Green River Basin, Southwestern Wyoming (Geographic Keyword)
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POLLEN ANALYSIS FOR THE BLUE POINT SITE (48SW5734), GREEN RIVER BASIN, SOUTHWESTERN WYOMING (2000)
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The Blue Point Site (48SW5734) contains a Pleistocene paleosol, an Alberta/Cody occupation, and other Archaic occupations. Radiocarbon ages from cultural features range from 9540 ± 40 BP to 7030 ± 210 BP. Stratigraphic pollen samples were collected from a column that contains deposits below the Pleistocene paleosol, which yielded a radiocarbon age of 12,110 ± 40 BP from bone collagen, well into Stratum II, above an Early Archaic occupation, estimated at 7200- 7300 BP. This stratigraphic...