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DOCUMENT Citation Only Linda J. Scott. Rhoda O. Lewis.

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DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings.

The Hatch Site (5WL38) and Rattlesnake Shelter (5WL1856) were examined for evidence of extant prehistoric vegetation in the pollen and phytolith records. The Hatch Site (5WL38) is located in the Pawnee National Grasslands of Weld County. Deposits identified as Late Plains Woodland were noted. A single hearth yielded a radiocarbon date of 880 + 50 BP (1070 + 50 AD) . In addition, occupation zones were also noted and identified as Late Plains Woodland. Pollen samples were examined from the hearth...

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.

Thirty-one phytolith samples and two pollen samples were examined from 41CW54, reported in 99-60. Eighteen of these samples represent stratigraphic deposits that included four occupations. One sample was collected off-site as a control sample, and the remaining twelve samples were collected from sediments associated with tools, including gouges, flakes, and points, or from a paleochannel. Radiocarbon ages from the paleochannel range from 7560 ± 100 BP to 6650 ± 40 BP. The two pollen samples...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings.

A former agricultural field system identified on the outskirts of Picuris Pueblo contains many terraces, grids, and other rock alignments. Some features may have been constructed as early as the thirteenth century CE. Ceramics recovered suggest most of the area investigated was used between 1500 and 1700 CE. One sediment sample was collected from ashy deposits immediately below a circular platform of thermally altered rocks, suggesting use as a thermal feature. Dozens of features of similar...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings.

A former agricultural field system identified on the outskirts of Picuris Pueblo contains many terraces, grids, and other rock alignments. Some features may have been constructed as early as the thirteenth century CE. Ceramics recovered suggest most of the area investigated was used between 1500 and 1700 CE. One sediment sample was collected from ashy deposits immediately below a circular platform of thermally altered rocks, suggesting use as a thermal feature. Dozens of features of similar...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings.

Rustler Rockshelter, situated in the Providence Mountains of the eastern Mojave Desert, was comprised of a midden against the south-facing cliff. In addition, numerous artifacts were present. Three pollen and phytolith samples were examined from the midden in an effort to define plants that were discarded by occupants of this shelter. In addition, a single mano was washed to recover pollen that might inform concerning plants ground using this tool.

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.

Nine combination pollen and phytolith samples were examined from a variety of contexts from a late 18th and early 19th century plantation in Charleston County, South Carolina. Suspected garden plantings, garden parterres, an interior brick wall, thought to represent a walled garden or a retainer for compost, as well as a wall trench from an African American slave house were examined.

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. R.A. Varney.

Pollen analysis was undertaken on samples from four archaeological sites (34HP70, 34HP76, 34HP131, and 34HP138) in the panhandle of northwest Oklahoma. A piece of groundstone and a soil control sample were examined at 34HP70 to determine what, if any, plants were ground using this tool. At site 34HP76 the floor of a pit was examined to identify possible use of the pit. A hearth at 34HP131 was examined to identify economic activity associated with this feature. Finally, at 34HP138 several...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings.

Site 48YE449 and 48YE454 are located at the mouth of Arnica Creek, which flows into the northern portion of West Thumb, Yellowstone Lake. Site 48YE1, the Fishing Bridge Site, is located along the Yellowstone River at the north edge of Yellowstone Lake. Both buried and surface fired rock features were noted and sampled for pollen and phytolith analysis from 48YE449. These features are presently located within a meadow along the lake shore. Pollen and phytolith analysis were undertaken to...

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

Five stratigraphic sediment samples from two locations at the Blacklog Narrows, Aughwick Watershed, Cromwell Township, Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania were submitted for pollen and phytolith analysis to help determine vegetation and climate change. The older deposits represent Pleistocene deposits more than 29,000 radiocarbon years old, while the younger set represents Holocene deposits.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings.

Five combination pollen and phytolith samples were examined from five features at the Jervey Plantation (38CH927) and the Yaughal Plantation (38CH932) to identify crops that might have been grown at these sites. Historic studies of plantations in this area focus on recovery of indigo and upland swamp rice for early occupations and cotton for nineteenth century occupations. The builder's trench of the main plantation house was examined at the Jervey Plantation. Various features, including a...

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. Margaret E. Newman.

POLLEN AND PHYTOLITH ANALYSIS FROM SDI-7197, THE SALT CREEK I PROJECT, CALIFORNIA: Pollen and phytolith analysis was conducted on groundstone and flaked stone tools from this site in an effort to define the plants that were processed with these tools. BLOOD RESIDUE ANALYSIS OF ARTIFACTS FROM SITE SDI-7197 CALIFORNIA: The primary objective of this analysis was to determine if information derived by the analysis of blood residues retained on lithic artifacts could provide further...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings.

An Ovis (sheep) coprolite recovered from Eagle Cave in Val Verde County, Texas, was submitted for pollen and phytolith analysis.

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.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings.

The Acer Fergii Site, 48CA3227, Campbell County, Wyoming, located a few kilometers north of Antelope Creek, is a Late Plains Archaic and Late Prehistoric campsite. Loam and clay sediments give way to exposed and weathered shales across parts of the site. Local vegetation includes sparse sagebrush, short prairie grasses, and prickly pear cactus. Acer Fergii Site investigations included 25 block excavations, totaling 192 square meters, which identified hearths, lithic debitage and tools, cobble...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings.

Pollen and phytolith samples were examined from an organic stain at 41RN169 in Runnels County, Texas in an effort to identify the origin of the stain. Control samples from unstained matrix were also examined for both pollen and phytoliths to establish a record with which to compare the data obtained from examination of the stain.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings. Chad Yost.

Site 15OH161, an east-facing sandstone rockshelter site in Ohio County, western Kentucky, yielded evidence of multiple occupations. While only the Archaic and Early to Middle Woodland occupations were sampled for pollen analysis and radiocarbon dates reported for features from this site range from 6050 ± 40 BP to 4230 ± 40 BP, there is also a Late Woodland/Mississippian component. Only the Archaic components were in good context, therefore. Considerable disturbance as a result of human looting...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings. Chad Yost.

Fort Center, located in Glades County, Florida, provides evidence of Late Archaic; Early, Middle, and Late Woodland, Belle Glades, Calusa, Protohistoric, Seminole, and finally 19th and 20th century occupations. Thus, occupation at this 2.5 square km earthwork site dates between 800 BC and at least the late 1800s (Victor Thompson, personal communication, September 2010). Earlier work at this site included pollen analysis that reported consistent finds of Zea mays pollen. Verification or denial of...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings. Chad Yost.

Fort Center, located in Glades County, Florida, provides evidence of Late Archaic; Early, Middle, and Late Woodland, Belle Glades, Calusa, Protohistoric, Seminole, and finally 19th and 20th century occupations. Thus, occupation at this 2.5 square km earthwork site dates between 800 BC and at least the late 1800s (Victor Thompson, personal communication, September 2010). Earlier work at this site included pollen analysis that reported consistent finds of Zea mays pollen. Verification or denial of...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings.

Dung from locations in Arizona and Russia were submitted for pollen and phytolith analysis. Pontatoc Ridge Shelter exhibited a surface mat dating approximately 14,000 yr BP. Dung recovered from a pica nest in permafrost in association with Pleistocene-age mammals such as mammoth and rhino. Analysis of microscopic remains (pollen and phytoliths) was undertaken to identify local vegetation at the time each of these dung deposits accumulated.

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

Four samples from lightly stained basin features at Site LA 60977, New Mexico were submitted for pollen and phytolith analyses. Two of the samples, from Features 9 and 11 were analyzed for pollen and two, from Features 10 and 12, were analyzed for phytoliths. Site LA 60977, is located south of the Moriarty Airport, approximately 43 miles east of Albuquerque, New Mexico. The goal of this analysis is to identify use of the features through pollen and phytolith analyses.