Charcoal Identification (Other Keyword)

DOCUMENT Full-Text Kathryn Puseman.

Samples from an Upper Republican house (House 4) at Site 25FT22 in southwest Nebraska were examined for charred macrofloral remains. This site contained Upper Republican habitation features and midden deposits. Macrofloral analysis is used to provide information concerning plant resources available to and utilized by the occupants of the house. This information will help contribute to the understanding of the Upper Republican lifeways in the Medicine Creek valley.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Kathryn Puseman.

Fill from a burned rock feature at the Side Arm Site (02-229) was floated to recover macrofloral remains. This site is located in Brewster County, Texas. Charcoal samples from two burned rock features were submitted for identification and AMS radiocarbon dating. Macrofloral analysis, including charcoal identification, will be used to provide information concerning plant resources utilized by the site occupations. AMS radiocarbon dating will provide a temporal context for the site.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Peter Kováčik.

Site CM-1 lies in the Western Mojave Desert subregion northwest of California City in Kern County, California. A hearth exposed during RE Cinco Solar Project construction grading activities in the area yielded numerous fire-affected rocks, charcoal, one mano fragment, ochre, a bone fragment, one charred or uncharred juniper (Juniperus) seed and several lithics, including an obsidian flake (Christopher Duran, personal communication June 24, 2015). Sediment samples were collected in and around the...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Kathryn Puseman.

Samples from feature fill and/or auger tests at sites 48LN1301, 48LN3997, and 48LN4114 in southwest Wyoming were floated to recover charred macrofloral remains. These sites were excavated as part of the Ruby Pipeline project. Macrofloral analysis will be used to provide information concerning plants utilized by the prehistoric occupants of these sites.

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 Kathryn Puseman. Chad Yost.

Fill from hearths at sites LA 117092 (FB 16244), LA 124002 (FB 8803), and LA 124024 (FB 8825) was examined to recover charcoal or other charred macrofloral material suitable for AMS radiocarbon dating, then date the features. A unifacial tool from site LA 124013 (FB 8814) was analyzed for possible protein residues to determine plant or animal resources that might have been processed using this tool. These sites are located on the Fort Bliss Military Reservation in Surveyors and El Paso Canyons,...

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 Kathryn Puseman.

Fill from a roasting pit at site 5LA10370 was floated to recover charred macrofloral remains. Charcoal from this sample was submitted for AMS radiocarbon dating. Charcoal from Stratum II at site 5LA11074 also was submitted for identification and AMS radiocarbon dating. These sites are located on the Piñon Canyon Maneuver Site in Las Animas County, southeast Colorado. Macrofloral analysis, including charcoal identification, will be used to provide information concerning plant resources utilized...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Kathryn Puseman. Linda Scott Cummings.

Charcoal from the fill of hearths at the David Williams Site, 41PS1020, were submitted for identification and AMS radiocarbon dating. Fill from one of the hearths also was floated to recover charcoal and other macrofloral remains. This site is a buried open campsite located in west Texas. An adjacent hearth was dated at 7,000 CAL BP.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Kathryn Puseman.

Charcoal and fill samples from possible hearths at the Buckhorn Site (02-251) and the Curtain Site (02-252) were submitted for identification and macrofloral analysis. Macrofloral analysis will be used to provide subsistence information concerning possible plant resources processed in the hearths, while examination of charcoal will identify types of wood burned as fuel in these features and the best possible material for AMS radiocarbon dating.

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 Kathryn Puseman. Linda Scott Cummings.

Samples from sites 24GF372 and 24GF419 in northern Montana were examined for starches and macrofloral remains. Charcoal and a charred seed from these sites also were submitted for AMS radiocarbon dating. Site 24GF372 is a scatter of cultural material with a basin-shaped hearth. Site 24GF419 contains a bison kill bone bed and two areas of culture material scatter. Macrofloral and starch analyses will be used to provide information concerning plant resources utilized by the occupants of these...

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 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 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 Kathryn Puseman. Chad Yost. Melissa K. Logan.

Samples from units in three excavation blocks at site 45FS2075 in northeast Washington were examined for charcoal and other macrofloral remains. This site appears to represent pre-contact through contact period occupations. The excavation blocks contained several diffuse hearths consisting of concentrations of fire-cracked rock and bone. Charcoal or charred botanic remains from 34 samples were submitted for AMS radiocarbon dating. In addition, six lithic artifacts were sampled for protein...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings.

Grasses and one sand sage were collected in the field by Richard Madole of the United States Geological Survey and submitted to Paleo Research Labs for examination for phytoliths. This required a chemical preparation to remove the organic portions of the grasses so that phytoliths would be visible.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Kathryn Puseman.

Three charcoal samples from the Alm Shelter, site 48BH3457, in Wyoming were submitted for identification and AMS radiocarbon dating. These samples are expected to range in age from less than 2000 years BP to about 8000 years BP.

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 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 Kathryn Puseman. Chad Yost.

Samples from stone rings at sites 32OL551 and 32OL552 in west-central North Dakota were examined for phytoliths and macrofloral remains to determine that plant resources were utilized by the occupants of these sites. Microscopic charcoal was extracted from the stone ring sediments and submitted for AMS radiocarbon dating, yielding three radiocarbon dates. Lithic tools from the stone rings at 32OL551 also were examined for protein residues to provide information concerning animals that may have...

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

A single sediment sample from the upper fill of a heated rock feature at site PL-SCESEG6-08 in Los Angeles County, California, was examined for phytoliths, starch, macrofloral remains, and organic residues, the latter using Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy (FTIR), to look for evidence of foods that might have been processed in this feature. Charcoal from the feature also was identified and submitted for AMS radiocarbon dating to provide temporal information. This feature contained...

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

A piece of fire-cracked rock (FCR) from a pit feature at site 21OT191 in central Minnesota was submitted for phytolith, starch, and organic residue (FTIR) analyses. One fragment of charcoal from the same feature was submitted for identification and AMS radiocarbon dating. These analyses are used to identify plant and animal resources that might have been utilized by the site occupants and to determine the age of the pit feature.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings. Peter Kováčik.

Site 48CR10499, located in south-central Wyoming in the eastern portion of the Washakie Basin, is a hunter-gatherer open camp exhibiting evidence of two occupations, including one Early Archaic housepit. Component 2 yielded ten radiocarbon dates ranging from 5720 to 5180 BP, indicating an Opal Phase occupation. Component 1 comprises two distinct open camps dating to 1820 and 1530 BP. Two sediment samples collected from each of the two cultural components were examined for pollen to provide...

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

A single sample from the Eglington Fault in Las Vegas, Nevada, was analyzed for pollen and charcoal identification. This sample was collected from a colluvial wedge in the last rupture at the EI Campo Grande site of the Eglington Fault. Pollen analysis was used to determine the local vegetation at the time of the rupture. Charcoal in the sample was identified and submitted for an AMS radiocarbon date.