Phytolith Analysis (Other Keyword)

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings.

The Spring Canyon Site (CA-SDI-16,397) is located in southern San Diego County adjacent to the United States/Mexico border. Radiocarbon ages ranging from 6030 +/- 40 BP to 2060 +/- 60 BP are returned on either charcoal or bulk sediments from the site. This Archaic temporary camp appears to have been used for lithic production and marine and non-marine resource processing. A single metate and its associated soil control sample were examined for phytoliths and starches in an effort to...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings.

The primary purpose in examining an adobe brick from the 1804 Church at Santa Ines Mission was to search for phytolith evidence that a threshing sledge was used. A stone-floored threshing floor was observed at the site (Tremaine 1992). Costello notes (personal communication, February 2001) that the threshing floor might not date to the first year of the mission, which is represented by this brick. Therefore, digestion of a small quantity of adobe brick was undertaken to provide a sample of...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Chad Yost.

A total of 26 sediment samples from agricultural field contexts were submitted for phytolith analysis from the site of Las Capas (AZ AA:12:111), which is located near Tucson, Arizona. Las Capas is an early agricultural period site that utilized canal irrigation for maize and possibly other cultivated plants. The sediments submitted for phytolith analysis are from Stratum 504, which spans a date range of 950 B.C. to 800 B.C., and places them within the San Pedro Phase Early Agriculture period....

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings. Paul M. Miller.

Site AZ T:12:206(ASM), formerly AZ T:12:54(ASU), represents agricultural field cells, lateral canals, and an artifact scatter on an alluvial terrace above the north bank of the Salt River in Maricopa County, Arizona. Given its proximity, Site AZ T:12:206 may be an extension of the previously recorded village Site AZ T:12:52(ASM). During Phase II data recovery of the site, WestLand Resources, Inc. revealed prehistoric lateral canals (running more-or-less parallel to the Salt River) in association...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Chad Yost.

Sediment samples from two pit features were submitted for phytolith analysis from site 40LD221, located in Loudon County, Tennessee. These are Woodland period features that appear to have been used as storage pits. Phytolith analysis was undertaken to better understand the function of these features and their contents.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings.

Four ceramic sherds recovered from site 47MT71 located along the northeastern shore of Green Bay in Wisconsin were processed to recover phytoliths that might inform concerning the foods cooked in the vessels represented by these sherds. This site was occupied during the Late Woodland (ca. AD 660-860). At the time of contact this area was occupied by the Menominee Indians, also known as the Wild Rice People. Wild rice glumes produce phytoliths that are identifiable, so phytolith analysis was...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Chad Yost.

Four soil samples were submitted for phytolith analysis from the Weir Farm NHS property, located in Fairfield County, Connecticut. The goal of the analysis was to recover and identify plant opal phytoliths derived from some of the plants that may have been grown within the historic garden area that is currently a terraced lawn west of the Weir House (Area 1).

DOCUMENT Full-Text Chad Yost. Kathryn Puseman.

Ten phytolith samples were examined from a Jefferson-era layer in an area believed to be associated with a clump of ornamental trees and bushes planted in 1812 at the northeast corner of the octagonal house located at Poplar Forest plantation in Forest, Virginia. An oval flower bed planted with dwarf roses was established nearby. Four additional phytolith samples were taken from features directly associated with the ornamental tree clump and flower bed. For this study, phytolith analysis was...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings.

Three phytolith samples were examined from the Bowmer Site (41BL116) in southern Bell County, Texas. Sediments sampled range in age from Archaic through Late Prehistoric. Phytolith analysis was undertaken to provide information concerning prehistoric vegetation.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings.

Outside of the city of Lynchburg, Virginia, Thomas Jefferson constructed his Poplar Forest retreat house near the center of his Bedford County plantation in 1806. A large carriage turnaround in front of the north side of the main octagonal portion of the house, as well as the surrounding five acres of grounds, were planted with ornamental landscaping. A circular road lined with trees bounded the property. Archaeological investigations of the turnaround have exposed various features associated...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Chad Yost.

Six flaked cobble tools from site 45CL435, located in Clark County, Washington, were submitted for phytolith analysis. It is thought that these tools may have been used to process wood, possibly Oregon white oak (Quercus garryana). This is a preliminary investigation to see if phytolith analysis can be used to better understand the function of these tools.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings.

Phytolith analysis was conducted on samples from eight archaeological sites along US Highway 491 in western New Mexico. Analysis was undertaken to provide information concerning both the past environment and subsistence activities at these testing phase sites that varied in age from approximately 4490 BC until AD1670/1950.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Chad Yost.

The Bull Creek III site is situated in a short grass prairie biome along side the Bull Creek in the High Plains physiographic region of western Beaver County, Oklahoma. Although the location has not been reported as a cultural site, three sediment samples were submitted for phytolith analysis. The goal of the analysis was to provide greater clarity on the types of grasses on this landscape between 12,550 and 13,210 RCYBP.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Chad Yost.

Site CEEU-4 is bordered by the Cap Rouge and St. Lawrence Rivers to the west, and is approximately 15 kilometers west of Québec City, Canada. The site is a 16th Century settlement know today as Fort Cartier-Roberval. Samples were collected by site CEEU-4 researchers and submitted to PaleoResearch Institute for phytolith analysis. The goal of the analysis was to recover and identify diagnostic phytoliths that could aid in identifying subsistence practices by the site occupants. Phytolith analysis...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Chad Yost. Linda Scott Cummings.

A total of 16 soil samples from the Coctaca site, located in Jujuy Province, Argentina, were submitted to PaleoResearch for interlab cross-checking of phytolith extraction techniques and analysis. Stratigraphic soil samples from four different types of possible agricultural features were submitted for analysis.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Chad Yost. Linda Scott Cummings.

Sixty-four samples collected from Sanak Peak Lake on Sanak Island using a Livingston piston corer were submitted for extraction of phytoliths and other biogenic silica (Table 1).

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

Feature fill and fire-crack rock recovered from a historic roasting pit at the Tontozona Tarantula site (AZ 0:12:119) in the Tonto National Forest in Gila County, Arizona were submitted for phytolith and organic residue analysis, respectively. The fire-cracked rock was tested for organic residues using Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy (FTIR). Phytolith and organic residue analysis will be used to gain information regarding function of the pit feature.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings.

A single sediment sample was collected from a layer or context best described as containing organic matter found under a rock in Stajnia Cave. Phytolith analysis was conducted on this sample to identify any evidence that might contribute to understanding the context of this sample. Organic residue analysis using Fourier Transform Infrared Spectrometry (FTIR) also was conducted to better understand organic residues that might still be contained within the sediments.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Chad Yost. Linda Scott Cummings.

Pollen and phytolith analysis of four samples collected from four individual trenches in the Maroon Cliffs special management area was undertaken to provide information concerning whether or not these areas were playas in the past. In addition, these analyses were conducted to assess the paleoenvironment in the vicinity of Late Formative prehistoric sites near Carlsbad, New Mexico.

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

A total of ten sediment samples were submitted for phytolith analysis from the Sentinel Gap site (45KT1362), located in Kittitas County, south-central Washington. Previously, a preliminary study was conducted by PaleoResearch to test the potential for pollen and phytolith recovery from site 45KT1362 (PRI Technical Report 07-114). The data from the two preliminary phytolith and pollen samples and the ten new phytolith samples were combined and are presented together in this report. Eight of the...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Chad Yost. Linda Scott Cummings.

Four pit feature fill samples were submitted for pollen and phytolith analysis from Block D at the Kolomoki Mounds site (9ER1) located in southwestern Georgia. These features date to approximately A.D. 550 to 750 (Late Woodland). The goal of the analysis is to determine if maize was being utilized by the site occupants.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings. Caitlin A. Clark.

Five prehistoric archaeological sites (GaSa-29, GdRr-4, GgRm-1, GiRk-10, and GjRi-4) located throughout the Interior Plateau, Central Canadian Rocky Mountains, and Rocky Mountain Foothills of northern British Columbia, Canada, yielded numerous flaked lithics from various cultural period affiliations. Ten lithic artifacts were submitted by Roy Northern Land and Environmental to PaleoResearch Institute for protein residue analysis. An additional lithic artifact was submitted to PaleoResearch for...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Chad Yost.

Thirteen lithic tools and five groundstone artifacts were submitted for protein residue and phytolith analysis, respectively, from four sites (LA 123288, LA 123289, LA 123291, and LA 123292) on the Rio Grande floodplain near the Sandia Mountains in northern New Mexico. These sites were excavated as part of the proposed I-25 construction. The goal of these analyses is to better understand plant and animal subsistence and utilization at these sites.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings.

Site CA-SBR-14, a rock shelter situated south of Pilot Knob Valley, is situated at an elevation of 3,500 ft on the South Range east of the Naval Air Weapons Center, China Lake in San Bernardino County, California. Radiocarbon dates of AD 1485–1650 and diagnostic artifacts indicate the site represents a Late Prehistoric occupation during the Rose Spring time period. Located in the ethnographic region of Kawaiisu, the site is culturally affiliated with the Numic. Feature 1 contained three...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Chad Yost.

Five soil samples were submitted for phytolith and starch grain analysis from three sites located within the Fort Bliss Military Reservation. All of these samples are associated with possible thermal features that may have been utilized for subsistence related activities. The goal of these analyses was to identify any plant phytolith and starch remains that may have been derived from foods prepared using these features. Phytolith analysis was performed to provide some paleoenvironmental...