POLLEN ANALYSIS AT THE HOUGHTON ROAD SITE, (AZ BB:13:398), ARIZONA

Summary

The Houghton Road Site is located within the city limits of Tucson, Arizona

immediately west of Houghton Road between Tanque Verde Road and Speedway

Boulevard. It is situated on the flood plain at the convergence of the Tanque

Verde and Agua Caliente washes. This Hohokam site has been archaeomagnetically

dated to AD 400 to 600. Although it is a typical Hohokam site, some Mogollonlike

architectural components are noted. This site includes large deep square

houses, cremations and inhumations, dog burials, Archaic lithics, large San Pedro

points, and a variety of other artifactual remains. Stratigraphic pollen samples

were examined from the fill of Feature 18, a large deep pithouse that contained

charred corn kernels in one floor feature. Pollen samples were also collected

and examined from plastered extramural surfaces, the rooffall of a plastered

rectangular pithouse, from a shallow pit, a burial, and a roasting pit, and from

the wash of a piece of groundstone. Examination of pollen at this site was

directed towards recovery of subsistence data, including not only what plants

were processed, but where these plants were processed within the site.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• PaleoResearch Institute

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