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DOCUMENT Full-Text Kathryn Puseman. Linda Scott Cummings.

Fine, powdery ash from the bottom of a shallow pit found in the middle of a bladed dirt road at site 48WE1650 in Weston County, eastern Wyoming, was floated to recover charcoal and other charred macrofloral remains. This pit is believed to represent a hearth. Macrofloral analysis was examined the sample for evidence of charcoal, coal, or a mixture of the two, as well as to find charred material for AMS radiocarbon dating. Recovery of both charcoal and coal in the feature fill and a Holocene...