Gilroy, California (Geographic Keyword)

DOCUMENT Full-Text Kathryn Puseman.

Samples from the fill of two cooking pits, two bell-shaped pits, four surface hearths, and one burned area on the surface at site CA-SCL-714H in Gilroy, California, were floated to recover charred macrofloral remains. This site represents a Protohistoric/Historic Costanoan occupation around 1800 A.D. Macrofloral analysis will be used to provide information concerning plant resources utilized by the occupants of this site, particularly use of foods available from the local Spanish missions,...