POLLEN ANALYSIS AT THE ADMIRALTY SITE (CA-LAN-47), CALIFORNIA

Author(s): Linda Scott Cummings

Year: 1991

Summary

The Admiralty Site is an urban site located near Marina del Rey in West

Los Angeles, California. The excavated portion of this site consists pri

marily of a midden approximately 60 cm in depth. The midden includes dark

A-horizons that contain food, shell, fire-cracked rock, lithics, as well as

small quantities of faunal material and shell beads. No stratigraphic

components or-features were noted at the site. Stratigraphic samples were

collected from three test pits within the midden. The pollen record ad

dresses subsistence and to identify elements of the vegetation communities

at the time of occupation, and hence interpret past environmental condi

tions. Radiocarbon dates of humates indicate that the site was occupied

between 500 and 1100 AD.

Cite this Record

POLLEN ANALYSIS AT THE ADMIRALTY SITE (CA-LAN-47), CALIFORNIA. Linda Scott Cummings. PRI Technical Report ,1990-090. 1991 ( tDAR id: 375279) ; doi:10.6067/XCV8QZ294Q

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