Blue Creek, CO (Geographic Keyword)

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda J. Scott. PaleoResearch Institute.

Three pollen and three soil samples from an Archaic encampment (5EA484) near Basalt in Eagle County were submitted for analysis. Site 5EA484 is located in a pinon/juniper forest at an elevation of 6810 feet along a bench above Blue Creek in the Roaring Fork River Valley in west central Colorado. The pollen samples were taken from the present ground surface, from the fill of a slab-lined roasting pit or firehearth (F eature 2), and from a layer 20 cm below the present surface. The soil...