Pollen (Material Keyword)
Use for any microscopic plant remains
1,326-1,350 (2,995 Records)
Northland Research, Inc. (Northland) prepared this research proposal in response to a request from Judy Brunson of Salt River Project (SRP) for archaeological investigations of a portion of AZ U:9:116(ASM), also known as Los Guanacos (other designations include AZ U:9:41[ASU], AZ U:9:71[ASU], and Alta Vista). The project area consists of the proposed site of the SRP Central Support Complex in Tempe, Arizona. Archaeological Research Services (ARS) conducted archaeological testing of this...
Plant Microfossils Recovered from Dental Calculus at Casas Grandes, Mexico (2016)
Microfossil analysis is a technique used to better understand prehistoric diets. As part of a larger multinational project, we gathered and analyzed 112 samples of dental calculus (fossilized plaque) from human remains discovered at Paquimé and other sites in the Casas Grandes river valley to identify various microfossils still present in the silica matrix. With this information, we are able to better understand the flora present during ancient times and how it was used (food, processing, etc.).
Plant Utilization in Southeastern New Mexico: Botany, Ethnobotany and Archaeology (2017)
This guide covers the most common plants found in the Bureau of Land Management, Carlsbad Field Office (CFO) region and documents their uses by the Native peoples of Southeast New Mexico, both archaeologically and historically. This book provides descriptions and photographs of 55 families, covering 172 species, with another 159 species mentioned as part of the description of a similar species, for a total of 331 plant species. There are over 700 photographs, 190 tables, and 190 figures....
Plants and People in Ancient Ecuador: The Ethnobotany of the Jama River Valley (2004)
"Plants and People in Ancient Ecuador: The Ethnobotany of the Jama River Valley" explores the interrelationships between the prehistoric residents of a small valley in coastal Ecuador (South America) and the dry tropical forest habitat in which they lived. The book has three related objectives. First, "Plants and People in Ancient Ecuador" is an ethnobotany, a work that explores how, through the medium of culture, people shape and are shaped by the world in which they live. I take as my...
Platform Mounds of the Arizona Desert: An Experiment in Organizational Complexity (1993)
Platform mounds were built by the prehistoric Salado and Hohokam people of southern Arizona from the 13th through the 15th century A.O., the Classic period. They are basically artificial, flat-topped hills on which the ruling families of the day built their homes. Additional residences and storage rooms were built around the base of a mound, and the whole was enclosed within a compound wall. Each mound was the administrative, ceremonial, and economic center for a small-scale political system,...
PLC dataset from San Andrés, Tabasco, México
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POLLEN ANALYSES OF SAMPLES FROM SITE 48CR11230, CARBON COUNTY, WYOMING (2020)
Site 48CR11230 is situated in the southeastern portion of the Great Divide Basin, approximately five miles north of the Continental divide. Hansen Eraw and an ephemeral drainage are located approximately three quarters of a mile to the west-northwest and 430 m to the south, respectively. Sited along the northwest slope of a north-south trending ridge approximately 7066 feet above mean sea level, this site is covered by an aeolian sand sheet. Multiple hunter-gatherer open camp fire pits were...
POLLEN ANALYSIS ALONG THE MOUNTAIN BELL UNDERGROUND CABLE ROUTE FOR SITES AZT:4:38(ASM) AND AZN:16:7(ASM) (1987)
Nine pollen samples were submitted for analysis in conjunction with archaeological testing along the Mountain Bell Underground Cable route. These samples included eight from AZT:4:38(ASM), a site which had been examined previously, and one from AZN:16:7(ASM). These samples were examined for pollen in an effort to identify cultural activities, and identify agricultural crops at AZT:4:38(ASM). Samples were analyzed primarily from rock alignments and agricultural field locations at...
POLLEN ANALYSIS AND AMS RADIOCARBON DATING FOR MITCHELL LAKE, DURANGO, COLORADO (2023)
Mitchell Lake was tested to recover pollen samples and provide organics for one AMS radiocarbon date. One modern ground surface sample and one sediment sample taken near the base of the wetland core were analyzed for their pollen content.
POLLEN ANALYSIS AND AMS RADIOCARBON DATING OF SEDIMENT FROM GEO TRENCHES IN RESACA PALO ALTO, BROWNSVILLE, TEXAS (2011)
A series of geo trenches were excavated across the Resaca Palo Alto, into the levees, and just outside the Resaca near Brownsville, Texas. Resaca Palo Alto is a paleochannel of the Rio Grande River. The Resaca deposits consist of three sediment packages deposited during different episodes of fluvial activity. Pollen analysis was conducted on samples from the geo trenches to provide information concerning the paleoenvironmental history of the Resaca. In addition, charcoal recovered from the lower...
POLLEN ANALYSIS AND BOTANIC IDENTIFICATION OF SAMPLES FROM THE SARAH GULCH SITE, 5DA1564, CENTRAL COLORADO (2003)
A pollen column was examined from the Sarah Gulch site, 5DA1564, in central Colorado to provide information concerning the past environment. Control samples were collected from the modern ground surface on the ridge slope east of the excavations and from the modem Sarah Gulch floodplain. In addition, botanic samples were submitted for identification. This site contains a buried prehistoric cultural component that is believed to date to the Archaic Stage. Activities at the site are believed...
POLLEN ANALYSIS AND CHARCOAL IDENTIFICATION OF SAMPLES FROM SITE 48CR10499, CARBON COUNTY, WYOMING (2017)
Site 48CR10499, located in south-central Wyoming in the eastern portion of the Washakie Basin, is a hunter-gatherer open camp exhibiting evidence of two occupations, including one Early Archaic housepit. Component 2 yielded ten radiocarbon dates ranging from 5720 to 5180 BP, indicating an Opal Phase occupation. Component 1 comprises two distinct open camps dating to 1820 and 1530 BP. Two sediment samples collected from each of the two cultural components were examined for pollen to provide...
POLLEN ANALYSIS AND EXAMINATION OF BULK SEDIMENT SAMPLES FROM WASHINGTON COUNTY, OREGON (2019)
Samples from the Scoggins/Gates Fault Study in Washington County, Oregon were submitted to PaleoResearch Institute for analysis and recovery of appropriate charred materials for radiocarbon age determination. Twenty bulk and fifteen detrital charcoal samples were submitted for identification. In addition, two sediment samples from sag pond deposits were submitted for pollen analysis. Due to budgetary constraints, none of the charcoal was processed for radiocarbon dating at PaleoResearch...
POLLEN ANALYSIS AND IDENTIFICATION OF PLANT REMAINS PRIOR TO RADIOCARBON DATING FOR AN AREA WEST OF CEDAR CITY, UTAH (2004)
Two soil samples from a human-modified ephemeral stream west of Cedar City, Utah, were submitted for pollen analysis to determine if either of these samples represents lacustrine conditions. In addition, macrofloral remains saved from the two pollen samples and an individual charcoal sample were examined for organic material to submit for radiocarbon dating.
POLLEN ANALYSIS AT 24YE353 AND MWAC 89-22, ALONG THE YELLOWSTONE RIVER, MONTANA (1989)
Three hearths at 24YE353 were noted eroding from the northern bank of the Yellowstone River. These features were examined for their pollen and macro floral content to identify common elements of the local vegetation, as well as to address possible subsistence activities. In addition, another site located upstream, MAC 89-22, contained a single hearth, which was sampled for both pollen and macrofloral remains. These samples are being analyzed as part of a program of post-fire assessment...
POLLEN ANALYSIS AT 32BI703, THEODORE ROOSEVELT NATIONAL PARK, NORTH DAKOTA (1989)
Three pollen samples were collected from paleosols at 32BI703. The earliest paleosol yielded a radiocarbon age of 13,070, while the later two paleosols dated to 11,560/10,730 and 2160 BP respectively. Pollen analysis was conducted to identify components of the local vegetation during paleosols representing the early, middle, and late Holocene.
POLLEN ANALYSIS AT 32ME847, NORTH DAKOTA (1989)
A stratigraphic column collected from 32ME847 was examined for pollen to provide a record of prehistoric vegetation in the vicinity of this site. Interpretations of paleoenvironmental conditions are made from the record of vegetation. Middle Archaic, Late Archaic, Woodland, and Late Prehistoric archaeological manifestations were noted at this site.
POLLEN ANALYSIS AT 32MZ278, McKENZIE COUNTY, NORTH DAKOTA (1984)
Site 32MZ278, located on an open, rolling grassland in McKenzie County, was sampled for pollen. The site occupies the western and southern exposures of a large hill approximately 3.5 miles south of the last recorded channel of the Missouri River. Although no diagnostic artifacts were recovered from the test excavations, a Besant point and an Early Plains Archaic side-notched projectile point were recorded during the site survey. Three pollen samples were taken at 10 cm intervals through...
POLLEN ANALYSIS AT 39WW15 (1988)
Five pollen samples were collected from four strata at the Traveis 2 Site, 39WW15. The site represents a PaleoIndian occupation, dated to approximately 9500 BP. This site is located along the left bank of Lake Oahe (Missouri River) in north central South Dakota. Pollen analysis was designed to address environmental conditions at the time of occupation, as well as to identify any change in the vegetation between the occupation and sediments deposited prior to the occupation.
Pollen Analysis at 4-MAD-223 (1976)
Attempt to recover pollen from two surface and a stratified series of archaeological-context samples was only successful for most recently deposited sediments. Moss polster and surface sediment samples yielded statistically comparable pollen spectra.
POLLEN ANALYSIS AT 42EM2492, GOBLIN VALLEY, SOUTHEASTERN UTAH (1998)
Two pollen samples were examined from a Late Archaic (2620 ± 60 BP) archaeological site located approximately one mile north of Goblin Valley State park along the western central edge of the San Rafael Desert. Lithic artifacts recovered at this site included a slab metate that was washed to recover pollen evidence of plant processing. In addition, a modern ground surface sample was examined as a control sample.
POLLEN ANALYSIS AT 42EM959 AND 42EM960 (1980)
Palynological investigations of eighteen soil samples were undertaken in conjunction with archaeological excavations at two sites in Emery County, Utah. These two sites (42EM959 and 42EM960) are small rockshelters located approximately 75 mile apart at an elevation of 6,750 ·feet in a pinyon/juniper woodland ecozone in central Utah. Both sites appear to be Fremont sites dating between ca. AD 400 and AD 1200. A single early Archaic projectile point recovered from the lower strata of 42EM959...
POLLEN ANALYSIS AT 42SA10986, VERDURE CANYON, UTAH (1989)
Pollen analysis of three samples from hearths at 42SA10986 was undertaken to providen information concerning subsistence activities and seasonality of occupation at this site. Individual circular masonry structures containing only a large central hearth represent a Pueblo III occupation in the early AD 1200s.
POLLEN ANALYSIS AT 42SA17446, SAN JUAN COUNTY, UTAH (1986)
Site 42SA17446 is located in the Paradox Basin on the Colorado Plateau between Dry Valley and Lisbon Valley in San Juan County, Utah. The site is a multi-component that may exhibit occupations between the middle Archaic an the Late Prehistoric. Eight features were excavated, although only two of the hearths/roasting pits, which were well-preserved, were sampled for pollen. Pollen analysis for these two features was undertaken to provide subsistence data for the site.
POLLEN ANALYSIS AT 42WS953 (1994)
Site 42WS953 is a mid-size Virgin Anasazi village occupied during P I and late P II, although not continuously. This site lies on a portion of a gravel bar above a strip of arable land along the Santa Clara River above its confluence with the Virgin River. Analysis of 26 pollen samples focuses on identification of subsistence items through examination of samples from floors, hearths, and the midden.