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

Two sites, located within the upper limits of Cedar Lake Draw in the Loco Hills, include a scatter of artifacts, burned caliche, and thermal features. The absence of middens argues for temporary settlements defined by simple fire hearths and a light scatter of artifacts that include flakes, cores, hammerstones, groundstone, and an occasional brownware sherd. Radiocarbon dates indicate occupation falls between approximately 2880 and 6280 BP. Combined pollen, phytolith, and starch analysis...

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

Six chert projectile point fragments were submitted for protein residue analysis, along with two probable smoking pipe fragments for pollen, phytolith, starch, and organic residue analysis. As both pipe fragments belonged to the same pipe the fragment with the least naturally occurring asphaltum on the exterior was selected for organic residue analysis, and both fragments were used for pollen, phytolith, and starch analysis. The pipe fragment selected for organic residue analysis was tested...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Kathryn Puseman. Linda Scott Cummings.

A Clovis projectile point from Site 13WD101 in Sioux City, Iowa, was analyzed for possible protein residues. This projectile point had a calcium carbonate encrustation that was removed prior to protein residue analysis and was examined for pollen to identify any pollen and/or phytoliths that might represent vegetation at the time the calcium carbonates formed on the tool. A small reworked Clovis or Goshen projectile point from Site 39CL09 in Vermillion, South Dakota, also was tested for possible...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Chad Yost. Linda Scott Cummings.

A hand stone and 4 slab fragments cut from a large boulder were submitted for protein residue analysis from the Paisley 5 Mile Point Caves, Oregon. Previous work by other researchers has identified the presence of a variety of mammal and fish protein residue and DNA at the Paisley Caves. Because of the age of this site, the suite of protein residue antisera used to test these artifacts included elephant, camel, and horse, representing Late-Pleistocene fauna now extinct in North America. In...

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

Forty artifacts from site 11PK1702 in Bay Creek valley, Pike County, western Illinois, were submitted for ethnobotanic analyses. Twenty-two lithic tools were analyzed for protein, and fourteen ceramic sherds, two hammerstones, and two groundstones were tested for organic residues using Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy (FTIR). Pollen, starch, and phytolith analysis were also performed on two of the ceramic sherds. Site 11PK1702 represents a special function lithic workshop with intensive...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings.

Semi-lunar pre-contact stone tools, recovered from two sites (Walker Point Site, Bluff Section, RI-653 and the Susquetonscut Brook Pre-Contract Site 4, 71-033), were submitted for protein residue analysis as part of a research project studying their use. The sites are situated along the Seekonk River in Rhode Island and above Susquetonscut Brook in the Yantic River drainage in eastern Connecticut.

DOCUMENT Citation Only Ross G. Hilman. Keith H. Dueholm. Rhoda O. Lewis.

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DOCUMENT Full-Text Kristin L. Fangmeier.

The City of Phoenix (COP) Street Transportation Department (STD) is conducting road and storm drain improvements. The project will require the relocation of an existing Salt River Project (SRP) irrigation line, located on U.S. Bureau of Reclamation land. Because federal lands are involved, the project is considered a federal undertaking subject to compliance with Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act of 1966, as amended. It also follows applicable COP policies and requirements as...

DOCUMENT Citation Only William Gray Johnson.

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The Roosevelt Rural Sites Study (RRSS) was one of three data recovery mitigative studies that the Bureau of Reclamation funded to investigate the prehistory of the Tonto Basin in the vicinity of Theodore Roosevelt Dam. The series of investigations constituted Reclamation's program for complying with historic preservation legislation as it applied to the raising and modification of Theodore Roosevelt Dam. Reclamation contracted with Statistical Research, Inc., to conduct this study. The RRSS...

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The Roosevelt Rural Sites Study (RRS) was one of three data recovery mitigative studies that the Bureau of Reclamation funded to investigate the prehistory of the Tonto Basin in the vicinity of Theodore Roosevelt Dam. The series of investigations constituted Reclamation's program for complying with historic preservation legislation as it applied to the raising and modification of Theodore Roosevelt Dam. Reclamation contracted with Statistical Research, Inc. to conduct this study. The RRS was...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings.

A single ceramic sherd was submitted for residue analysis from a site on Saipan's west coast. The residue from this sherd was removed at Paleo Research Institute and treated to recover phytoliths and starches that might reflect foods cooked in the vessel.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Chad Yost. Linda Scott Cummings.

Four ground-stone tools from Site LA 143755 were examined for starch grains and phytoliths. Site LA 143755 is a Late Archaic campsite in a stratigraphically buried context located along New Mexico Highway 128 in Lea County, New Mexico. The goal of this analysis is to identify microscopic plant remains that may be present on the working surfaces of these tools.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Chad Yost. Linda Scott Cummings.

Nine stone tools, mostly groundstone, were submitted for starch analysis from the Siren Site, 41WM1126, Texas. Because the extraction method produced phytoliths along with the starch, the phytoliths were also examined. The starch grains and phytoliths recovered from the use surfaces of these tools may provide subsistence and tool function information.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Chad Yost.

Samples from the Sainte-Agathe settlement, located along the coastal region of French Guiana, were submitted for starch grain and phytolith analysis. This site was occupied from the 15th century to at least the end of the 16th century. These analyses will be used to identify microbotanical remains that may provide information on subsistence activities at the Sainte-Agathe settlement.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Chad Yost.

A total of 15 artifacts were submitted for starch grain analysis from the Gray Farm site (7K-F-11), located in Kent County, Delaware. These artifacts included stone tools and ceramics that have an Eastern Woodland cultural affiliation. Prehistoric occupation of this site spans the period from 3000 BC to AD 1500, and was followed by historic settlement and farming to the present day. The primary goal of this analysis was to recover and identify starch grains derived from plant resources that may...

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

Four fire-cracked rocks from site 24HL478 in Hill County, Montana, were submitted for starch grain and organic residue analysis. Samples were tested for organic residues using Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy (FTIR). Because the starch extraction method used here also recovered phytoliths, any phytoliths of economical significance also were noted. Starch, phytolith, and organic residue analyses provide information regarding diet, specifically foods that might have been processed in...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Chad Yost.

Site 36MG0443, situated on an upland hilltop in a plowed field in central Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, is comprised of a shallow basin containing approximately 300 jasper flakes. Of the features present at the site, Feature 3 yielded radiocarbon dates of approximately 600 and 700 BC and was occupied during the Early Woodland period. Three lithic samples from Feature 3 were submitted for starch, phytolith, and protein analysis. The goal of the analysis was to identify use of these lithic...

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

Lithic tools, groundstone, fire-cracked rock, charcoal, and sediment samples from sites 42JB1732, 42JB1739, 42JB1749, 42JB1760, 42JB1764, and Keg Mountain Ranch, in the Old River Bed Valley, western Utah, were submitted for starch, protein residue, organic residue, and macrofloral analyses, as well as charcoal identification and AMS radiocarbon dating. The samples were tested for organic residues using Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy (FTIR). A basalt chopper from Clovis site 42TO3794,...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings.

Nine stratigraphic soil samples were collected and examined for both pollen and phytoliths from the Steel's Pass archaeological site (24MA565). This site is located on the southeast-facing flank of the Highland Mountains in southwestern Montana. Stratigraphic pollen and phytolith analyses were undertaken to provide information concerning past vegetation communities to allow interpretation of the paleoenvironment.

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

The Adrien's Landing project encompasses portions of the Holocene floodplain along the Connecticut River in downtown Hartford, Connecticut. This area has seen intensive historic use and probably was a favored location for Woodland villages between approximately 2000 and 300 years ago. Stratigraphic pollen and phytolith analysis was conducted on sediments from several cores removed from these floodplains. These sediments are thought to span approximately the past 12,500 years. Samples were...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings. Chad Yost.

Sample were collected stratigraphically from the west wall of Backhoe Trench 7 at the Mammoth Site (41BX1239) in Bexar County, Texas. These samples were originally designated for diatom and/or phytolith analysis. Upon review of soil conditions at the site, pollen analysis was recommended as the first priority. Due to high sediment pH, diatom and phytolith dissolution was identified as a potential problem. Analysis proceeded on these sediments for the recovery and identification of pollen,...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings. Kathryn Puseman.

A twig that formed part of the framework for the granary at 5RB705 and single zea mays cob, representing maize stored in the granary, were submitted for analysis. Phytoliths were extracted from the cob and measured to obtain a signature of the type of maize represented and also to assess growing conditions under which this corn was grown.