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DOCUMENT Full-Text Chad Yost. Linda Scott Cummings.

Groundstone tools and ceramic sherds from site 41PN175 were submitted for pollen, phytolith, and starch grain analyses. This site is a middle-late Caddoan farmstead or hamlet located in Panola County, in eastern Texas. Pollen, starch, and phytolith analyses were used to recover and identify microscopic plant remains derived from processing and cooking activities.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings.

Playa 9 is a complex of sites surrounding a tiny playa approximately 1.5 km south of Scott's village. Pollen and phytolith analysis examine hearth fill and structure floors from this area to identify evidence of subsistence activities. Occupations examined in this study range from 420 BP to 1300 BP.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings. Chad Yost.

Thirty-five samples of sediment adhering to a variety of vessels and grinding stones from the site of Gegharot in Armenia were examined for pollen and phytoliths. Samples were obtained by washing the tools in the field, then submitting the washes to PaleoResearch Institute. They were received in two shipments, allowing preliminary analysis of the first fifteen samples to assess issues of preservation prior to completing the study. Recovery of both pollen and phytoliths from the initial samples...

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

Pollen and phytolith analyses were undertaken on three samples from an off-site stratigraphic profile to provide a description of local and regional vegetation that could be interpreted to provide paleoenvironmental information. This profile was exposed in a backhoe trench located offsite, but near a Mesilla Phase archaeological site at Ft. Bliss, Texas. The trench transected five strata that appear to be a buried paleosol overlain by a recent eolian sand sheet. The paleosol consists of a...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings.

Stratigraphic sediment samples were collected at Ais Giorkis for phytolith analysis. The uppermost sample serves as a modern analog, and radiocarbon ages indicate the profile is intact (Rolfe Mandel, personal communication, January 5, 2018). Phytolith analysis was requested because isotope values show a C3 signature with little variation through time (Rolfe Mandel, personal communication, January 5, 2018). Pollen analysis was recommended by PaleoResearch Institute staff as the better measure of...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings.

Nine phytolith samples and six pollen samples were submitted for analysis from Tor al-Tareeq and Thalab al-Buhayra, Jordan as part of the Eastern Hasa Late Pleistocene Project (EHLPP). These samples represent Early Upper Paleolithic deposits along an ancient lake at Thalab al-Buhayra and Early Epipaleolithic and Neolithic occupations at Tor al-Tareeq. Pollen and phytolith analyses was undertaken to inform concerning local vegetation associated with a Pleistocene lake and a series of...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings.

Three burned manos and two control samples were collected from a habitation camp east of Aliso Creek in Orange County. The samples were collected from features 10 and 13, which are burned rock features or hearths. The samples were examined in an effort to discern what these manos might have been used to process.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings.

Site 38CH1541, dating to the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, represents the main Mullet Hall Plantation settlement. Mullet transferred the property to James Legare, but there is little evidence of occupation postbellum. Samples from three Colonial era trash pits, two wall trenches, and four storage pits, were examined for pollen and phytoliths to inform concerning economic activities at the plantation. Site 38CH1542 includes two linear slave settlements, appearing on maps in 1854. One...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings.

The Fort Benning Data Recovery Project includes eight sites within Chattahoochee County, west-central Georgia. Sites 9CE1041 and 9CE1942 are situated in the sand hills of the Coastal Plains, near Columbus, Georgia. One sediment sample from each was submitted for pollen and phytolith analysis to ascertain environmental and cultural information from these sites.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings. Chad Yost.

Fill samples from a possible agricultural mound at site CSH 53 and a basalt mound at site CSH 62, Maui, Hawaii, were submitted for pollen and phytolith analysis. These analyses were undertaken to identify what plants were grown at the agricultural mound and identify a function for the basalt mound.

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

Combined pollen and phytolith samples were examined from three features at 32MO1374 and 32MO1375, located in Morton County, North Dakota. Site 32MO1374 is located on the bank of Otter Creek, while site 32MO1375 lies on the terrace above the creek. Pollen and phytoliths were examined to provide information concerning vegetation at the time of occupation and also identify plants processed in these features.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings.

The Palawai 9 project area is situated on Manele Bay of Lanai Island within Maui County, Hawaii. Two samples from a possible agricultural mound and a terrace of unknown function at Site T-06112013-1 were submitted for pollen and phytolith analysis. Analysis was undertaken to address use of the mound and terrace and to help determine if either represents pre-contact Hawaiian occupation.

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

Fifteen manos and metates from the Talega Site (CA-ORA-907) were submitted for pollen or phytolith analysis. This multi-occupation, habitation site yielded radiocarbon ages that ranged in age from 500 to at least 9,620 BP, while dates from the third pedostratigraphic unit ranged from cal BP 4370-3800. Older features from the fifth pedostratigraphic unit are estimated to range in age from 6,000 to 8,000 years old (Personal communication, Michael Tuma, July 27, 2004). Seven of these...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings. Chad Yost.

Previous pollen analysis of a sample associated with a burial from site 41HY163 in south-central Texas yielded possible evidence of Zea mays pollen. Because the identification was tentative, an additional soil sample was submitted to PaleoResearch Institute for testing. Pollen and phytolith analyses were conducted for the specific purpose of finding any evidence for the presence of Zea mays or to find pollen types that might be confused with Zea mays. After completion of the pollen and phytolith...

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

Previous pollen analysis of a sample associated with a burial from site 41HY163 yielded possible evidence of Zea mays pollen. Because the identification was tentative, an additional sample was submitted to Paleo Research Institute for testing. Pollen and phytolith analyses were conducted for the specific purpose of finding any evidence for the presence of Zea mays or to find any suspicious looking remains that might be confused with Zea mays.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings.

Two sediment cores from Drayton Hall were submitted for pollen and phytolith analysis of sediments at two depths for each core to search for evidence of rice agriculture. Core 1 was collected from the middle portion of the basin, while Core 2 represents the upper portion. Two pollen and two phytolith samples were examined from each core after it was opened and described.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings. Chad Yost.

The Blackwater Draw Locality on the llano estacado in northeastern New Mexico has been the focus of archaeological study intermittently over the past several decades. Analysis including both pollen and phytolith proxy records was undertaken to provide paleoenvironmental information for time periods it spanning from the Folsom occupation into post-occupational sediments. Four localities within this area were selected for the initial testing. In part, this testing was exploratory in nature to...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings.

The Kendal Plantation, site 32BW788, Brunswick County, North Carolina, contains architectural features and artifacts associated with an eighteenth century historic settlement. Remaining architectural components include brick scatter and piles, as well as evidence of two chimneys, a cistern, piers, and foundations. Pedestrian survey collected ceramics likely used by homeowners and slaves, with mean dates ranging from 1720–1866 (Michael Trinkley, personal communication April, 2, 2015). Pollen...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings. Chad Yost.

Four sediment samples representing buried A horizons at the Military Trail and Badger Hole sites in the panhandle of Oklahoma were submitted for pollen and phytolith analysis to determine the extent of preservation. The Military Trail profile is located in Harper County, Oklahoma approximately 1 mile from the Jake Bluff and Cooper bison kill sites. The Badger Hole site is located approximately 300 m from Jake Bluff. Preliminary pollen and phytolith analysis of these sediments was undertaken to...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings.

Site MU 125A is located near the south rim of the Grand Canyon and has no temporal cultural affiliation. Pollen and phytolith analyses were conducted on sediments from four terraces within an agricultural terrace system at this site. Pollen and phytolith analysis address identification of remains from possible agricultural use of these terraces.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings. Chad Yost.

Site 48CA2834, a lithic scatter and campsite located on private land on the east and west sides of Holmes Draw drainage, was excavated over a period of years. A single sediment sample collected from a living surface observed at the site, located in Campbell County, Wyoming, was examined for pollen and phytoliths to identify economic activity on the surface.

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

The Rigdon Meadows Site (35LA343) is located within the Rigdon Ranger District of the Willamette National Forest, Oregon. The site covers approximately three acres and extends beyond the meadow into the adjacent and surrounding forest. Both prehistoric and historic artifacts are noted at this site. Four stratigraphic soil samples were recovered from a test unit immediately adjacent to Rigdon meadows, and were submitted for pollen and phytolith analysis. The pollen and phytolith record help...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings. Chad Yost.

Sites 26847, 26852, and 13384 are located on the lower slopes of the volcanic peak of Hualālai in Kailua-Kona, Hawai’i. Ten fill samples from an open agricultural area, an agricultural wall, and a habitation/activity enclosure within these sites were submitted for pollen and phytolith analysis. The goal of the analysis is to identify plant resources utilized by the occupants of this site.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings. Chad Yost.

Five sediment samples were collected from Upper Pleistocene, Missoula glacial outburst megaflood couplets from site 45GR2509, located above the Columbia River on the east side. These stratigraphic samples were examined for pollen and phytoliths to provide a paleoenvironmental record.

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

The Blue Mound site, located in Beaver County, Oklahoma, approximately five miles east and south of the Bull Creek drainage, was cored to recover sediments dating to the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM), approximately 18,000 radiocarbon years before present. The site includes an 11 m high silt dune, which overlies a playa. Two sediment samples were selected from the playa (lower) sediments in the core and submitted for pollen and phytolith analysis. Proximity of this site to those that have already...