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DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings. Kathryn Puseman. Jaime Dexter.

Fill from three shallow stain features at the Monte Sereno Site, LA 79934, in Santa Fe, New Mexico, were examined for pollen and macrofloral remains. This site consists of a ceramic sherd and lithic scatter on a ridge top. Features from this site yielded radiocarbon ages in the 1400s, indicating a Pueblo IV occupation. Pollen and macrofloral analyses will be used to provide information concerning prehistoric plant gathering and processing activities at the site, as well as to assist in...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Kathryn Puseman. Linda Scott Cummings.

Pollen and macrofloral samples were examined from three sites in the Pinon Canyon Maneuver Site of southeast Colorado. These sites represent a series of Late Prehistoric rockshelters with multicomponent occupations, including the Developmental period (AD 100- 1050), Diversification period (AD 1050-1450), Protohistoric period (AD 1450-1725), and historic period. Pollen and macrofloral analyses will be used to provide information concerning subsistence strategies utilized by the various...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings. Peter Kováčik.

The Woodford’s Brigade Site is situated within Valley Forge National Historical Park, southeastern Pennsylvania. This area of the park, associated with General Woodford’s Brigade, is located on the southern slopes of Mount Joy, on a grassy field (Matthew Kalos, personal communication August 8, 2014). Two soil samples, collected from two trenches in a “pipe trench” feature, were examined for pollen and macrofloral remains to better understand the origin of this trench.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings. Peter Kováčik.

Loko Kaipuni (SIHP # 50-80-14-4573), a Hawaiian fishpond located in Waikīkī, O’ahu, Hawai’i, was used during both the pre-Contact and historic periods. In 1919 and 1928 it was filled with coral dredge from the Ala Wai Canal. A sediment sample collected from the center of the monitor trench excavation was submitted for pollen and macrofloral analysis to establish baseline environmental information for the vicinity of the fishpond and to answer questions of how the fishpond was used.

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

One pollen sample, six flotation samples, and four charcoal samples were examined from shallow hearths at Site LA107831 in southeast New Mexico. Diagnostic artifacts suggest occupation of the site sometime between AD 500 and 1300. Pollen and macrofloral analyses are used to provide information concerning possible plant resources processed in the hearths.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Kathryn Puseman. Linda Scott Cummings.

The fill from three hearths at site 48SW13143 in southwest Wyoming was examined for pollen, starch, and macrofloral remains. This site consists of a low density scatter of lithic debris and some fire-cracked rock, and it is believed to represent a secondary lithic workshop associated with reduction of locally available lithic resources. Four shallowly buried hearths were exposed during pipeline construction. Pollen, starch, and macrofloral analysis of the fill from three of the hearths will...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Kathryn Puseman. Linda Scott Cummings. Jaime Dexter.

Samples from the fill of three shallow basin hearths at site MDU 8-35C in west-central Wyoming were examined for pollen and macrofloral remains. The hearths were identified during road construction in the Wind River Basin. Pollen and macrofloral analyses are used to provide information concerning plant resources utilized by the occupants of this site.

DOCUMENT Full-Text R.A. Varney.

The East Franklin Mountain fault is located in the area of EI Paso, Texas. A paleoseismic trench across the fault encountered at least three buried soils. The third of these, 13Kb3, radiocarbon dated to 29,520 ± 260 BP, was sampled as suspected cienega deposits in order to assist in determinating vegetation in the area during the time of development of this soil. Samples were analyzed for pollen and plant macrofossils. Modern vegetation on the alluvial fans in the area consists of sparse...

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

The Buck Draw site (48SW883) is located northeast of Wamsutter, Wyoming on the eastern flank of the Great Divide Basin. Three components were identified in the field and radiocarbon dated to 1400 ± 50 and 1820 ± 70 BP for Component I (the upper component), 5970 ± 50 BP for Component II (the middle component), and 5930 ± 40 BP and 5840 ± 40 BP for Component III (the lower component). Pollen was examined from sampled collected both inside and outside of features. In addition, FTIR (infra-red)...

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

Site 48CR332, a multicomponent site, is located along the southeastern margin of the Ferris Mountains in central Wyoming. It is situated at an elevation of 6250 feet above sea level at the mouth of Sand Creek Canyon. The canyon is formed by the Ferris Mountains to the west-southwest and Bear Mountain to the south- southeast. A small intermountain basin opens to the north-northeast of the site. Nine stratigraphic pollen samples represent all five components noted at the site, which range from...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings.

Two privy vaults were discovered on lots at 184–186 Sheridan Avenue (Feature 14) and 103–109 Sheridan Avenue (Feature 3001) in an area known as Sheridan Hollow in Albany, New York. Sheridan Hollow, a poorly drained low-lying area developed slowly into a downtown neighborhood beginning during the Civil War era, becoming more densely populated during the Victorian era. Pollen and parasite analysis were conducted on night soil deposits noted in the bottoms of each privy vault.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings.

The Leon Family Farmstead, AZ 88:13:505 (ASM), was occupied between the mid-1840s and the early 1920s. The Leon Family was one of the wealthier Mexican families in Tucson. They farmed along the Santa Cruz River, raised cattle, and operated a store. Samples were collected from a variety of locations at this site, including borrow pits, a possible garden plot, and an ashy layer in a well to examine pollen that might represent food and/or ornamental plants. If human waste was deposited in any of...

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

Companion pollen and phytolith samples were examined from eight samples representing five Individual sites In Great Sand Dunes National Monument, Colorado. These samples all represent fill from charcoaI stains, possible hearths, basin-shaped hearths, or deflated hearths. The objective in collecting and analyzing these samples was to obtain information concerning the plants that the occupants of these sites chose to cook in these features. It is also a fact that fill samples record evidence...

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

The Ronsavalle's Gulch site, located on a gypsum plain between the Delaware Mountains to the west and the Rustler Hills to the east, includes both Archaic and Late Prehistoric artifacts. Radiocarbon ages from the hearths are reported as 3250 BP for the Archaic occupation and cluster at 870 and 940 BP for the Late Prehistoric occupation. Four pairs of samples were recovered from sediment in an arroyo cut near the archaeological features and examined for pollen and phytoliths to provide...

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

A single vessel fragment, a mano, and a soil control sample were submitted for pollen and starch analysis. In addition, phytolith analysis was requested for the ceramic vessel fragment. Analyses are focused on identifying plants that might have been processed with this mano and in this vessel.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings.

Samples were examined from Charles Towne Landing State Historic Site, the first permanent English settlement of the Colony Carolina. It was occupied between 1670 and 1680. Soil recovered from a trench feature in a possible small, seventeenth century vineyard was submitted for analysis. Documents indicate small grape arbors adjacent to houses in the area. Occupants grew experimental crops to determine what, if anything, would grow well in Carolina. Crops attempted include indigo, tobacco,...

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

Seven sediment samples from features at site 10775-175 on U.S. Highway 491 DR North were examined for pollen and phytoliths. This site is a multi component site with occupations ranging from the Late Archaic to the Pueblo II. Pollen and phytolith samples were examined to provide information concerning use of the features, as well as some paleoenvironmental information.

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

A single piece of groundstone and an abrader from site 35JE355 were washed to recover pollen and phytoliths that might inform concerning the use of these tools. This site is located along both banks of Lake Creek, Deschutes County, Oregon, where Highway 20 crosses the creek. The Lake Creek Site complex is situated on the east side of the crest of the Mid-Oregon Cascade Range. Previously conducted radiocarbon dates place occupation of this site between approximately 2080 ± 60 BP and 3100 ±...

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

Site 41KR621 is located within the boundaries of a proposed right-of-way extension along Spur 98 in Kerrville, Texas. Situated on the southern approach of Spur 98 to the Guadalupe River, this multi-component, Mid to Late Holocene prehistoric site covers the entire highway right-of-way from the base of an upland toeslope at the southern terminus to the scarp of a terrace above the river. Soil matrix samples from several features at the site were examined for pollen and phytoliths, as were...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings.

Located in south Texas, site 41MV164 is situated near the western edge of Maverick County approximately six miles east of the Rio Grande River, above an unnamed tributary of Elm Creek. The Archaic site consists of a surface scatter of fire-affected rock, chert cores and debitage. Diagnostic tools found on the surface include Ensor-like and Frio dart points, as well as a Seal/om arrow point. Cultural materials were identified in three distinct locations: buried beneath the floodplain...

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

Stratigraphic samples were examined for both pollen and phytoliths from two archaeological sites (33Le396 and 33Le405) to identify vegetation and changes in vegetation that can provide information concerning paleoenvironmental conditions. Features at site 33Le405 yielded radiocarbon ages indicating Early to Late Woodland occupations, whereas site 33Le396 appears to have been occupied during the Middle Woodland. Feature samples were examined for pollen and phytoliths from each of these site...

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

Three pollen/starch samples and a small amount of charred com cob were examined from the "vermilion vista" site (42Ka4896), located approximately 15 miles east of Kanab, Utah. The three pollen/starch samples represent floors of slab-lined storage bins used during the Basketmaker III and Pueblo I and were examined to shed light on plants that might have been stored in these bins.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings.

A single soil sample (Table 1) was collected from a buried A horizon that has been interpreted as representing the original hill surface prior to its artificial shaping. Pollen and phytolith analyses were undertaken to identify local vegetation existing on the original hill.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings.

Pollen and phytolith samples were examined from locations thought to belong to a historic garden area that was part of Fort Vancouver. Samples were examined from seven different excavation units, some of which were associated with features. This analysis focused on identifying any plants that might have been planted in the gardens and describing local vegetation.

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

The Medicine Lodge Creek site is located on the eastern margin of the Bighorn Basin in north central Wyoming. A metate from the Crow horizon at the site was recovered during backhoe trenching and submitted for pollen and phytolith analysis to identify plants that might have been processed.