POLLEN AND MACROFLORAL ANALYSIS OF SAMPLES FROM THE CREANOR SITE, CA-SJO-2981, CALIFORNIA

Summary

Site CA-SJO-2981, located in present day Stockton, California, is an historic privy site

situated on a large acreage that was owned and built upon by Judge Charles M. Creanor.

Judge Creanor was a wealthy and historically important figure in Stockton during the mid-nineteenth

century. He constructed a large home on the Stockton Channel in the 1850s and

resided there until his death in 1882. Thousands of artifacts were identified at the site,

including liquor and medicine bottles, ceramic tableware, toys, chandelier crystals, straight pins,

dentures, combs, lamp chimneys, and faunal and fish remains from meals. Four pollen and five

macrofloral samples were examined from fill associated with the privy to provide information

concerning foods eaten and trash disposed of by the privy users.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• PaleoResearch Institute

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