Ground Stone (Material Keyword)

DOCUMENT Full-Text Will Russell. Karen Gust Schollmeyer. Margaret C. Nelson.

The Phyllis Pueblo site (LA45160) is located on Palomas Creek, a western tributary of the Rio Grande in southwestern New Mexico. Unit 202 is located in the east-central portion of the site and was first excavated in 2009. An unexpected number of superimposed floors and corresponding walls were encountered. Excavation resumed the following year in order to better understand the relationship between these walls, floors, and associated artifacts. Within and adjacent to Unit 202, we encountered...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Will Russell. Colleen Strawhacker. Garrett Trask.

The Phyllis Pueblo site (LA45160) is located on Palomas Creek, a western tributary of the Rio Grande in southwestern New Mexico. Unit 204 was identified in 2009 during excavations in the adjacent room of Unit 202. The former is immediately east of the latter and they appear to have shared a common wall throughout most, if not all, occupations. In 2010, additional excavation was undertaken in the southern section of Phyllis Pueblo. This continued research was designed to answer questions about...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Will Russell.

The Phyllis Pueblo site (LA45160) is located on Palomas Creek, a western tributary of the Rio Grande in southwestern New Mexico. Unit 206 was identified in 2009 during excavation in the adjacent room of Unit 202. The former is immediately north of the latter and they appear to have shared a common wall throughout most, if not all, occupations. In 2010, additional excavation was undertaken in the southern section of Phyllis Pueblo. This continued research was designed to answer questions about...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings.

A grinding slab fragment from an Early/Middle Archaic habitation site (13HN318) in southeastern Iowa was submitted for phytolith analysis in an effort to identify whether or not maize was ground using this tool.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings.

A single piece of groundstone, recovered in Little Antelope Valley in the Long Valley caldera in Mono County, California was examined for phytoliths to obtain information about plants that might have been ground using this tool. Phytolith analysis was selected as perhaps the most likely to yield results because the groundstone had been washed approximately 15 years ago. Therefore, pollen analysis was not deemed to be possible.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings.

The Spring Canyon Site (CA-SDI-16,397) is located in southern San Diego County adjacent to the United States/Mexico border. Radiocarbon ages ranging from 6030 +/- 40 BP to 2060 +/- 60 BP are returned on either charcoal or bulk sediments from the site. This Archaic temporary camp appears to have been used for lithic production and marine and non-marine resource processing. A single metate and its associated soil control sample were examined for phytoliths and starches in an effort to...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Chad Yost.

Six flaked cobble tools from site 45CL435, located in Clark County, Washington, were submitted for phytolith analysis. It is thought that these tools may have been used to process wood, possibly Oregon white oak (Quercus garryana). This is a preliminary investigation to see if phytolith analysis can be used to better understand the function of these tools.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Chad Yost.

Thirteen lithic tools and five groundstone artifacts were submitted for protein residue and phytolith analysis, respectively, from four sites (LA 123288, LA 123289, LA 123291, and LA 123292) on the Rio Grande floodplain near the Sandia Mountains in northern New Mexico. These sites were excavated as part of the proposed I-25 construction. The goal of these analyses is to better understand plant and animal subsistence and utilization at these sites.

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...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings.

Located along a creek in Castro Valley, CA-ALA-566 exhibits evidence of prehistoric occupation between approximately 1150 and 1050 BP. It contains extensive fire-affected rock features and associated light artifact density. A single fire-affected rock was selected and submitted for phytolith and starch analysis in an effort to find evidence of food processing involving these features. A chert core tool was examined for starch and a small mortar was washed at Garcia and Associates to recover...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Chad Yost.

Two grinding stones from northern Chile were washed for phytolith and starch remains. The washes were conducted in Chile and the resulting residue was dried and sent to PaleoResearch Institute for analysis. The goal of the analysis was to identify plant opal phytoliths and starch grains that may be derived from plant material processed with these tools.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings.

Xaltocan OP Z3, situated on a gentle slope in the former Xaltocan-Zumpanog lake bed, is located in the Nextalpan Municipality, Mexico. The artificially constructed island that comprises this site lies in the middle of Lake Xaltocan and dates to the tenth century AD (Kristin De Lucia, personal communication August 8, 2018). Phytolith, organic residue (FTIR), and elemental composition (XRF) analysis were conducted on twelve ceramics representing bowls, a basin, several comals, and numerous...

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

Four sites located in Pennfield Ridge near Cripps Stream in Charlotte County, along the coast in southwest New Brunswick, Canada yielded samples submitted for a variety of analyses. Sites BgDq-38 and BgDp-4 reflect Paleoindian occupations (10,600-11,200 BP), site BgDq-39 reflects the Terminal Archaic and Early Woodland Period (3800-2800 BP), and site BgDq-40 represents a Late Maritime Woodland Period occupation (500-800 BP). The washes from three stone axes at site BgDq-39 were submitted for...

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 Chad Yost.

Two mauls from two different Besant-aged bison kill sites (EjPk-3 and EgPn-111, southern Alberta, Canada) were submitted for protein residue, phytolith and starch grain analysis. The goal of these analyses is to recover and detect plant and animal remains that may be present on the surface of these tools. Such evidence would provide information useful in determining the function of these tools.

PROJECT Michelle Young.

The "Chavín Phenomenon" in Huancavelica, Peru: Interregional interaction, ritual practice, and social transformations at Atalla

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...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Rodney M. Peck.

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DOCUMENT Citation Only Russell Kaldenberg.

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DOCUMENT Citation Only Robert Reynolds.

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DOCUMENT Full-Text Allen Dart. William H. Doelle.

The Pima County Inventory Project was carried out by the Institute for American Research under a contract with the Arizona State Historic Preservation Office (SHPO). Three major tasks were called out in the original scope of work. They are briefly summarized here. 1. Compile all existing data on archaeological surveys and archaeological sites in Pima County. These data are to be plotted on USGS maps of Pima County, and any sites not already in AZSITE are to be coded on appropriate forms....

PROJECT New York State Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration.

This project contains archaeological reports generated as the result of PIN 5002.07.121. 1996 investigations including archaeological and architectural survey in advance of plans for proposed improvements to New York State Route 18F, and the addition of a pedestrian walkway. Records search indicated the presence of 18 prehistoric sites within 2 miles of the project area, and no structures located on properties falling within the project area had been inventoried, or were listed on the State...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Gary Fink.

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

The USACE, Louisville District obtained the collection through an archaeological test excavation at the Pine Grove Site, Lake Monroe Reservoir in 1987. Limited excavations at the Pine Grove Site (12MO183) were done by GBL in contract with the Indiana Department of Natural Resources, Divisions of Reservoirs. A possible Paleoindian component, continuing severe erosion, and the discovery of four pothunter holes prompted the site investigation. The fieldwork was conducted under the supervision...

DOCUMENT Citation Only William E. Soule.

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