Naval Air Weapons Center (Geographic Keyword)

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PHYTOLITH AND STARCH ANALYSIS FOR A HANDSTONE FROM SITE CA-SBR-14, SAN BERNARDINO COUNTY, CALIFORNIA (2018)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings.

Site CA-SBR-14, a rock shelter situated south of Pilot Knob Valley, is situated at an elevation of 3,500 ft on the South Range east of the Naval Air Weapons Center, China Lake in San Bernardino County, California. Radiocarbon dates of AD 1485–1650 and diagnostic artifacts indicate the site represents a Late Prehistoric occupation during the Rose Spring time period. Located in the ethnographic region of Kawaiisu, the site is culturally affiliated with the Numic. Feature 1 contained three...


POLLEN, PHYTOLITH, STARCH, PARASITE, AND MACROFLORAL ANALYSES, AND AMS RADIOCARBON DATING FOR TWO COPROLITES FROM CHAPMAN CAVES, SITE CA-INY-1534, CALIFORNIA (2012)
DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings. Chad Yost. Kathryn Puseman.

Two coprolites from the Chapman Caves collection were submitted for pollen, phytolith, starch, parasite, and macrofloral analyses. Chapman Caves, site CA-INY-1534, is located on the Naval Air Weapons Center (NAWS), China Lake, California, and consists of two small rockshelters/caves that had been previously excavated from 1967-1969 by Timothy Shaw Hillebrand. The two coprolites submitted for analysis had not been previously recorded and were recently found labeled in the Chapman Caves collection...