Pollen (Material Keyword)

DOCUMENT Full-Text Thomas E. Moutoux. Linda Scott Cummings.

Four pollen samples were collected and analyzed from sites 5RB3566 and 5RB3737 located in Rio Blanco County, Colorado. The two sites contain four hearth features, from which the pollen samples were extracted. Features 1, 3, and 5 at site 5RB3566 provided radiocarbon ages of 1830 + 60 BP, 2190 + 80 BP, and 1490 + 70 BP, respectively. Feature 1 from site 5RB3737 produced a radiocarbon age of 140 + 50 BP. Pollen analyses are used to provide information concerning possible plant resources...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings. Thomas E. Moutoux.

Pollen analysis was undertaken on four samples from clay lenses within gravel deposits in the South Platte River valley north of Denver. Pollen analysis should provide a record of vegetation for each of these clay lenses. If the pollen record is similar to that expected for the Holocene, then the lens may be assumed to be Holocene; and if the pollen record is similar to that expected for the Pinedale glacial advance, then the deposits may be assumed to be of glacial age.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda J. Scott.

Inscription House Pueblo, located in Nitsin Canyon, a side canyon of Navajo Canyon, in north- central Arizona, was the site of archaeological salvage and stabilization during the summer of 1977. The project sponsored by the National Park Service and carried out by the University of Colorado was designed to stabilize portions of Inscription House and salvage a trash midden which was being actively eroded by an arroyo. During the process of excavation, pollen samples were taken to provide further...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings. Thomas E. Moutoux.

Site CA-SCL-674 represents a large prehistoric site containing over 200 burials and numerous mortars, as well as other artifacts. Four mortars were selected for analysis to provide information concerning food processing and possibly inclusion of foods within burials. To assist in interpreting the record recovering from washing the interiors of the mortars, four control samples were examined from the sediment fill of the mortars. A single bone tube recovered from this site was submitted for...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings. Thomas E. Moutoux.

Mummy Lake has long been the object of debate concerning its function. This feature has been interpreted as a prehistoric reservoir and as a dance pavilion. Additional pollen samples have been examined to address the question of function for Mummy Lake. Samples from the Mummy Lake Drainage Basin were examined to identify any evidence of agriculture. The 25-acre drainage basin feeding Mummy Lake might have been farmed, which would have changed its runoff characteristics, since agricultural...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings. PaleoResearch Institute.

Three pollen samples were collected from site 39SH68 during an archaeological survey in Badlands National Park, South Dakota. Analysis of these samples was undertaken to address the feasibility of future pollen studies in this area. The samples were collected from the upper and lower fills of Feature 1, a hearth, and a paleosol.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings.

A sediment sample was collected from the Holland Road Pit Site for pollen analysis. An OSL date of 116,000 years was obtained on gray sediments containing gravel that is overlain by beige sand. The till above the gray sediment is probably a weathered version of the black till from the Rosslyn cut-bank that yielded a radiocarbon date of about 42,000 cal BP.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings.

The Scott Miller Mammoth site is a wetland located in the San Luis Valley, Rio Grande County, Colorado. Four peat samples were submitted for pollen analysis to determine the paleoenvironment of the site.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda J. Scott. PaleoResearch Institute.

Twelve pollen samples were selected for pollen analysis in conjunction with the Navajo-Hopi Land Exchange Archaeological Project in the BLM designated Area III. This area contained a scatter of features and artifacts and is located within the Mesilla Bolson--an intermontane lowland--in Dona Ana County, southeastern New Mexico. The site is situated in a copice dune topography above the floodplain of the Rio Grande West of El Paso. Mesquite is the dominant element in this sparsely vegetated...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings.

The area near Lizard Man Village east of Flagstaff might have been used extensively or intermittently as an agricultural area. Examination of three samples collected from two areas best described as depressions that might represent field areas and another possible field area near a field house for pollen evidence of agriculture provided evidence of maize agriculture.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings.

Fifteen sediments samples collected from sediments in a possible ancient field area and canal were examined for pollen. Pollen analysis was used to determine whether or not evidence exists for use of this area for agricultural fields in the past. Traditional pollen counts were made of each sample, then single microscope slides were scanned to search for Zea mays (maize) pollen, since maize is the most likely agricultural crop. Evidence for maize was recovered in eleven of the fifteen...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings.

Seven pollen samples were examined from two sites in the Cave Creek Recreation Area of northern Maricopa County, Arizona. Rock alignments noted at AZ U:1:98 (ASM) and AZ U:1:100 (ASM) may have functioned as check dams, contour terraces or linear borders, retaining walls, diversions walls, rock piles, and/or rock-weighted brush berms. These areas exhibit no evidence of prehistoric canals, and are assumed to have been watered exclusively by hillslope runoff. Examination of pollen samples from...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings.

Project HAENA 5, located in coastal Hā’ena on the north shore of Kauai, discovered possible wet land lo’i taro agriculture sediments. Therefore, pollen analysis was undertaken on the sediments from both this area at site 50-30-02-458 and also from a nearby area that might include agricultural sediments from site 50-30-04-458.

DOCUMENT Citation Only Paul S. Martin. Floyd W. Sharrock.

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DOCUMENT Full-Text James Schoenwetter.

Paper presented as an invited lecture to graduate students in Botany at Arizona State University. Discusses the history and outcomes of Quaternary pollen studies in the desert Southwest of the United States.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings.

Two ceramic sherds representing a pot and a red bowl were recovered from Tsaghkahovit, Armenia. The cooking pot, recovered from locus 17, exhibited burning on the exterior of the body as well as residue on the inside. The small fineware bowl, found in locus 38, also contained residue on the inside. Residue was scraped from the inside of both of these intact ceramic vessels and submitted for pollen and starch analysis to determine their contents.

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

An alternating stratigraphic pollen column was excavated at Hell's Half Acre County Park, 40 miles west of Casper, Wyoming. Fifteen pollen samples, including a modern surface sample, were selected from the column, which represents stratified layers that include multiple occupations. Radiocarbon ages of 1920 ± 40 BP and 1970 ± 50 BP anchor the lowest occupation at a depth of approximately 112 cm, while an age of 1320 ± 80 BP ties in the upper occupation at a depth of 30 cm. Pollen analysis...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings. PaleoResearch Institute.

Thirteen pollen samples were selected for analysis from 9GE10, a Middle Woodland to Mississippian mound center in central Georgia. Located in the Wallace Reservoir/Lake Oconee area on the Oconee River near Greensboro, Georgia, this site contains evidence of occupation from four time periods (0-100 AD to 550-700 AD). Pollen samples were collected from archaeological features including pits and structures, or mound layers. Analysis focused on recovering data pertaining to local vegetation,...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings.

Three soil samples from the Yakima Training Center in Washington were submitted to Paleo Research Institute for pollen analysis. Two of the samples were collected from 45KT44, and the bighorn sheep skull was noted in the vicinity, but not associated with any archaeological site in the area. Site 45KT44 is a large village site occupied for much of the past 8,000 years. Two samples were collected from trenches "to investigate the geomorphology of the site" (Kimberly Dawson, personal...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings.

The Indian Creek Spring site (24LC0099) is a prehistoric short-term occupation site located at the head of Indian Creek in Helena National Forest, Montana. The site surrounds a spring and extends along the bottom and up the adjacent benches bordering Indian Creek. A modern Forest Service road, along with features and trails associated with cattle ranching, have impacted the site. Excavations have recovered hundreds of flakes, three projectile points, and two scrapers. Soil samples collected from...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings.

Five archaeological sites represent Taino occupation in Jamaica during the late prehistoric period, dating between 900 and 1500 AD. Eight pollen samples were examined from cultural contexts within middens from these five sites to examine plants that were discarded. Pollen analysis was undertaken to identify both local vegetation and plants that were used and subsequently discarded in the middens during the Taino occupations.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings.

Pollen analysis ofthree samples from CA-KER-4040 and three samples from EAFB-434 was directed towards identification of plants that might have been processed using the two metates recovered from these sites.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings.

Site LA 80924, located in northwestern New Mexico, yielded two samples for pollen analysis. A sample from the floor of a Navajo bell-shaped pit (F. 13) and from a profile of sediments comprising the Archaic component of the site were examined for pollen. In addition, a modern ground surface sample was analyzed for comparability.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings.

Sixty-four samples were collected from funerary urns that held cremations at Győr-Ménfőcsanak (Eperföldek). The locations of individual samples have not yet been disclosed. In addition, 12 control samples were collected during excavation by setting out containers with paper smeared with suntan cream to hold the pollen.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings.

Site 48CR10089, the Hugus Cliffs Site, is located in the northwestern portion of the Kindt Basin. Situated on an alluvial fan at the base of Hugus Cliff and along the western margin of an unnamed tributary of Little Sage Creek, this site represents a Middle to Late Archaic open camp. Twelve features are situated within an extensive stain. Radiocarbon dates obtained from seven hearths place occupation generally between 4260 ± 30 and 4030 ± 30 BP, with a single intrusive hearth dating 1520 ± 30...