Pollen Analysis (Other Keyword)

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings.

Six pollen samples, collected from three archaeological sites, were examined to provide information concerning possible processing activities associated with the use of the pits represented. All three sites are located in the area surrounding Clark Wash near Glade Park in Mesa County, Colorado. Radiocarbon ages place occupation of these sites within the past approximately 1700 years, with the most recent age being approximately 150 BP.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings.

Excavations in the Casma Valley have been conducted for decades. Analysis of 20 pollen samples from the 2002 field season at Sechin Alto (C24) and Taukachi-Konkan (C23) reflects a very small portion of the efforts, thus far, to understand the lives of people living in this area. Evidence of Initial Period occupation was recovered. Pollen analysis was undertaken to provide additional information about the local vegetation and plant use than has been visible from the very extensive...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings.

The New Fork Housepit Site (48SU5084) is located southwest of Boulder, Wyoming in the Green River Basin. Discovered in 2003, the site is situated along the New Fork River, and conventional radiocarbon dates at the site range from 5590 ± 40 BP to 5820 ± 50 BP. Several features were identified during excavation of 48SU5084. Pollen samples were examined from fill collected in the housepit (Feature 2) and eleven hearth features. Botanical identification was also conducted for two samples...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings.

Stratigraphic pollen samples from two prehistoric sites in Eureka County, Nevada, located near the Humboldt River, were examined to provide information concerning vegetation growing at the time these sites were occupied. Site 26Eu3654, a small, dispersed lithic scatter was located on an alluvial fan south of the Humboldt River, while site 26Eu3655, another dispersed lithic scatter, was situated on a small knoll south of the river. Five pollen samples were examined from each site.

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

Ten samples were examined for starch and pollen from nine archaeological sites in the Las Vegas Wash of southern Nevada. These samples represent features of cleared areas in desert pavement. Pollen and starch analysis was conducted in an effort to determine whether these cleared areas were cultural or natural. If they were cultural areas, raw foodstuffs might have been placed or perhaps stored in these locations.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings.

Four sediment samples and a single ground stone from the Big Chico Creek Ecological Reserve were submitted for pollen and starch analysis. This area is part of the Chico State BCCER project. The sediment samples represent individual levels and comprise an informal stratigraphic record. Pollen analysis was undertaken to document prehistoric vegetation during the time represented by these sediments and to examine the metate surface for evidence of food processing.

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

Five samples from an overlying peat and underlying silt and mud layers within the most recent surface rupture at the Burro Flats Trench Site northeast of the town of Banning in Southern California were submitted for pollen analysis. The analysis was performed in order to determine whether the rupture can be associated with the 1812 Wrightwood earthquake or the Coachella Valley earthquake, circa 1700.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings.

The Phelps Dodge Dos Pobres/San Juan Data Recovery project includes numerous sites, sixteen of which were sampled for pollen. These sites are located on the lower slopes of the Gila Mountains. Most of the sites are arrayed in a northwest to southeast trending swath. The arrangement of the sites on the landscape implies an exploitation of a specific elevation range, or more specifically, a specific vegetation community associated with that elevation range. Pollen analysis identifies the...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings.

Twenty-five pollen samples were submitted for analysis from the Moxa Housepit Site (48LN616). These samples represent three occupations. Occupation 1 contains several occupations that cannot be separated stratigraphically. Radiocarbon ages of 4430 ± 70 BP (Feature 5) and 4210 ± 70 BP (Feature 3) have been returned for Occupation 1. A previous date of 5790 ± 50 BP was available from Feature 4, noted in the upper portion of Occupation 1. A single radiocarbon age for Occupation 2 was obtained...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda J. Scott.

Nine pollen samples were submitted for analysis from two sites in the Cyprus Mines Hansen Project area in Fremont County, Colorado. Five samples were taken from a floodplain campsite (5FN189) during trenching operations, and the remaining four samples were obtained from a rockshelter (5FN349). Information was sought concerning the vegetation at the time of the occupation of these two sites. Evidence of the specific economic use of plants at these two sites was also sought.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda J. Scott.

Twelve pollen samples were selected for analysis from several areas within 42Ka1969, a two component site located in south central Utah. All of the pollen samples were taken from the later component, which was radiocarbon dated to A.D. 980 and A.D. 1150 (both dates MASCA corrected). Five samples were selected for analysis from the pithouse: two from the floor to the northwest and to the southeast of the hearth (15-7 and 15-9), and three from cists (15-11, 15-12, and 15-14). Outside the pithouse,...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings.

A single groundstone tool from 38LX50 was washed and examined for pollen in an effort to identify foods processed using this tool. This Archaic Site appears to represent occupation approximately 6,000-8,000 BC.

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

A single sample collected from soil known as Feature 2 or stratum F on Lot 4, Block 39 in Skagway was submitted for pollen and phytolith analysis. A house stood on this lot between approximately 1918 and 1936, then was demolished. Pollen and phytolith analyses were undertaken in an attempt to identify the soil’s origins.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings.

Fill from a small diameter, cylindrical hearth/oven was examined for pollen and starches. This hearth probably dates between AD 600-AD 950 and is located on Horse Creek.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings.

Fill from a slab-lined hearth at 48LN3701, a site exhibiting primarily lithic debris, was examined for pollen. This hearth yielded a radiocarbon age of 5220 +/- 80 BP. Pollen analysis was conducted in an effort to recover evidence of food processing activities associated with this hearth.

DOCUMENT Full-Text R.A. Varney.

Site 48SW13156 is a buried, open camp site, containing numerous features and stains dating to between 9430±40 and 8150±40 RCYBP. All of the features were noted in the lower portion of stratum A or the upper portion of stratum E. Two modern samples, collected from different modern vegetation communities, were analyzed as controls for the site. Eleven stratigraphic samples collected at ten centimeter intervals from a buried A horizon that overlaid the cultural A stratum 90wn through stratum K...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings.

Pollen analysis of four adobe blocks from Pio Pico's El Ranchito was designed to place these adobe bricks in their proper historical perspective. Three of the adobe bricks were from areas of the site with known building episodes. The fourth brick was from an adobe that was part of a wall that was not securely dated. Pollen analysis was undertaken in an effort to compare the pollen records of these individual bricks and assign a date for the fourth date based on its similarity to one of the...

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

Site CA-SDI-1313/14791 encompasses an area measuring approximately 60 m (east/west) by 230 m (north/south) and consists of a moderately dense to dense deposit of artifacts including debitage, and flaked and groundstone tools. It is situated on a stream terrace at the confluence of San Mateo and Cristianitos Creeks in the northern portion of Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, San Diego County, California. Groundstone tools recovered from the site were washed to recover pollen derived from...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda J. Scott.

Several pieces of groundstone from sites 5MF435 and 5MF436 were washed to determine if there was any evidence of their use to grind vegetable foods. Five pieces of groundstone from 5MF435 (Duffy Shelter), including 1 mano, 3 metates, and 1 piece of groundstone, were washed for analysis. The Empire Park Site (SMF436) yielded 6 manos, 4 metates, and 4 pieces of groundstone, which were washed for pollen analysis (Table 1). Sites 5MF435 and SMF436 are both rock shelters. Site 5MF435 is located...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings.

Samples from five different brands of honey were submitted to Paleo Research Institute, Inc. for analysis and identification of the types of pollen present.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda J. Scott.

Inscription House Pueblo, located in Nitsin Canyon, a side canyon of Navajo Canyon, in north- central Arizona, was the site of archaeological salvage and stabilization during the summer of 1977. The project sponsored by the National Park Service and carried out by the University of Colorado was designed to stabilize portions of Inscription House and salvage a trash midden which was being actively eroded by an arroyo. During the process of excavation, pollen samples were taken to provide further...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings.

Fifteen sediments samples collected from sediments in a possible ancient field area and canal were examined for pollen. Pollen analysis was used to determine whether or not evidence exists for use of this area for agricultural fields in the past. Traditional pollen counts were made of each sample, then single microscope slides were scanned to search for Zea mays (maize) pollen, since maize is the most likely agricultural crop. Evidence for maize was recovered in eleven of the fifteen...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings.

Pollen analysis ofthree samples from CA-KER-4040 and three samples from EAFB-434 was directed towards identification of plants that might have been processed using the two metates recovered from these sites.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings.

Site LA 80924, located in northwestern New Mexico, yielded two samples for pollen analysis. A sample from the floor of a Navajo bell-shaped pit (F. 13) and from a profile of sediments comprising the Archaic component of the site were examined for pollen. In addition, a modern ground surface sample was analyzed for comparability.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Karl Reinhard.

Subconsultant analysis of pollen from sediments collected at the Quackenbush Square Parking Facility Historic Archaeological Site and two other archaeological sites in Albany, NY. Report appeared as an appendix to the PDF Phase III report.