Onslow County, North Carolina (Geographic Keyword)

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

Two soil samples were examined from 310N235, a Late Woodland coastal settlement in Onslow County, North Carolina. These samples represent a trash pit and fill from a burial pit. Pollen and phytolith analysis were undertaken to identify plant foods exploited by the occupants of this site. In particular, maize appears to have been part of the diet as interpreted by the high incidence of dental caries and stable carbon isotope values returned from human bone. No macrobotanic evidence for maize...