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DOCUMENT Full-Text Kathryn Puseman. Linda Scott Cummings. Laura Ruggiero.

Soil samples and an asphaltum sample from Sites CA-SBA-671 and CA-SBA-677 on Vandenberg Air Force Base in California were analyzed for macrofloral remains. These sites represent coastal dune bluff sites overlooking the Pacific Ocean. Macrofloral analysis is used to provide information concerning possible plant resources that may have been utilized at these sites.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Cynthia Adkins. Linda Scott Cummings.

A total of 13 macrofloral soil samples and 2 previously 1/8 inch-screened macrofloral samples were collected from Site CA-SBA-223/H, which is a multicomponent prehistoric and historic site located on the coast of North Vandenberg Air Force Base, CA. All samples were recovered from units testing the prehistoric component. Twelve soil samples were collected from undifferentiated (i.e., non-feature) site matrix from TEUs 1-6. One soil sample and two 1/8 inch screened samples were collected...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Kathryn Puseman. Peter J. Gleichman.

Six soil samples from undifferentiated midden deposits at site CA-SBA-990 on North Vandenberg Air Force Base, California, were floated to recover macrofloral remains. This site is a lithic and shell deposit containing chert debitage, flaked stone tools, marine shell, fish and terrestrial animal bone, shell beads, fire-altered rock, and ground stone tools. Radiocarbon dates from shell at the site suggest occupation from the Late Prehistoric into the Protohistoric, approximately A.D....

DOCUMENT Full-Text Kathryn Puseman. Peter J. Gleichman.

Six soil samples from undifferentiated midden deposits at site CA-SBA-990 on North Vandenberg Air Force Base, California, were floated to recover macrofloral remains. This site is a lithic and shell deposit containing chert debitage, flaked stone tools, marine shell, fish and terrestrial animal bone, shell beads, fire-altered rock, and ground stone tools. Radiocarbon dates from shell at the site suggest occupation from the Late Prehistoric into the Protohistoric, approximately A.D....

DOCUMENT Full-Text Kathryn Puseman. Linda Scott Cummings.

Six sediment samples and two adobe brick samples from the Espinosa Adobe, Site CA-MNT-1429H, were floated to recover macrofloral remains. One of the adobe brick samples also was examined for pollen and phytoliths. This site contained an adobe dwelling constructed in 1823 by Salvador Maria Espinosa. The adobe building survived through 1930, but was in ruins by 1954. Macrofloral analysis will be used to provide information to help determine the local plant population at the time of the adobe...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Anonymous.

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DOCUMENT Citation Only R. E. Taylor. L. A. Payen. B. Gerow. D. J. Donahue. T. H. Zabel. A. T. Jull. P. E. Damon.

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DOCUMENT Full-Text Sara Cowie. Patrick Baird. Arthur C. MacWilliams.

During May of 2002, ten mining properties and one residential camp were recorded in the Standard Mining District at Mojave National Preserve. These properties, which date from the late 1800s to recent decades, include abundant mining features and, in many instances, detritus from associated mining camps. Field analyses of artifacts, in conjunction with extensive archival research, provide chronologies of mine use and insights into mining life in this remote area. The information obtained from...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Christopher B Lowman.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "At Stake in the Quad: Archaeologies on/of Campus", at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. How can archaeological pedagogy provide students a greater understanding of the campus they call home? Archaeology classes give undergraduates a greater stake in their surroundings through combining campus history and archaeological theory, methods, and training for the field. These engagements are an opportunity to learn from...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Jamie Bastide. Seth Mallios.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Gender in Historical Archaeology (General Sessions)" , at the 2021 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. During the late 19th and early 20th century, Jim Crow and Sundown Laws dominated SouthernCalifornia. As a previously enslaved man living in a region settled predominantly by Anglo-Americans from the South, Nathan Harrison had to construct his identities within these societal pressures. Using historical documents, oral...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Gordon R. Willey.

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DOCUMENT Citation Only Paulina F. Przystupa.

This is a poster submission presented at the 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. Viewshed analysis is a powerful tool employed by archaeologists to understand the experiences of people in the past. At their core, such analyses estimate what parts of the landscape people could see from specific locations. To do this, these models accept assumptions about similarities between past and present landscapes and statistical complications involved in quantification, such as...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings.

The primary purpose in examining an adobe brick from the 1804 Church at Santa Ines Mission was to search for phytolith evidence that a threshing sledge was used. A stone-floored threshing floor was observed at the site (Tremaine 1992). Costello notes (personal communication, February 2001) that the threshing floor might not date to the first year of the mission, which is represented by this brick. Therefore, digestion of a small quantity of adobe brick was undertaken to provide a sample of...

DOCUMENT Citation Only R. Scott Baxter.

This is an abstract from the session entitled "Fish, Oyster, Whale: The Archaeology of Maritime Traditions", at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Historical Archaeology. For hundreds of years, people have used oyster shell to make cement and concrete, as a soil amendment, and as a dietary supplement for livestock. The shell has mostly been acquired as a byproduct of processing fresh oyster for food. However, in the late nineteenth century deposits of ancient, although not fossilized,...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Meredith, A. Wilson.

The Mojave National Preserve (MOJA) plans to establish a visitor use area to interpret the cultural resources surrounding Fort Piute (CA-SBR-119/H). Fort Piute, a small military outpost built in 1867, is located in the east-central section of MOJA, near the eastern MOJA boundary. The visitor use project area is adjacent to a section of the Mojave Road (CA-SBR-3033/H), within the Fort Piute (CA-SBR-119/H) site boundary, and within site CA-SBR-213/H, a large multicomponent archeological...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings.

Fifteen pollen sample were examined from two stratigraphic columns collected at Rose Spring in eastern California. This stratigraphic record should represent a single sequence from approximately 3,580 to the modern surface. Pollen analysis was conducted to identify changes in local vegetation through time during this interval.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings.

Pollen analysis ofthree samples from CA-KER-4040 and three samples from EAFB-434 was directed towards identification of plants that might have been processed using the two metates recovered from these sites.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings.

Five sediments samples were selected from Site Ca-IMP-7750 for pollen and phytolith analysis. Two samples were collected from the floor or immediately above the floor in a house structure. Two additional samples represent midden outside the house. The fifth sample was collected as a control sample beneath the midden. Pollen and phytolith samples were examined to provide evidence concerning subsistence activities at this site, which appears to have been a fish camp.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings. Thomas E. Moutoux.

Site CA-ORA-950 yielded several broken rocks with a "black core staining" that has been noted at other local sites. These rocks are usually lumped with "fire-cracked" or "thermally altered" rocks. However, they do not exhibit other evidence of heating, therefore, it is possible that the black staining may be the result of cooking residue. Pollen, phytolith, and starch granule analysis were conducted on these rock fragments in an effort to identify their use. No control samples...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings.

Three burned manos and two control samples were collected from a habitation camp east of Aliso Creek in Orange County. The samples were collected from features 10 and 13, which are burned rock features or hearths. The samples were examined in an effort to discern what these manos might have been used to process.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings.

Two samples of honey were submitted to determine the difference that might account for crystallization and bad taste of one of the honeys (Table 1). Pollen, organic residue (FTIR), and elemental analysis (pXRF) were used to investigate possible contaminants and to identify the plants visited by the bees. One sample (sample 2), produced in Atascadero, California, was characterized as having a particularly good flavor. The other sample (sample 1), produced near Morro Bay, California, was submitted...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings.

Site CA-KER-2049 is located in the southern San Joaquin Valley near Buena Vista Lake. A hearth was the focus of sampling. Pollen, phytolith, and starch analysis was conducted on two samples collected from the edge of this hearth.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings.

Three pieces of groundstone recovered from the Diamond Bar project in the northeastern Los Angeles Basin were submitted for pollen, phytolith, and x-ray diffraction analysis to determine what substances might have been ground using these tools. In addition, a sediment sample was examined for pollen and phytoliths to provide a control for interpreting these records.

DOCUMENT Citation Only William J. Wallace.

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DOCUMENT Full-Text Michael C. Hall. James P. Barker. Russell L. Kaldenberg. Jan Townsend.

The report is comprised of two separate "working papers" on the prehistory of the California Desert: 1) Background to Prehistory of the El Paso / Red Mountain Desert Region; and 2) An Archaeological Protection and Stabilization Plan for the Squaw Spring Well Archaeological District near Red Mountain, California. The first report represents the second in a series of regional (i.e., Planning Unit) studies undertaken or scheduled for the California Desert Planning Program, United States...