POLLEN AND PHYTOLITH ANALYSIS FOR ROCK PILES, SITE AZ EE:3:48(ASM), TUCSON BASIN, ARIZONA

Summary

Pollen and phytolith analyses were undertaken on samples from three rock piles at AZ EE:3:48, the Cottonwood Wash Rock Pile site. These rock piles are situated in semidesert

grassland and probably represent Hohokam dry farming features used during the Classic period

between AD 1100 and 1300. Rock piles often are interpreted to be associated with agave

cultivation, although both maize and cotton pollen also have been recovered from sediments associated with rock piles in the Tucson Basin (Fish et al. 1992). This analysis was undertaken

to assist in identifying what plants might have been grown in these rock piles.

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