Sediment (Material Keyword)

DOCUMENT Full-Text Kathryn Puseman.

Samples from several sites in the Ancho Canyon Mine Area, New Mexico, were examined for macrofloral remains. This area appears to be one where several cultures overlapped. Radiocarbon dates range from 290 B.C. to A.D. 1870, representing Late Archaic through historic Jicarilla Apache occupations. Macrofloral analysis is used to provide information concerning subsistence activities at these sites.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Kathryn Puseman. Chad Yost.

Four samples from the Dirty Shame Rockshelter (35ML65) in southeast Oregon were floated to recover macrofloral remains. This site is a large shelter (approximately 60 meters long) and was excavated as a part of the 2010 University of Oregon Archaeological Field School with support from Dianne Pritchard, Vale District BLM Archaeologist. Samples reflect fill from a pole and thatch structure (Feature 1), as well as sediments from levels within the shelter. Radiocarbon dates of 1140 ± 95 BP and 1175...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Kathryn Puseman. Chad Yost.

A total of eleven stratigraphic sediment samples from the Johnsondale Work Center, site CA-TUL-819, in southern Tulare county, California, were submitted for macrofloral analysis. A groundstone mano, a projectile point, and a blade from this site were submitted for protein residue analysis, while the groundstone mano also was washed to recovery phytoliths. This site consists of bedrock milling features and associated artifacts. Macrofloral, protein residue, and phytolith analyses will be used to...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Melissa K. Logan. Kathryn Puseman.

Fill recovered from an isolated roasting pit at site LA165923 in Eddy County, southeast New Mexico, was floated to recover macrofloral remains. Charcoal from the macrofloral sample was submitted for AMS radiocarbon dating. Three stones from the feature, as well as a control stone from the site surface, were examined for organic residues using Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy (FTIR). Macrofloral and organic residue (FTIR) analyses will be used to provide information concerning food...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Peter Kováčik. Linda Scott Cummings.

The CUC Fuel Pipeline Project, located in Puerto Rico, Saipan in the Northern Mariana Islands, revealed several prehistoric features and burials. Seven bulk soil samples collected from various features were submitted for macrofloral analysis to recover and identify charred botanic remains suitable for radiocarbon analysis. Additionally, bone collagen extraction and radiocarbon date was requested on human rib fragments collected from a single prehistoric burial. Seven charred botanic samples and...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Peter Kováčik.

Site 48CO3669 (Project locality 7614-1) represents a hearth located about 44 miles north of Douglas in Converse County, Wyoming. Four non-diagnostic lithics also were recovered at this locality. Soil from two 1 inch diameter cores, collected from a hearth feature, was submitted to recover charcoal suitable for AMS radiocarbon dating. Charcoal from this locality is expected to date between 5000 and 500 years BP (John Greer, personal communication March 31, 2015). Additional feature fill was...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Peter Kováčik.

Prehistoric Sites CM-1, CM-2, CM-3, and CM-4 lie in the Western Mojave Desert subregion northwest of California City in Kern County, California. Features exposed during RE Cinco Project construction grading activities in the area yielded numerous fire-affected rocks, charcoal, and ash (Christopher Duran, personal communication June 24, 2015 and April 20, 2016). Hearth fills from each site were collected for macrofloral analysis to recover and identify plants used by site occupants. In addition,...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Peter Kováčik. Linda Scott Cummings.

The Okami Site lies in the foothills of the Caucasus Mountains in Georgia. Four bulk soil samples collected from different units at this paleoseismic site were submitted for macrofloral analysis to recover charred floral remains suitable for AMS radiocarbon age determination. Microscopic charcoal extraction was requested for two samples that did not yield sufficient visible charcoal to date. A total of three radiocarbon dates were obtained.

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

Red Canyon Ranch, located in the foothills of the Owl Creek Mountains southwest of Thermopolis, Wyoming, contains evidence for multiple human occupations from Paleoindian to Historic times. Archaeological investigations and subsequent archaeobotanical analyses and radiocarbon age determinations span a period of several years and are currently ongoing. To facilitate these analyses, a single site designation of 48HO375 has been assigned. The earliest investigation centered on two hearths: one...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Kathryn Puseman. Linda Scott Cummings.

Samples from four prehistoric thermal features at site 26CK6658 were examined for pollen and macrofloral remains. Charred material from each of these features also was submitted for AMS radiocarbon dating. These features were examined as part of the Laughlin Regional Heritage Greenway Trail Monitoring Project in southern Nevada. This project is located along the Colorado River from Davis Dam south into the city of Laughlin. Pollen and macrofloral analyses were used to determine plant resources...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Peter Kováčik.

Prehistoric sites LA 183229 and LA 183231 are located northeast of Carlsbad in Eddy County, New Mexico. Burned caliche concentrations with ash and charcoal staining lacked any diagnostic materials. Soil samples collected from the stained areas at both sites were submitted for macrofloral analysis to provide information regarding paleoenvironment, plant processing, and fuel strategies of sites’ occupants. In addition suitable charred plant remains identified in these two samples were submitted...

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

Fill from a hearth at site LA 123811 (FB 8612) on the Fort Bliss Military Installation in Otero County, New Mexico, was floated to recover charred macrofloral remains, then obtain a radiocarbon date on identified charcoal. A groundstone recovered from the hearth fill was examined for pollen, phytoliths, and organic residues, the latter using Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy (FTIR). Ethnobotanic analyses of the hearth fill and the groundstone wash will be used to provide subsistence...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Peter Kováčik. Linda Scott Cummings.

Sites 5LA03269, 5LA03300, and 5LA05699 are situated in the Big Arroyo Hills within the Piñon Canyon Maneuver Site (PCMS), Las Animas County, Colorado (Wayne Thomas, personal communication October 6, 2017). Four features encountered at these sites were sampled for macrofloral and anthracological (charcoal) analysis to recover and identify charred floral remains and charcoal suitable for AMS radiocarbon age determination. Four radiocarbon dates were requested to ascertain period of use.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Kathryn Puseman. Chad Yost.

Sediment samples from inside the remains of a mill located at Saint-Grégoire de Bécancour in Quebec, Canada, were examined for phytoliths and macrofloral remains. The mill was built between 1785 and 1808 and was used until 1829 when it was sold. Today, only a small section of the cylinder and the foundations remain. Phytolith and macrofloral analyses may provide information on plant resources processed using this mill.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Peter Kováčik. Linda Scott Cummings.

The Cutter Lateral is one of the major pipelines comprising the Navajo-Gallup Water Supply Project (NGWSP) located in San Juan County and Navajo Nation land in northwestern New Mexico. A total of 51 features from 13 sites (LA178231, LA147736, LA171407, LA45824, NM-G-30-51, LA36578, LA156932, LA179182, NM-G-43-49, NM-G-34-56, NM-G-43-55, NM-G-34-48, and NM-G-34-46) encountered along three segments (Reach 22A, 22B, 21) of the Cutter Lateral and an off-site trench (BHT9) were sampled for...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Peter Kováčik. Linda Scott Cummings.

The 45th Avenue project site (Avenue 45th) is located on the southwest corner of Lincoln Avenue and Avenue 45 in Los Angeles, California. Four soil samples, collected from a boring and a trench in lacustrine deposits, were submitted for macrofloral analysis to recover and identify charred floral remains suitable for AMS radiocarbon age determination. Three samples from B-4 with expected dates between 15,000 and 6,000 years BP (John Helms, personal communication June 15, 2015) and one sample from...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Kathryn Puseman.

Four macrofloral samples were submitted for analysis from CA-ORA-3221/1118. Upon receipt of a prehistoric date for shells from the shell midden and a recent historic date for charred seeds, this project was canceled. Information presented below represents analysis completed prior to cancellation. All four macrofloral samples submitted were floated and one sample had been sorted and inventoried prior to cancellation of this project.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Kathryn Puseman. Melissa K. Logan.

Hearth/fire pit fill samples from sites CrNV-11-14170, CrNV-11-14197, and CrNV-11-14923 in Elko County, Nevada, were floated to recover charred macrofloral remains. Firecracked rock recovered from the macrofloral samples were tested for organic residues using Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy (FTIR). Charcoal or charred botanic material from each of the three macrofloral samples was submitted for AMS radiocarbon dating to provide temporal information about use of these features....

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

Ten samples from site LA 171726 at the Turner B South Tank Battery in Eddy County, New Mexico, were submitted for macrofloral, phytolith, and organic residue analyses. Seven samples were collected from features in an area of the site contaminated with chlorides and some oil. The remaining samples consisted of fill from two small, basin-shaped thermal features believed to represent hearths in an area of the site not affected by the spill. The results of analyses from samples not affected by the...

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

Samples were submitted for various analyses from sites 32OL531 and 32OL541 in Oliver County, North Dakota. Site 32OL531 is a prehistoric campsite consisting of 21 stone rings and one stone cairn, and site 32OL541 is a prehistoric campsite that consists of 19 stone rings and three cairns. Fill from possible hearth areas in 10 of the stone rings at these sites were floated to recover macrofloral remains, including charcoal for AMS radiocarbon dating. Sufficient charred material for dating was...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings. Peter Kováčik.

Site 13DB889 is situated within a historic, urban neighborhood along Rhomberg and Kniest Streets in the City of Dubuque, Iowa. The nineteenth to twenty-first century homes were occupied predominantly by working-class, German Catholic residents (Leah D. Rogers, personal communication August 10, 2016). Several privies, possibly used into the 1910s, were sampled for pollen, parasite, and macrofloral analyses. Pollen and macrofloral analyses of privy fill provide information concerning foods eaten...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Peter Kováčik. Linda Scott Cummings.

Site 42WS5162 is located in Washington County, Utah, near St. George, at elevations ranging from 800 to 1100 meters above sea level. The site falls predominantly within the Mojave Basin and Range Level III ecoregion (Patricia Stavish, personal communication October 17, 2017). Ten samples from various features were submitted for macrofloral, pollen, and/or FTIR analysis.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings. Caitlin A. Clark. Jenna Battillo.

Site 24DW0560 is a buried lithic scatter or temporary camp located in Dawson County, Montana, approximately 10.5 km west of the town of Lindsay. Twenty-one samples were submitted for a variety of analyses to better understand resource use among prehistoric huntergatherer populations. Eight lithic samples were submitted for protein analysis. Of the seven rock and sediment samples collected from fire-cracked rock (FCR) features, three were submitted for FTIR analysis, one for macrofloral, one for...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Kathryn Puseman. Chad Yost. Melissa K. Logan.

Column samples from site CA-SBR-9711 and from a hearth at site CA-SBR-11330 were floated to recover charred macrofloral remains to provide subsistence information concerning plant resources utilized at these sites. Protein residue analysis was conducted on two lithic flakes from CA-SBR-9711 and on a mano fragment from CA-SBR-9717 to determine if these tools were used for processing plant and/or animal remains. The mano fragment also was examined for organic residues using Fourier Transform...

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

A single sediment sample was recovered from Unit N971.87/E973.75 during Phase III excavations at the Betzwood Boathouse, located in Valley Forge National Historic Park, King of Prussia, Pennsylvania. This sample was examined for macrofloral remains and for organic residues using Fourier Transform Infrared Spectrometry (FTIR). Charcoal from the macrofloral sample was AMS radiocarbon dated. Three projectile points from the unit were analyzed for protein residues. Diagnostic artifacts suggest a...