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DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings. Jenna Battillo.

Earth Mounds 33 and 34 are located in the Wathayn locality on the Weipa Peninsula of northern Cape York in Queensland, Australia. Evidence suggests that occupation of the earth mounds at Wathayn began after 2000 BP, with the height of occupation occurring between 500 and 100 BP. Use of the earth mounds on the Weipa Peninsula continued well after European settlement, with evidence for Aboriginal adoption of new technologies suggestive of occupation into the modern era (Stevenson et al. 2015:28)....

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings.

Located on a highly undulating plain, amid interfluvial ridges and broad, shallow valleys, Site 48CR9599 represents a small prehistoric camp situated at the toe of a low, sand-covered hill in the Washakie Basin. Identified through 2009 WFS Coal Bank 5-50 pipeline monitoring, Site 48CR9599 lies between Sugarloaf Butte and Coal Bank Draw, demonstrating charcoal stained sediment dating to 1290 ± 40 BP, the Late Prehistoric Uinta phase. Subsequent testing identified six hearth features (Jan...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings.

Site CA-030-2147 is a small rockshelter situated in the foothills of the Klamath Mountains near the town of Hornbrook in Siskiyou County, California. The rockshelter was occupied between the late prehistoric and early historic period. A sample collected from the shelter was submitted for pollen, phytolith, and starch analysis to identify evidence of local vegetation and possibly use. In addition, a “pinch” sample was collected in the vicinity of the shelter to provide control for the pollen...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings. Chad Yost.

Feature fill sediment samples and groundstone tools from site LA 159879, Luna County, New Mexico, were submitted for various combinations of pollen, phytolith, and starch grain analysis. Archaeological field investigations at LA 159879 suggest that the site represents the remains of a Late Archaic period base camp. The camp is located on the Deming Flood Plain inside the greater Mimbres Bolson. This analysis was undertaken to recover and identify microbotanical remains of plants associated with...

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

Seven samples from two levels of fill in a thermal feature at site LA 172823 in Eddy County, New Mexico, were analyzed for pollen, phytoliths, and macrofloral remains. Charcoal and charred botanic remains recovered from the macrofloral samples were submitted for AMS radiocarbon dating. A total of seven dates were obtained. This site consists of a single thermal feature and small scatter of prehistoric lithic artifacts. Pollen, phytolith, and macrofloral analyses will provide information...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings.

Fossil pollen, phytoliths, macrofloral remains, and charcoal from archeological and geological sites at the Jewett Mine, Texas are analyzed in this appendix. Pollen analysis provides an overview of regional vegetation and hence paleoenvironments for this area. Pollen columns were collected at an alluvial geological site in the Buffalo Creek floodplain and at an archeological site, 41LN106, in the Lambs Creek drainage for this reconstruction. Companion phytolith samples were collected from the...

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

A soil sample from the Smith Site (A09111.000369), located in Malta, Saratoga County, New York, was examined for pollen, phytolith, and macrofloral remains, as well as protein and organic residues. Samples were tested for organic residues using Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy (FTIR). This historic site dates from the latter half of the 19th century (Adam Luscier, personal communication, January 21, 2011). Pollen, phytolith, macrofloral, protein, and organic residue (FTIR) analyses...

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

Sites 24GA416 (Reas Pass Site) and 24GA493 (Horse Butte Peninsula) and are located in Gallatin County, southwestern Montana. Excavations of these sites is part of an on-going effort to re-license the Hebgen Reservoir development along the Madison River near West Yellowstone. Pollen analysis was conducted on samples collected stratigraphically from both sites to provide paleoenvironmental information. Naturally occurring charcoal from columns at both sites also were AMS radiocarbon dated. In...

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

Samples were examined from excavations in the Bishop’s Garden area at the San Gabriel Mission Archaeological Site, CA-LAN-184H, in southern California as part of the Alameda Corridor East Construction Authority’s (ACE) San Gabriel Trench Grade Separation project. This area contains a large, dense, partially intact Mission period (1769-1834) artifact deposit and two substantial archaeological features associated with occupation of the San Gabriel Mission. A total of 83 column samples from a Water...

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

Samples from sites 24LN202 and 24LN2210, Lincoln County, Montana, were submitted for pollen, phytolith, macrofloral, protein, and organic residue analysis, and AMS radiocarbon dating. Samples were tested for organic residues using Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy (FTIR). The goal of these analyses is to better understand the function of several cultural features, determine if other features are of cultural or geologic origins, and to identify some of the plants and animals that may have...

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

Samples from the Dickerson Street and Water Works sites north of Albany, New York, were submitted for pollen, phytolith, macrofloral, protein, and organic residue analysis, along with companion charcoal identification and AMS radiocarbon dating. Samples are to be examined in two stages. Selected samples are to be analyzed first, and preliminary results are to be reported to the client before beginning the analyses on the remainder of the samples. In stage one, sediments from the Dickerson Street...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Peter Kováčik. Linda Scott Cummings.

Sites 1MA277 and 1MA098 lie within the Redstone Arsenal U.S. Army post in Madison County, northern Alabama. Sediment samples collected from four different features were submitted for macrofloral and subsequent radiocarbon analysis. In addition, fill of Feature 13 (1MA098) was examined for pollen, phytolith, and organic residue (FTIR) analysis.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings. Kathryn Puseman.

Pollen, phytolith, parasite, and macrofloral analyses were conducted on samples from two privies, Features 292 and 213, situated on Lot 16, Package 118, Harper's Ferry National Park, West Virginia. These privies are believed to represent a pre-Civil War period during the 1830s-1850s (Feature 292), and the early 20th century (Feature 213). The Package 118 area consists of Lots 15 and 16, located in Lower Town Harper's Ferry, between Potomac and High Streets. Prior to 1836, these lots served as...

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

Seven sediment samples from the Lyukas-kurgan located near Hajdúnánás, Hungary were originally submitted for pollen analysis. Later, an additional nine samples that included sediment, ceramics, wood, a mat fragment, and a possible leather fragment were submitted for pollen, phytolith, protein, and organic residue analysis. Organic residue samples were tested using Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy (FTIR).

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings. Peter Kováčik.

Sites CA-SDI-21240 and CA-SDI-21805 are located on Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton in northern San Diego County, California. Cultural deposits at both sites contain marine shell and animal bones, as well as flaked stone and groundstone tools (Tanya Wahoff, personal communication April 26, 2018). Various artifacts collected from both sites were submitted for protein residue, pollen, and phytolith analysis. Soil control samples associated with artifacts also were provided. Macrofloral analysis...

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

Two fill samples from a hearth feature at site LA 174561 in Eddy County, southeast New Mexico, were analyzed for pollen, phytoliths, starches, and macrofloral remains. Charcoal fragments recovered from the macrofloral samples were submitted for AMS radiocarbon dating. In addition to the hearth, this site contains three surface scatters of thermally-altered caliche and is believed to represent a multi-use, short-term, temporary prehistoric camp used for seasonal exploitation of plant and animal...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings.

Ais Giorkis, Cyprus, an Aceramic Neolithic site, represents either an early “Cypro-PPNB” or Late Khirokitia culture occupation. Radiocarbon ages on bone cluster around 6800–7000 ca. BC. This important Neolithic site is located in the uplands. Although it does not appear to be a typical village, Ais Giorkis contains only limited cattle remains, which is unusual for Neolithic occupations. Three ground stone implements, which were relatively rare in the artifact assemblage, one stone bowl, and one...

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

Hope Farm-Richmond Hall (site 36PH160) lies on a terrace above the Delaware River in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Two sediment samples were collected from the last cultural layer and non-cultural sediments beneath for pollen analysis. Pollen analysis was designed to provide information concerning local vegetation prior to and at the time of at lease one of the occupations. In addition, pollen analysis of these two samples provides an opportunity to assess the pollen record from this site in terms...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings. Peter Kováčik. B. Lee Drake.

Multiple archaeological sites located within the boundaries of the Camp Guernsey Installation provided ceramics, lithics, and sediment sample for pollen, phytolith, starch, protein, and/or macrofloral analysis, and/or for infrared analysis of organic chemicals and/or XRF analysis of elements (Table 1). Obsidian flakes submitted from three sites were sourced using XRF elemental analysis. Charcoal identified from three locations was AMS radiocarbon dated.

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

The Sorbello 1 Site (28-Sa-214) is located in Oldmans Township, Salem County, New Jersey. The site is bordered by Beaver Creek to the north and the Beaver Creek confluence and Myers Run to the northeast. Diagnostic tools recovered from the Sorbello 1 Site date to the Late Archaic Period (circa 4,000–1,500 BP), and Locus 5 dates to the Middle Archaic, spanning to the Transitional Archaic or Early Woodland. Eleven samples, including fire cracked rock (FCR) sediment and lithic artifacts, were...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings. Jennifer L.B. Milligan.

The Eagle Tree site (48CO2920) is a prehistoric campsite situated on a partial bench and terrace above an ephemeral drainage near Antelope Creek. Excavations exposed multiple thermal features from the Thunder Basin Phase. Feature BF-F1, a hearth or oven, dated to the Late Prehistoric period and yielded a groundstone metate that was submitted for pollen, phytolith, starch, and protein residue analyses. Analyses were conducted to contribute information about the function of the artifact and food...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Chad Yost. Linda Scott Cummings.

Lithic tools and ceramic sherds were recovered from the Dyott/Gunners Run North site, 36PH037, located along the Delaware River in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. This site contains a significant historic component; however, the focus of this study is on analysis of prehistoric artifacts from the site. Two lithic tools were submitted for protein residue analysis. Three vessel sherds and two pipe stem fragments were submitted for pollen, starch, and protein residue analysis.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings. Peter Kováčik. Jennifer L.B. Milligan.

Sites CA-SDI-13325 and CA-SDI-20979 comprise a moderately dense to dense artifact deposit of debitage, flaked, and groundstone tools. Situated along San Mateo Creek, within Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton in northern San Diego County, California, these sites lie within the traditional tribal territory of the Luiseño Band of Mission Indians. Groundstone, feature fill, and flaked lithics were recovered and submitted for analyses including pollen, phytolith, starch, macrofloral, and protein...

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

The Memorial Church Site is located in Jamestown, James City County, Virginia. During excavation of the 1906–07 Memorial Church in July 2018, Jamestown Rediscovery uncovered eastern and western foundations for the original 1617 church. Within the chancel of the 1617 church, a single graveshaft (JR4269) was recorded. Subsequently, Jamestown Rediscovery submitted two sediment samples (JR4269A.20 and JR4269A.22) to PaleoResearch Institute for pollen, phytolith, starch, macrofloral, organic residue...

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

Ten samples were selected from a collection of 145 samples recovered during archaeological salvage excavations of the Market Street Chinatown in downtown San Jose, California, from 1985-1986. These ten samples were analyzed for pollen, starches, parasites, phytoliths, and macrofloral remains as part of a pilot study in the “Archaeology of the Urban Environment in 19th Century San Jose.” Excavations revealed features such as trash pits, wood-lined cesspools, wells, and open-air dumps. Most of the...