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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. 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.

The Kendal Plantation, site 32BW788, Brunswick County, North Carolina, contains architectural features and artifacts associated with an eighteenth century historic settlement. Remaining architectural components include brick scatter and piles, as well as evidence of two chimneys, a cistern, piers, and foundations. Pedestrian survey collected ceramics likely used by homeowners and slaves, with mean dates ranging from 1720–1866 (Michael Trinkley, personal communication April, 2, 2015). Pollen...

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 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. 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. 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.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings. Chad Yost.

Five sediment samples were collected from Upper Pleistocene, Missoula glacial outburst megaflood couplets from site 45GR2509, located above the Columbia River on the east side. These stratigraphic samples were examined for pollen and phytoliths to provide a paleoenvironmental record.

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

The Blue Mound site, located in Beaver County, Oklahoma, approximately five miles east and south of the Bull Creek drainage, was cored to recover sediments dating to the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM), approximately 18,000 radiocarbon years before present. The site includes an 11 m high silt dune, which overlies a playa. Two sediment samples were selected from the playa (lower) sediments in the core and submitted for pollen and phytolith analysis. Proximity of this site to those that have already...

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

Two cores were collected from two locations at the Ford Dry Lake Playa in eastern Riverside County’s Chuckwalla Valley, California. Remote assessment of the dry lake was made using Google Earth. Coring was conducted under the guidance of the Genesis Solar Energy Project Geoarchaeologist near two of the locations suggested by PaleoResearch Institute staff. Two cores measuring 25 feet each and consisting of drive intervals of 5 feet were submitted for analysis to provide a description of...

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

The China Wall site, 48AB1, is a multi-component campsite that yielded five features dating approximately 7000 BP. The site is located at the western end of Sybille Canyon in the Laramie Range in southeastern Wyoming. Ten lithic artifacts have been analyzed for possible protein residues to provide information concerning animal resources that might have been hunted and/or processed using these tools. Fifty-six pollen samples collected stratigraphically also were examined to provide...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings. Chad Yost.

Big Log Rock Shelter 2 (24LC 2039), which is located in the Big Belt Mountains of Lewis and Clark County, Montana, exhibits three occupational levels. Artifacts representing the McKean complex, Pelican Lake complex, and Avonlea complex have been recovered. It is likely that intermittent occupation span several thousand years. Pollen analysis of samples collected stratigraphically through sediments that represent the past approximately 4500 years, provide a record of local and regional vegetation...

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

The Kahanahou WWPS Upgrade and Sewer Improvements Project area in Kāne‘ohe, which includes Site SIHP #50-80-10-0343 and SIHP #50-80-10-8820, is located in the district of Ko‘olaupoko on the windward (ko‘olau) side of O‘ahu. Site SIHP #50-80-10-0343 represents the Kalokohanahou Fishpond, a loko kuapā (fishpond with seawalls) likely in use by the 14th century (if not earlier) and filled in the 1940s for residential development (G. Farley, personal communication, 3 June 2019; Kikuchi 1972:9,213)....

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings.

Site 48LN2041, located in the Muddy Creek drainage between Kemmerer and Opal, Wyoming, was discovered as part of the Ruby Pipeline Project. It lies approximately 5 miles south of the Hams Fork. Four groundstone fragments, a whole metate, and four soil control samples were submitted for pollen and starch analysis for the purpose of providing subsistence information and interpreting cultural economic activities at this site.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings.

The Searcher Site in Brewster County, Texas contains multiple archaeological sites that are being examined individually. Site 02-387 represents a Late Paleoindian occupation. A pollen and starch analysis of fill from this feature was undertaken to provide information concerning the paleoenvironment and the types of plants that might have been processed.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings.

Site 48SU2800, located in the northern portion of the Green River Basin, yielded evidence of an Archaic occupation. Radiocarbon dates of 3050 ± 40 BP and 3990 ± 40 BP are reported for two of the features. Four basin hearth features were examined to recover pollen and starches that would provide information concerning plants processed by occupants of this site.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings. Chad Yost.

Sites CA-SDI-7074 and CA-SDI-7060 are located approximately 3 miles west of the town of Jacumba, California, near the boarder with Mexico. Various types of stone tools and sediment collected from three features at these sites were submitted for protein residue, pollen and starch analyses. Analyses were undertaken to better understand the plant and animal resources utilized by the site occupants.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings.

Site 48CR9375, located in the eastern portion of the Washakie Basin, includes several open-air, hearth-tethered activity areas. Radiocarbon dates of 5850 ± 40 BP, 5350 ± 40 BP, and 5760 ± 40 BP were returned on two hearths and an isolated feature, respectively, indicating occupation at the end of the Great Divide phase and beginning of the Opal phase of the Early Archaic Period. A piece of groundstone recovered from an activity area adjacent to Feature 9, an unlined basin hearth, and a control...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings.

Site 41CV389 is located at the confluence of Cowhouse and Table Rock Creeks in Fort Hood, Texas. Two samples were collected from features and analyzed for pollen and starches to find evidence of economic activity.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings.

A prehistoric open campsite, 48SU2326, located east of Sand Draw on a rolling plain, was excavated in association with pipeline trench construction. A cultural horizon (Stratum IIb) yielded evidence of a single occupation represented by numerous thermal basins (Brent Buenger, personal communication April 8, 2015). One modern surface sample and three stratigraphic samples, representing the cultural stratum and the strata immediately below and above it, were submitted for pollen analysis to...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings.

Site 48SW17760, located in Sweetwater County, Wyoming, documents a prehistoric camp on the east side of a low hill that occupies the eastern side of an interfluvial ridge in the northeastern portion of the Washakie Basin (Matthew Kautzman, personal communication May 4, 2015). Open trench inspection of 2010 pipeline construction and subsequent auger, shovel, and test units identified features and artifacts, dated to 1280 ± 40 BP, or the Uinta Phase (Matthew Kautzman, personal communication May...

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

Sites 5DA3208 and 5DA3419 are located south of the town of Parker in Douglas County, Colorado. A 2017 excavation of Site 5DA3208 by ERO Resources revealed a multicomponent prehistoric open camp centered on a knoll overlooking Newlin Gulch (Marcus Espinosa, personal communication, November 21, 2018). Based upon identification of associated cultural materials, ERO suggests that Site 5DA3208 was most intensely occupied during the Late Archaic period. Additional evidence for Early Ceramic and Middle...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings.

Site 48SU3993 exhibits three cultural components representing the Great Divide phase of the Early Archaic, the Opal phase of the Early Archaic, and the Pine Spring phase of the Late Archaic. Situated in the northern portion of the Wyoming Basin, this hunter-gatherer open camp represents multiple short-term residential camps. Pollen analysis of the modern surface, three stratigraphic samples, and nine thermal feature samples, as well as starch analysis of the same nine thermal feature samples,...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings.

Pollen samples were examined from Core 7, which was extracted from the base of the excavations at backhoe Trench 1, in the central portion of Mokuhinia Pond. Sediments recovered from this core between the ground water table at approximately 110 cm below the present ground surface, and 175 cm below the surface, were examined for pollen. Radiocarbon ages that may be associated with these sediments range from 290 +60 BP (AD 1459-1681) through 3020 +60 BP(BC 1406-1111). Pollen analysis of the...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings. Barbara Winsborough. Kathryn Puseman.

Six samples representing marsh, lacustrine, and outwash sediment deposits were removed from a core that was collected from a small tributary flowing south into Black Earth Creek just outside the town of Cross Plains, Wisconsin for the purpose of recovering pollen, diatoms, and macrofloral remains. Analysis of these samples was undertaken as a pilot study to examine preservation and the potential for recovering information about vegetation and the paleoenvironmental history of this area from...