Pollen (Material Keyword)

DOCUMENT Full-Text R.A. Varney.

Site 5LA5838 is a circular feature situated on a terrace above the Rio de las Animas Perdidas en Purgatario (Purgatory River). Onsite vegetation includes grasses, cholla and prickly pear cactus and sparse junipers. Riparian vegetation nearby includes willow and cottonwood. Seven stratigraphic pollen samples were analyzed for potential economic uses of plants at the site and to discern changes in the plant community in the area. One radiocarbon date at the site, 950±40 RCYBP, was reported...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings.

Twelve samples were collected stratigraphically at 10 cm intervals from sediments at 5LA6001. A human burial was recovered from this site and yielded a radiocarbon age of 820 + 130 BP. Pollen was also collected from fill in the burial pit for analysis. Pollen analysis of these samples provides an examination of past vegetation and paleoenvironmental conditions from prior to the time of burial to the present.

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

Goff Creek (48PA325) is located at an elevation of approximately 6400 feet in the Shoshone National Forest in Park County, northwest Wyoming. Thirty-seven stratigraphic pollen samples were examined to provide paleoenvironmental interpretations between approximately 6,000 BP and the present. The base of this record may represent a Paleoindian deposition; however, sediment accumulation between this level and approximately 6,000 BP was minimal or perhaps removed.

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

Mel's site is one of at least three lithic procurement areas associated with the Monument Ridge Quarry site located in southwestern Montana. Twenty-one pollen samples were collected at 10 cm intervals from a two meter pollen column. A bulk soil sample collected from the bottom of the column provides a radiocarbon age of approximately 5,150 + 60 BP (BC 4055 - 3795). A second radiocarbon age of 2630 +60 BP (BC 890 - 765 or 615 - 600) was obtained from the collagen of ungulate bone recovered...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings.

The Symphony Park area is located in a relatively low-lying area at the corner of Ward Avenue and Kapi'olani Boulevard, near downtown Honolulu and Kewalo Basin. Wetland deposits were noted below modern fill. These wetland deposits were cored for later sampling in the laboratory. Eighteen samples from the core were examined for pollen to provide information about both the local and generalized paleoenvironmental patters on this side of Oahu. Radiocarbon dates provide a basal age for this...

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

Archaeological excavation at the Crescent Shelter has spanned several decades. Cultural components noted extend from the Late Paleoindian to the Woodland and include the Altithermal period. The site lies along the hogback valley near Deer Creek. The site's location along the hogbacks, as well as its stratigraphy representing occupation from Paleoindian through Woodland made it a desirable location to examine the paleoenvironmental record for the Front Range of Colorado. The fact that this...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings.

The King site (24PH2886) is located in the Little Rocky Mountains of north-central Montana. This site contains Pelican Lake components that have been consistently dated elsewhere between 2000 and 3500 BP. In addition, McKean Complex materials are noted that may be assigned to 3500 to 5000 BP. The upper cultural component is the Mortlach Composite, which commonly dates around AD 1600 to AD 1720. Pollen analysis was undertaken on two stratigraphic columns to provide information to identify past...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings.

Fifteen samples collected stratigraphically from the Rattlesnake Slough site (34GR4) were examined for pollen. Nine of the samples represent a column collected from Test Unit 2 as contiguous 10 cm block samples. Two soil dates anchor the bottom and top of the area sampled in TU 2 as 8200 ± 100 BP and 6080 ± 110 BP, respectively. A modern surface sample also was examined. The remaining 5 samples were collected in 5 cm increments from soil core #3. A radiocarbon age of 9730 ± 60 BP was...

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

Six pollen samples from two excavation units at Tomcat Cave (10LN74) and two control pollen samples collected outside the cave were examined. The cave samples were collected stratigraphically through deposits in the two units to examine the paleoenvironmental record. The control samples provide information concerning vegetation outside the cave at depths corresponding to the middle to lower samples collected from cave deposits.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings.

Site 10EL217, situated across the river from Bancroft Springs, lies on a terrace overlooking the Snake River in Pasadena Valley. The test unit was excavated into alluvial fan sediments that overlie the river terrace sediments. Previous radiocarbon analysis suggests this area has been occupied at least intermittently for the past 3,300 years. Deeply buried archaeological deposits were encountered in the southern portion of the site, while the northern portion of the site has been impacted by...

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

The Field Brook Project involves archaeological investigations for replacement of the bridge that carries S 1015 over Field Brook in Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania. Excavations included five trenches, three of which were sampled stratigraphically for pollen. Upon examination of the stratigraphic sequence, two of these profiles were selected for pollen analysis (Columns 1 and 2). Stratigraphic pollen analysis was designed to provide a record of vegetation for individual levels within these...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings.

Pollen samples were collected stratigraphically from Unidad 22 at the Paredones site in the Huaca Prieta project area, Peru. The Paredones site is located north of Huaca Prieta, between the Pacific Ocean and an ancient lagoon. This site did not exhibit the burning that characterized Huaca Preita.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda J Scott. PaleoResearch Institute.

A pollen core was collected with a Giddings corer at site 24JF761 located near Montana City in Jefferson County, Montana. Pollen analysis at this site was designed to address environmental changes from a level preceeding the occupation to the present. Vegetation changes in the area of Montana City for the past 10,000 years have been inferred in a report addressing the environmental analysis and modelling by Dale Herbort (1987). Pollen sampling was designed to test this model and further...

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

The Bull Creek site, 34BV176, is located in the High Plains physiographic region of western Beaver County, Oklahoma. The site is located within the short grass prairie biome, and consists of the modern soil and a series of buried paleosols, dating from 11 ,070±60 RCYBP to the present. One of these strata, dated to 10,850+210 RCYBP, contained spirally fractured bison bone and flaked stone. This site is situated on a cutbank in a meander of Bull Creek. Pollen analysis of 34 stratigraphic samples...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings.

Twenty-three pollen samples were collected from stratigraphic deposits at Chalan Pale Arnold. At this writing, no information is available for the site or the strata. Pollen analysis identifies plants in the vicinity of the site at the time of sediment accumulation.

DOCUMENT Full-Text R.A. Varney.

Several cores were extracted from sediments of the peninsula between the Bush and Gunpowder Rivers near Edgewood Maryland. Samples were extracted at irregular intervals from eleven of these cores and submitted for environmental pollen analysis in order to assist in determining ages for strata underlying the peninsula. Accurate determination of biostratigraphic ages are difficult, at best, and require extensive, close-interval sampling to determine changes in frequency and the appearance and...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings.

Peat samples were examined at intervals of 10 centimeters from Corkscrew Swamp, Florida. Pollen samples represent the entire peat sequence in the Corkscrew Swamp, but the underlying marl was not sampled. The interface between the marl and peat has been dated to approximately 5000 BP by association with nearby dated profiles. Pollen analysis focused on identification of plants and changes in the plant communities near Corkscrew Swamp through time.

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

The Bull Creek North Site (34BV181) is located within 1 mile of the Bull Creek Site (34BV176). Thirty-four stratigraphic samples were examined for pollen from the Bull Creek site (Varney and Cummings 2004). Ten samples collected stratigraphically from Bull Creek North (34BV181) were examined for pollen. A radiocarbon age of 12300 ± 80 BP anchors the middle of the record in a clay loam stratum.

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

The Bull Creek site, 34BV176, is located in the High Plains physiographic region of western Beaver County, Oklahoma. The site is situated within the short grass prairie biome. Trees growing along Bull Creek today include elm, cottonwood, and hackberry. This series of sediments consists of the modern soil and a series of buried paleosols, dating from 13,210 RCYBP to the present. One of these strata, dated to 10,850K210 RCYBP, contained spirally fractured bison bone and flaked stone. The original...

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

A core was collected from sediments in a seasonally dry glacial kettle lake or pond near Bismark, North Dakota. These sediments are anticipated to represent most of the Holocene and possibly the latest Pleistocene. Pollen samples were collected at close intervals to provide the best possible evaluation of the paleoenvironment. In addition, eight radiocarbon ages were obtained on humates, since there was no charcoal observed in the core, to anchor the pollen record. Dates range from 4900 to...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings.

The Adrien's Landing project encompasses portions of the Holocene flood plain along the Connecticut River in downtown Hartford, Connecticut. This area has seen intensive historic use and probably was a favored location for Woodland villages between approximately 2000 and 300 years ago. Stratigraphic pollen and phytolith analysis was conducted on sediments from several cores removed from these flood plains. These sediments are thought to span approximately the past 12,500 years. Samples were...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings.

Stratigraphic pollen samples recovered from a 5.85 m deep section located in a recent placer mine cut along the north margin of the Barton Gulch Valley were examined to identify elements of the local vegetation and to reconstruct paleoenvironmental conditions from 10,360 BP to 3,900 BP. The Barton Gulch area was occupied by Paleoindians by 9,400 BP, and occupational strata are noted through approximately 3,900 BP (Davis et al. 1988, 1989; Davis 1993). Chronostratigraphic markers include stratum...

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

Eight stratigraphic pollen samples were collected from Recon John Shelter (5PE648), located along the bank of Turkey Creek a tributary to the Arkansas river. A late Archaic/Woodland occupation postulated at this cave, where the cultural deposits are deep. Ceramics were recovered from the upper levels, while projectile points were recovered throughout the deposits. Pollen analysis was conducted on the samples in an effort to address both paleoenvironmental conditions and evidence of...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings.

Fourteen stratigraphic samples were examined from Silver Lake in the Fort Rock Basin of Oregon to provide a pollen record that would inform about the paleoenvironment. Specifically, the pollen record was expected to provide information concerning vegetation growing around Silver Lake that human occupants of the Fort Rock Basin might have used as part of their subsistence base.

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

Sediments in the Wesley Chapel Gulf were cored to provide a stratigraphic record for examining past vegetation. Ninety-five pollen samples were examined from this core to provide close-interval examination of the paleoenvironmental record. At this writing, no information is available concerning the basal date for this core, nor the approximate time period of accumulation for the sediments. Frequent flooding and depositional hiatuses are noted for this area, creating a sediment record from...