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DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings.

Site 48CR9459 is located along a large, upland ridge in the Washakie Basin of southwestern Wyoming. Soil samples from the bases of five, morphologically similar, basinshaped hearths were submitted for phytolith and starch analysis to determine plants that might have been processed.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Chad Yost.

A small sample of tooth tartar (calculus) was submitted for phytolith and starch grain analysis. This tartar was removed from the teeth of a 12 year old male by Darrell Thomas, D.D.S., Salt Lake City, Utah. This individual was discovered during an excavation conducted by BYU at the Seaman Mound Site. This site is located in a delta estuary of the Provo River flowing into Utah Lake. The goal of this analysis is to gain a better understanding of some of the foods that this individual had ingested...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings.

Site 42DA2026 consists of a few storage features built in a rock fall under a rock shelter above the Green River in Daggett County, Utah. An uncharred corn cob recovered from the wall near the top of Feature 2 was submitted for AMS radiocarbon age determination to ascertain the period of use. Additionally, examination of the morphometric phytolith signature and comparison with other cob signatures was requested for this cob.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Chad Yost. Kathryn Puseman. Melissa K. Logan.

Sediment samples from the Beebe Springs site, 45CH216, were submitted for phytolith, starch, macrofloral, and organic reside (FTIR) analysis. This site is located on the west bank of the Columbia River (Lake Entiat Reservoir), in Chelan County, Washington. This site is a multicomponent site with substantial artifact density. Three prehistoric occupation surfaces have been identified. Mt. Mazama sediments provide a lower-limit date of ca. 6,800 years B.P. Analysis of sediment samples associated...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Kathryn Puseman. Chad Yost.

A total of ten samples from the fill of hearths at sites 32ML0890, 32ML1065, 32ML1073, and 32ML1079 in McLean County, North Dakota, were examined for phytoliths and charred macrofloral remains to provide information concerning plant resources utilized by the various occupants of these sites. PET (Processed Edible Tissue) analysis was conducted on four pieces of charred organic material recovered from the macrofloral samples. PET analysis included examination of organic residues using Fourier...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings. Melissa K. Logan. Chad Yost.

Residue from the bowl of a Late Woodland period clay pipe found at the Military Academy Site in Niantic, Connecticut was submitted for phytolith and organic residue analysis to gain information regarding materials smoked. AMS radiocarbon dating was performed on this residue to obtain a date for the use of the pipe. In addition, the residue was tested for the presence of organic residues using Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Kathryn Puseman. Melissa K. Logan. Chad Yost. Linda Scott Cummings.

Fill samples from thermal features at sites LA 160727, LA 160739, and LA 160741 in southeast New Mexico were examined for phytoliths and macrofloral remains. A single sample from the thermal feature at LA 160727 also was analyzed for pollen. In addition, fire-cracked rocks from the features were tested for the presence of organic residues, especially lipids, using Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy (FTIR). Radiocarbon dates suggest that LA 160727 represents a Late Archaic/Early Mogollon...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Chad Yost. Melissa K. Logan. Linda Scott Cummings.

Three “stone combs” from three different features from the Upper San Pedro Village (AZ EE:12:60) in southern Arizona were submitted for phytolith, protein, and organic residue analysis to determine the materials processed by these tools (Table 1). These analyses were undertaken in an effort to provide information that would indicate their function. Since possible “hafting” areas were visible on at least two of the three tools, protein and organic residue analysis were performed on both the...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings. Jammi L. Ladwig. Melissa K. Logan.

A nearly complete Shoshone Intermountain Ware flat-bottomed jar from site 10TF2130, located in the Auger Falls locality along the Snake River in Twin Falls, Idaho, was inverted on a large Bonneville Flood boulder supported by two natural rock spalls and a large percussion flake. A polished stone was noted downhill from the vessel beneath a boulder. Four small interior pottery sherd fragments exfoliated from this vessel were submitted for AMS radiocarbon dating and phytolith, starch, and organic...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings.

The Unami Creek Open Site, 36BU0445, is situated along Unami Creek in Bucks County, southeastern Pennsylvania. Originally, the site was thought to exhibit evidence of Late Archaic to Early Woodland (3700–2600 BP), Middle Woodland (2000–1700 BP), and Late woodland (1300–465 BP) occupation. Over 5,000 lithic artifacts were recovered, including Fox Creek and Late Woodland triangular projectile points. In addition, a late Woodland radiocarbon date (510–400 BP) was obtained. Fifteen flaked lithics...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings. Caitlin A. Clark.

Midland Site #8 (20MD38), is a multi-component prehistoric site located in Chippewassee Park, Midland County, Michigan. The site was originally situated on stratified floodplain alluvium near the confluence of the Chippewa and Tittabawasee Rivers. In the 1970s, the city of Midland built Chippewassee Park and buried the site under a gravel parking lot and cleared grassy area (Kevin Schwarz, personal communication, November 12, 2018). Current archaeological investigations were conducted by ASC...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings. Caitlin A. Clark.

Located in Buck County, Pennsylvania, the Split Site (36BU0449) is situated in a diabase boulder field, perched above extensive wetlands draining into Ridge Valley Creek. The site is divided into eastern and western halves by the Pennsylvania Turnpike Northeast Extension, which destroyed portions of the archaeological site during construction in the 1950s (Joel Dworsky, personal communication, November 5, 2019). The eastern half (Split Site East) produced a high volume of archaeological...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings. Melissa K. Logan. Chad Yost.

A ceramic rim sherd and two bone fragments from the Ne’hu-lat-poe Village, site 10IH3337, in the Nez Perce National Forest in Idaho County, Idaho, were submitted for AMS radiocarbon dating. This multicomponent site is one of five ancient Nez Perce villages found in the area. Phytolith, starch, and organic residue analyses also were performed on the ceramic rim sherd. The sherd was tested for organic residues using Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy (FTIR). Phytolith, starch, and organic...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings.

Site 21-85 is located within the Western New England Marble Valley subzone with the Vermont Valley extending north towards Massachusetts. The site is situated in Canaan, County Lichfield, Connecticut on the edge of Robbins Swamp. Robbins Swamp was important to Native Americans during the pre-contact period as an ecological and cultural resource. Four soil control samples for 16 lithics from a various depths and units were submitted for protein analysis. Additionally, three ceramic samples were...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Chad Yost. Linda Scott Cummings. Melissa K. Logan.

Sherds from two ceramic vessels with visible residue from the Metz site (33ER557) were submitted for phytolith, starch, organic residue (FTIR), and x-ray diffraction (XRD) analysis. Two celts were submitted for phytolith, starch, protein residue (CIEP), and FTIR analysis. Phytolith, starch, protein residue, and organic residue analyses were undertaken to better understand what foods may have been prepared or processed using these items. XRD analysis of the exterior slip coating provides...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Frank E. Bayham. Richard Berger. Jannifer Gish. Paul E. Minnis. Donald Morris. Rachel Most. M. Steven Shackley. Michael Waters.

The first year of activity on the Picacho Reservoir Archaic Project, or Phase A of the Tucson Aqueduct Cultural Resource Mitigative Data Recovery-Archaic and Lithic Quarry Sites Project, spanned the period from September 22, 1983 to September 30, 1984. The annual report summarizes the field investigations and research efforts at the designated Archaic and quarry sites. An interim evaluation of the artifactual and ecofactual data is presented, and research directions for the coming year are...

PROJECT US Army Corps of Engineers, Mobile District. US Army Corps of Engineers Mandatory Center of Expertise for the Curation and Management of Archaeological Collections, St. Louis District.

This is a store ledger donated by a descendant of the store proprietor. Therefore, this collection is referred to as the Pickensville, Alabama Store Ledger, 1841. This name is consistent throughout the finding aid and the box labels. The extent of this collection is 1.66 (one point six-six) linear feet. The Pickensville Alabama Store Ledger was donated to the United States Army Corps of Engineers by Jimmy Wilbourne and consists of the store’s day by day sales from July 1, 1841 through October...

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Original ledger box lid.

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Close-up of label on original ledger box lid.

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Included document from United States Corps of Engineers with information about Pickensville Store Ledger.

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Ledger packaging upon reception at AVCP.

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Ledger condition upon reception at AVCP showing first page of original Ledger order.

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Ledger condition upon reception at AVCP with approximately half the pages removed from original box.

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Ledger condition upon reception at AVCP showing brittle composition of last few pages of Ledger.

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Ledger condition upon reception at AVCP showing brittle composition of documents set on Ethafoam®.