POLLEN/STARCH, MACROFLORAL, BOTANIC, AND CHARCOAL ANALYSES AT TEN ARCHAEOLOGICAL SITES IN THE BYU GRAND STAIRCASE-ESCALANTE BIG FLAT SURVEY - 2001, UTAH
Author(s): Kathryn Puseman; Linda Scott Cummings
Year: 2003
Summary
Pollen/starch, macrofloral, charcoal, and botanic samples were examined from slab-lined
pits at ten sites in the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument, south-central Utah. These
sites are part of the 2001 Brigham Young University Grand Staircase-Escalante Big Flat Survey.
The BYU research effort focused on the upper Escalante drainage during the Late Holocene, from
about 2000 to 500 years ago. During this time, farming was developed and utilized, then eventually
disappeared. Both Fremont and Kayenta Anasazi adaptations are present at this time. After the
farming period, human populations returned to a hunting and gathering subsistence strategy.
Pollen and macrofloral analyses will be used to help determine the function of the slab-lined pits,
as well as to address subsistence and seasonality information.
Cite this Record
POLLEN/STARCH, MACROFLORAL, BOTANIC, AND CHARCOAL ANALYSES AT TEN ARCHAEOLOGICAL SITES IN THE BYU GRAND STAIRCASE-ESCALANTE BIG FLAT SURVEY - 2001, UTAH. Kathryn Puseman, Linda Scott Cummings. 2003 ( tDAR id: 378990) ; doi:10.6067/XCV8XD1142
Keywords
Culture
Fremont
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Kayenta Anasazi
Material
Macrobotanical
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Pollen
Investigation Types
Data Recovery / Excavation
General
Botanics
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Charcoal
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Macrofloral Analysis
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Pollen/Starch Analysis
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Slab-Lined Pit
Geographic Keywords
Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument, Utah
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