Sediment (Material Keyword)

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

Site AZ T:12:206(ASM), formerly AZ T:12:54(ASU), represents agricultural field cells, lateral canals, and an artifact scatter on an alluvial terrace above the north bank of the Salt River in Maricopa County, Arizona. Given its proximity, Site AZ T:12:206 may be an extension of the previously recorded village Site AZ T:12:52(ASM). During Phase II data recovery of the site, WestLand Resources, Inc. revealed prehistoric lateral canals (running more-or-less parallel to the Salt River) in association...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Chad Yost.

Sediment samples from two pit features were submitted for phytolith analysis from site 40LD221, located in Loudon County, Tennessee. These are Woodland period features that appear to have been used as storage pits. Phytolith analysis was undertaken to better understand the function of these features and their contents.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Chad Yost.

Four soil samples were submitted for phytolith analysis from the Weir Farm NHS property, located in Fairfield County, Connecticut. The goal of the analysis was to recover and identify plant opal phytoliths derived from some of the plants that may have been grown within the historic garden area that is currently a terraced lawn west of the Weir House (Area 1).

DOCUMENT Full-Text Chad Yost. Kathryn Puseman.

Ten phytolith samples were examined from a Jefferson-era layer in an area believed to be associated with a clump of ornamental trees and bushes planted in 1812 at the northeast corner of the octagonal house located at Poplar Forest plantation in Forest, Virginia. An oval flower bed planted with dwarf roses was established nearby. Four additional phytolith samples were taken from features directly associated with the ornamental tree clump and flower bed. For this study, phytolith analysis was...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings.

Outside of the city of Lynchburg, Virginia, Thomas Jefferson constructed his Poplar Forest retreat house near the center of his Bedford County plantation in 1806. A large carriage turnaround in front of the north side of the main octagonal portion of the house, as well as the surrounding five acres of grounds, were planted with ornamental landscaping. A circular road lined with trees bounded the property. Archaeological investigations of the turnaround have exposed various features associated...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Chad Yost.

The Bull Creek III site is situated in a short grass prairie biome along side the Bull Creek in the High Plains physiographic region of western Beaver County, Oklahoma. Although the location has not been reported as a cultural site, three sediment samples were submitted for phytolith analysis. The goal of the analysis was to provide greater clarity on the types of grasses on this landscape between 12,550 and 13,210 RCYBP.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Chad Yost.

Site CEEU-4 is bordered by the Cap Rouge and St. Lawrence Rivers to the west, and is approximately 15 kilometers west of Québec City, Canada. The site is a 16th Century settlement know today as Fort Cartier-Roberval. Samples were collected by site CEEU-4 researchers and submitted to PaleoResearch Institute for phytolith analysis. The goal of the analysis was to recover and identify diagnostic phytoliths that could aid in identifying subsistence practices by the site occupants. Phytolith analysis...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Chad Yost. Linda Scott Cummings.

A total of 16 soil samples from the Coctaca site, located in Jujuy Province, Argentina, were submitted to PaleoResearch for interlab cross-checking of phytolith extraction techniques and analysis. Stratigraphic soil samples from four different types of possible agricultural features were submitted for analysis.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Chad Yost. Linda Scott Cummings.

Sixty-four samples collected from Sanak Peak Lake on Sanak Island using a Livingston piston corer were submitted for extraction of phytoliths and other biogenic silica (Table 1).

DOCUMENT Full-Text Peter Kováčik. Linda Scott Cummings.

Site LA 180543 is located south of Brantley Lake and northwest of Carlsbad in Eddy County, New Mexico. A charcoal fragment collected from a small basin-shaped simple feature containing burned limestone was submitted for AMS radiocarbon dating. Three additional sediment samples from the feature were submitted for phytolith and macrofloral analysis.

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

Feature fill and fire-crack rock recovered from a historic roasting pit at the Tontozona Tarantula site (AZ 0:12:119) in the Tonto National Forest in Gila County, Arizona were submitted for phytolith and organic residue analysis, respectively. The fire-cracked rock was tested for organic residues using Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy (FTIR). Phytolith and organic residue analysis will be used to gain information regarding function of the pit feature.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings.

A single sediment sample was collected from a layer or context best described as containing organic matter found under a rock in Stajnia Cave. Phytolith analysis was conducted on this sample to identify any evidence that might contribute to understanding the context of this sample. Organic residue analysis using Fourier Transform Infrared Spectrometry (FTIR) also was conducted to better understand organic residues that might still be contained within the sediments.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Chad Yost. Linda Scott Cummings.

Pollen and phytolith analysis of four samples collected from four individual trenches in the Maroon Cliffs special management area was undertaken to provide information concerning whether or not these areas were playas in the past. In addition, these analyses were conducted to assess the paleoenvironment in the vicinity of Late Formative prehistoric sites near Carlsbad, New Mexico.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Chad Yost.

Thirteen lithic tools and five groundstone artifacts were submitted for protein residue and phytolith analysis, respectively, from four sites (LA 123288, LA 123289, LA 123291, and LA 123292) on the Rio Grande floodplain near the Sandia Mountains in northern New Mexico. These sites were excavated as part of the proposed I-25 construction. The goal of these analyses is to better understand plant and animal subsistence and utilization at these sites.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Chad Yost. Linda Scott Cummings.

Four stratigraphic column samples from an Amerindian village located on the island of Basse-Terre, Guadeloupe, Lesser Antilles, were submitted for phytolith analysis. Evidence for the earliest phase of occupation at Moulin à Eau village site dates to c. AD 700 - 800 and the latest phase dates to c. AD 1200. Currently, it is unknown whether there was either a hiatus or continuous occupation of the site until colonial settlement. Christopher Columbus was the first European to reach Guadeloupe in...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Chad Yost.

Five soil samples were submitted for phytolith and starch grain analysis from three sites located within the Fort Bliss Military Reservation. All of these samples are associated with possible thermal features that may have been utilized for subsistence related activities. The goal of these analyses was to identify any plant phytolith and starch remains that may have been derived from foods prepared using these features. Phytolith analysis was performed to provide some paleoenvironmental...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings.

Site 48CR9459 is located along a large, upland ridge in the Washakie Basin of southwestern Wyoming. Soil samples from the bases of five, morphologically similar, basinshaped hearths were submitted for phytolith and starch analysis to determine plants that might have been processed.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Chad Yost. Peter Kovacik. Linda Scott Cummings.

Fifteen feature samples, representing mainly basin structure floors, and fourteen control samples collected from various locations, were submitted from site 5MF7046 for phytolith and starch grain analysis. This site is an Archaic-era site located approximately 6 miles south/southeast of the Little Snake River in Moffat County, Colorado. Microbotanical (phytolith and starch) analysis was undertaken to better understand some of the plant resources utilized by the site’s occupants.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Chad Yost.

A total of 14 sediment samples and feature fill samples were submitted for phytolith and starch grain analysis from an Archaic Period campsite located in Sweetwater County, Wyoming. Samples consisted of controls collected from around the site and from various types of intramural features excavated into room floors. This analysis was undertaken to better understand feature function and some of the plant resources utilized by the site occupants.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Chad Yost.

Three samples representing two controls and one hearth feature from a basin house (Structure 1) were submitted for phytolith and starch grain analysis from site 5MF3012. This site is located in northwestern Colorado along the Yampa River, and has yielded evidence for multiple Archaic Period occupations, as well as a Late Prehistoric component. This microbotanical analysis was undertaken to better understand some of the plant resources utilized by the Archaic Period site occupants.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Chad Yost.

Seven feature fill samples and one soil control sample were submitted from site 5MF3582 for phytolith and starch grain analysis. This site is an Archaic buried prehistoric campsite discovered in 1991 during pipeline survey work. The site is located in northwestern Colorado on a sandy ridge west of Deception Creek in Moffat County, Colorado. Microbotanical analysis was undertaken to better understand some of the plant resources utilized by the site occupants.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings.

The Pinto site (48CR10382) is located in the eastern portion of the Washakie Basin in Carbon County, south central Wyoming. Excavations have exposed thermal basins, a housepit feature, and associated artifacts at this multi-occupational hunter-gatherer site. Two components identified at the site produced radiocarbon dates between 4810–5100 BP (Component I) and 5510–5540 BP (Component II) (Susan Murray, personal communication December 3, 2014). Fill from four pit features were submitted for...

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

A total of 22 soil samples from various pit contexts were submitted for phytolith and starch analysis with one ceramic fragment submitted for ceramic residue analysis from sites 20OT283 and 20OT3, located in west-central lower Ottawa County, Michigan (Table 1). A total of 9 radiocarbon dates associated with these sites place the timing of the most intensive periods of use in the Late Woodland (Prehistoric) period (Table 2). These sites are thought to represent large resource acquisition,...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Chad Yost.

Soil from one of three dug pit features at the Armstrong Bay Pit site (21SL1134) was submitted for phytolith and starch grain analysis. The site is located on the south shore of Armstrong Bay at the east end of Lake Vermilion, St. Louis County, Minnesota. No cultural materials were recovered at this site; however, it is suspected that these pits were historic Ojibwe food storage pits (David Radford, personal communication, April, 2012). Phytolith and starch grain analysis of fill from one of the...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings.

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