated. The burial included human remains and a woven mat that lined the pit and was folded over the top of the individual’s legs (Aimee Arrigoni, personal communication April 17, 2014). From this burial four soil samples were submitted for...

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

A total of ten sediment samples were examined microscopically to interpret the use of plant foods in historic Skagway. Samples were collected from areas of possible night soil use, privies, a possible grey water box, and from sediments under a saloon floor. All of the samples were examined for pollen and starch granule evidence of foods and for parasite eggs that would indicate parasitic infections. In addition, five of the samples were examined for phytolith analysis to augment the...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings. Kathryn Puseman. Rosa Maria Albert.

Samples from pit structures, pits, and a trash deposit at Area 15 of Pueblo Salado were examined for pollen, phytoliths, and macrofloral remains. Area 15 represents the easternmost component of Pueblo Salado and appears to be associated with an early Classic or even a late Sedentary occupation. Previous pollen studies at Area 8/9 and 14 of Pueblo Salado showed a strong association with riverine resources, and every macrobotanical sample contained maize remains. Pollen, phytolith , and...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Chad Yost. Linda Scott Cummings.

Site 12GR1783 is a multiple component site located in Greene County, Indiana, that spans Late Woodland to at least Late Prehistoric cultural periods. Feature fill sediment samples and lithic tools from site 12GR1783 were submitted for pollen, phytolith, starch and protein residue analysis to better understand plant and animal resources that were utilized by the occupants of this site.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings. Chad Yost.

Site 48CA959, located in the Porcupine watershed, yielded several Late Prehistoric, small diameter, cylindrical pit/oven features and at least one pit hearth. Calibrated radiocarbon ages reported for the pit/oven features range from AD 390 to AD 1000 and a corner notched Late Archaic point was found on site. Four pollen and phytolith samples were examined from a stratigraphic column to obtain a record of local vegetation from slightly prior to occupation until the present. Five of the pit/oven...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Chad Yost. Linda Scott Cummings.

Pernil Alto is located on the Rio Grande in an arid coastal desert in Southern Peru. Water is supplied by rivers from the Andes. Ten pieces of groundstone that included mortars and a single stone bowl fragment were washed and the resulting particles were submitted to PaleoResearch Institute for analysis to determine what plants were ground using these tools.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings. Chad Yost. Barbara Winsborough.

Three sediment samples were selected for preliminary pollen, phytolith, and diatom analysis from a 885 cm-deep core collected from glacial maximum-age sediments deposited in Devil’s Lake in the Baraboo Hills of south-central Wisconsin. This analysis was designed to assess the quality of the proxy data before the continuation of analyses of additional samples. Upon completion of this analysis and based on recovery of significant quantities of microscopic charcoal in the pollen samples, four...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings. Chad Yost. Kim Kral.

Four samples from the historic Charles Towne Landing site (38CH1-PSTS) were analyzed for archaeobotanical remains. Charles Towne Landing State Park is located along the west bank of the Ashley River, across the river from Charlestown, South Carolina, which occupies the east bank of the river. The park is situated on a peninsula surrounded by tidal, salt water marshes. Upland areas are primarily comprised of mixed hardwoods and grassy openings. Samples from two possible planting features and...

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

Samples from rooms and midden areas at Frank’s Pueblo, site LA 9032, were examined for pollen and/or macrofloral remains. This site is part of the Salinas Pueblo District in central New Mexico and is one of several small, plaza-oriented, aggregated masonry pueblos on the Chupadera Mesa that formed in the late AD 1200s. These early pueblos date to the Glaze A period, which refers both to the time period of occupation (AD 1200–1350) and the presence of Rio Grande Glaze A pottery sherds (Rautman...

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

Site 41DL436 lies in a floodplain of Fish Creek in Dallas County, Texas. Pollen and phytolith samples were collected stratigraphically from a column at this site as a feasibility study to examine preservation of these proxy data records. Four samples were examined for macrofloral remains to recover charred material for AMS radiocarbon dating. Charcoal from features in other areas of the site yielded radiocarbon dates from 110 BP to 1090 BP. Four AMS radiocarbon dates were obtained from various...

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

Samples from hearth, stone ring, or cultural lens features at sites 5SH1912, 5SH3386, 5SH3418, 5SH3439, 5SH3445, 5SH3484, and 5SH3503 were examined for pollen, starch, phytoliths, and/or macrofloral remains. In addition, a mano from 5SH3386 was washed to recover pollen, starches, and phytoliths, while AMS radiocarbon dates were obtained on charcoal from two hearths at 5SH3418. These sites are located in the Great Sand Dunes National Park and Preserve in southern Colorado. Pollen/starch,...

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

Five archaeological sites (AZU:15:241,AZV:13:145,AZV:13:152,AZV:13:160, and AZ V:13:162) in the Eastern Mining Area Survey Project in east-central Arizona were sampled for pollen, phytoliths, and macrofloral remains. These sites represent mainly Hohokam and/or Salado agricultural rock-pile fields. Samples were collected from field features as well as structures. Pollen, phytolith, and macrofloral analyses are undertaken to provide information concerning possible plants that might have been...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings.

Pollen, phytolith, and macrofloral samples were analyzed from 42KA3426 to contribute to the interpretation of the nature of the site. The occupation was radiocarbon dated to 520 ± 60 BP, which yields a calibrated age of AD 1330-1430, with a mean of AD 1380 ± 50. This occupation is post- Pueblo in age and contained no diagnostic artifacts. Located within the Southern Paiute homeland and within a few miles of the Navajo Reservation, the site contained three hearths and/or fire-cracked rock...

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

Soil samples from adobe-walled structures, surface rooms, pit structures, a pit house, extramural fire pits, a trash pit, and a midden at Area 6 of Pueblo Salado, Site AZ T: 12 : 47 (ASM), were examined for pollen, phytolith, and/or macrofloral remains. Four pieces of groundstone also were washed to recover phytoliths. Area 6 is believed to have been occupied for an extended period of time. Feature 20, a field house, is thought to date to the late Sacaton or early Soho phase, and...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings. Kathryn Puseman.

Samples from 2000 and 2001 excavations at the Backhoe Village, site 42SV662, in central Utah were examined for pollen, phytoliths, and/or macrofloral remains. Individual charcoal samples were identified prior to submission for radiocarbon analysis. This site is a Fremont habitation site with radiocarbon dates suggesting early to late Fremont associations. The Fremont are believed to have diverted water from local springs for farming. Pollen and macrofloral analyses are used to provide...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings. PaleoResearch Institute.

Four pieces of groundstone were washes for their pollen and phytolith content from the Bode's Draw site. Pollen and phytoliths were analyzed from these pieces of groundstone in an effort to determine what vegetal resources were processed with these tools. In addition, fill from two roasting features, termed ovens, was floated to recover charred macrofloral remains to assist in identifying subsistence activities at this site. Charcoal from these features, as well as a buried piece of wood...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings. Kathryn Puseman.

Soil samples from several sites in the U.S. Naval Reservation in the central portion of southern Guam were analyzed for pollen, phytoliths, and macrofloral remains. These sites consist of prehistoric latte sets, overhangs, and artifact scatters. Pollen, phytolith, and macrofloral analyses may be used to provide information concerning plant resources that were utilized by the various occupants of these sites. Starch granules, when present, are noted in the pollen and phytolith samples....

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings. Kathryn Puseman.

Soil from features at thirteen sites in the Barbers Point Naval Air Station area on O'ahu were examined for pollen, phytolith, and macrofloral remains. Features at these sites include modified and unmodified sinkholes, as well as habitation platforms, enclosures, and mounds. Pollen, phytolith, and macrofloral analyses are used to provide general information concerning plant availability and use at these sites

DOCUMENT Full-Text Kathryn Puseman. Linda Scott Cummings.

A single bulk soil sample from midden deposits in a trench profile on the Senior Housing Project portion of site CA-MNT-831 in Pacific Grove, Monterey County, California, was analyzed for pollen, phytoliths, and macrofloral remains. This site is currently the oldest known site on the Monterey Peninsula, with occupation primarily during Phase I of the Early Period. Many of the radiocarbon dates from this site fall between 5550-5770 years BP (Breschini and Haversat 2006:1). Pollen, phytolith,...