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DOCUMENT Full-Text R.A. Varney. Chad Yost. Linda Scott Cummings.

Five stratigraphic sediment samples from two locations at the Blacklog Narrows, Aughwick Watershed, Cromwell Township, Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania were submitted for pollen and phytolith analysis to help determine vegetation and climate change. The older deposits represent Pleistocene deposits more than 29,000 radiocarbon years old, while the younger set represents Holocene deposits.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings.

An Ovis (sheep) coprolite recovered from Eagle Cave in Val Verde County, Texas, was submitted for pollen and phytolith analysis.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings. Chad Yost.

Site 15OH161, an east-facing sandstone rockshelter site in Ohio County, western Kentucky, yielded evidence of multiple occupations. While only the Archaic and Early to Middle Woodland occupations were sampled for pollen analysis and radiocarbon dates reported for features from this site range from 6050 ± 40 BP to 4230 ± 40 BP, there is also a Late Woodland/Mississippian component. Only the Archaic components were in good context, therefore. Considerable disturbance as a result of human looting...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings. Chad Yost.

Fort Center, located in Glades County, Florida, provides evidence of Late Archaic; Early, Middle, and Late Woodland, Belle Glades, Calusa, Protohistoric, Seminole, and finally 19th and 20th century occupations. Thus, occupation at this 2.5 square km earthwork site dates between 800 BC and at least the late 1800s (Victor Thompson, personal communication, September 2010). Earlier work at this site included pollen analysis that reported consistent finds of Zea mays pollen. Verification or denial of...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings. Chad Yost.

Fort Center, located in Glades County, Florida, provides evidence of Late Archaic; Early, Middle, and Late Woodland, Belle Glades, Calusa, Protohistoric, Seminole, and finally 19th and 20th century occupations. Thus, occupation at this 2.5 square km earthwork site dates between 800 BC and at least the late 1800s (Victor Thompson, personal communication, September 2010). Earlier work at this site included pollen analysis that reported consistent finds of Zea mays pollen. Verification or denial of...

DOCUMENT Full-Text R.A. Varney. Chad Yost. Linda Scott Cummings.

Four samples from lightly stained basin features at Site LA 60977, New Mexico were submitted for pollen and phytolith analyses. Two of the samples, from Features 9 and 11 were analyzed for pollen and two, from Features 10 and 12, were analyzed for phytoliths. Site LA 60977, is located south of the Moriarty Airport, approximately 43 miles east of Albuquerque, New Mexico. The goal of this analysis is to identify use of the features through pollen and phytolith analyses.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings.

Site 38CH1541, dating to the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, represents the main Mullet Hall Plantation settlement. Mullet transferred the property to James Legare, but there is little evidence of occupation postbellum. Samples from three Colonial era trash pits, two wall trenches, and four storage pits, were examined for pollen and phytoliths to inform concerning economic activities at the plantation. Site 38CH1542 includes two linear slave settlements, appearing on maps in 1854. One...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings.

The Fort Benning Data Recovery Project includes eight sites within Chattahoochee County, west-central Georgia. Sites 9CE1041 and 9CE1942 are situated in the sand hills of the Coastal Plains, near Columbus, Georgia. One sediment sample from each was submitted for pollen and phytolith analysis to ascertain environmental and cultural information from these sites.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings. Chad Yost.

Previous pollen analysis of a sample associated with a burial from site 41HY163 in south-central Texas yielded possible evidence of Zea mays pollen. Because the identification was tentative, an additional soil sample was submitted to PaleoResearch Institute for testing. Pollen and phytolith analyses were conducted for the specific purpose of finding any evidence for the presence of Zea mays or to find pollen types that might be confused with Zea mays. After completion of the pollen and phytolith...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings. Chad Yost. R.A. Varney.

Previous pollen analysis of a sample associated with a burial from site 41HY163 yielded possible evidence of Zea mays pollen. Because the identification was tentative, an additional sample was submitted to Paleo Research Institute for testing. Pollen and phytolith analyses were conducted for the specific purpose of finding any evidence for the presence of Zea mays or to find any suspicious looking remains that might be confused with Zea mays.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings.

Two sediment cores from Drayton Hall were submitted for pollen and phytolith analysis of sediments at two depths for each core to search for evidence of rice agriculture. Core 1 was collected from the middle portion of the basin, while Core 2 represents the upper portion. Two pollen and two phytolith samples were examined from each core after it was opened and described.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings.

The Kendal Plantation, site 32BW788, Brunswick County, North Carolina, contains architectural features and artifacts associated with an eighteenth century historic settlement. Remaining architectural components include brick scatter and piles, as well as evidence of two chimneys, a cistern, piers, and foundations. Pedestrian survey collected ceramics likely used by homeowners and slaves, with mean dates ranging from 1720–1866 (Michael Trinkley, personal communication April, 2, 2015). Pollen...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings. Chad Yost.

Five sediment samples were collected from Upper Pleistocene, Missoula glacial outburst megaflood couplets from site 45GR2509, located above the Columbia River on the east side. These stratigraphic samples were examined for pollen and phytoliths to provide a paleoenvironmental record.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings. Chad Yost. R.A. Varney.

The Blue Mound site, located in Beaver County, Oklahoma, approximately five miles east and south of the Bull Creek drainage, was cored to recover sediments dating to the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM), approximately 18,000 radiocarbon years before present. The site includes an 11 m high silt dune, which overlies a playa. Two sediment samples were selected from the playa (lower) sediments in the core and submitted for pollen and phytolith analysis. Proximity of this site to those that have already...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings. R.A. Varney.

Two cores were collected from two locations at the Ford Dry Lake Playa in eastern Riverside County’s Chuckwalla Valley, California. Remote assessment of the dry lake was made using Google Earth. Coring was conducted under the guidance of the Genesis Solar Energy Project Geoarchaeologist near two of the locations suggested by PaleoResearch Institute staff. Two cores measuring 25 feet each and consisting of drive intervals of 5 feet were submitted for analysis to provide a description of...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings.

Site 48LN2041, located in the Muddy Creek drainage between Kemmerer and Opal, Wyoming, was discovered as part of the Ruby Pipeline Project. It lies approximately 5 miles south of the Hams Fork. Four groundstone fragments, a whole metate, and four soil control samples were submitted for pollen and starch analysis for the purpose of providing subsistence information and interpreting cultural economic activities at this site.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings.

Site 48SU2800, located in the northern portion of the Green River Basin, yielded evidence of an Archaic occupation. Radiocarbon dates of 3050 ± 40 BP and 3990 ± 40 BP are reported for two of the features. Four basin hearth features were examined to recover pollen and starches that would provide information concerning plants processed by occupants of this site.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings.

The Calabria Site in Fremont, California is a habitation site that contains a large, moderately disturbed midden and several burials. A flower pot mortar, located above the right arm of Burial 15, was sampled for pollen and starch analyses. This mortar is typical of the Augustine Period.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings.

Sites CA-MEN-3638 and CA-MEN-3678 were recorded by Pacific Legacy as part of the Caltrans Willits Bypass Project and are located in Mendocino County, California. Site CA-MEN-3638 is a prehistoric cultural deposit situated on the northern cut-bank of Upp Creek in the western region of the Little Valley wetlands. A ground stone pestle (Sample 0256) recovered from Site CA-MEN-3638 was submitted to PaleoResearch Institute for pollen and starch analysis. Site CA-MEN-3678 is a prehistoric lithic...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings.

Site 48CR9375, located in the eastern portion of the Washakie Basin, includes several open-air, hearth-tethered activity areas. Radiocarbon dates of 5850 ± 40 BP, 5350 ± 40 BP, and 5760 ± 40 BP were returned on two hearths and an isolated feature, respectively, indicating occupation at the end of the Great Divide phase and beginning of the Opal phase of the Early Archaic Period. A piece of groundstone recovered from an activity area adjacent to Feature 9, an unlined basin hearth, and a control...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings.

Site 41CV389 is located at the confluence of Cowhouse and Table Rock Creeks in Fort Hood, Texas. Two samples were collected from features and analyzed for pollen and starches to find evidence of economic activity.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings.

A prehistoric open campsite, 48SU2326, located east of Sand Draw on a rolling plain, was excavated in association with pipeline trench construction. A cultural horizon (Stratum IIb) yielded evidence of a single occupation represented by numerous thermal basins (Brent Buenger, personal communication April 8, 2015). One modern surface sample and three stratigraphic samples, representing the cultural stratum and the strata immediately below and above it, were submitted for pollen analysis to...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings.

Site 48SW17760, located in Sweetwater County, Wyoming, documents a prehistoric camp on the east side of a low hill that occupies the eastern side of an interfluvial ridge in the northeastern portion of the Washakie Basin (Matthew Kautzman, personal communication May 4, 2015). Open trench inspection of 2010 pipeline construction and subsequent auger, shovel, and test units identified features and artifacts, dated to 1280 ± 40 BP, or the Uinta Phase (Matthew Kautzman, personal communication May...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings. Paul M. Miller.

Sites 5DA3208 and 5DA3419 are located south of the town of Parker in Douglas County, Colorado. A 2017 excavation of Site 5DA3208 by ERO Resources revealed a multicomponent prehistoric open camp centered on a knoll overlooking Newlin Gulch (Marcus Espinosa, personal communication, November 21, 2018). Based upon identification of associated cultural materials, ERO suggests that Site 5DA3208 was most intensely occupied during the Late Archaic period. Additional evidence for Early Ceramic and Middle...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings.

Site 48SU3993 exhibits three cultural components representing the Great Divide phase of the Early Archaic, the Opal phase of the Early Archaic, and the Pine Spring phase of the Late Archaic. Situated in the northern portion of the Wyoming Basin, this hunter-gatherer open camp represents multiple short-term residential camps. Pollen analysis of the modern surface, three stratigraphic samples, and nine thermal feature samples, as well as starch analysis of the same nine thermal feature samples,...