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Phytoliths
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There is no recorded maize (Zea mays ssp. mays) at Laurel or North Bay Initial/Middle Woodland sites in the northern Lake Michigan-Huron or Superior basins of the western Great Lakes, despite the presence of maize microbotanicals in Michigan, New York, and Quebec as early as 400 BC. To evaluate the potential for an early maize presence in this region, samples of carbonized food residues adhering to sixteen ceramic vessels from the Laurel/North Bay Winter site (20DE17) were processed and...
Data Recovery at Site 16VN794: Investigations into Site Formation Processes and the Cultural Squence of West Central Louisiana (1993)
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DENTAL CALCULUS ANALYSIS OF A SINGLE TOOTH FROM SITE SON:F:10:3, MEXICO (2005)
Dental calculus was recovered from a burial in northern Sonora, Mexico was submitted for analysis that would identify any pollen, phytoliths, starches, or other identifiable remains that might inform concerning the diet of the individual.
Developing a microfossil key for Fiji from modern herbarium specimens (2015)
Microfossil analysis provides a valuable proxy for inferring prehistoric environmental conditions as well as direct evidence for the presence of agricultural domesticates and other important subsistence cultigens. However, the body of reference material for identifying individual plant morphotypes is lacking. Here we present our preliminary efforts at assessing the efficacy of modern herbarium specimens as a key for identifying archaeological sedimentary and calculus-derived microfossils. We...
Kitchen Affairs: First Insights into the Intimacies of Food Plant Preparation at El Flaco, Northern Dominican Republic (XII–XV Centuries) (2018)
Ongoing investigations by the Nexus 1492 Synergy Project (Leiden University) at El Flaco archaeological site, has revealed the existence of an interesting Amerindian hamlet chronologically situated between XII and XV centuries. People who lived and died there, being carriers of the Meillacoid and Chicoid traditions, kept their kitchen areas extremely close to their houses, leaving noticeable remnants of their processing tools (shell scrapers, rudimentary grinding stones), cooking pots and...
Lessons from the Tello Obelisk- domestication and plant use at Chavin de Huantar, Peru (2015)
The work of Dolores Piperno has significantly advanced our understanding of the rise of agriculture in the tropical Americas. Her work has been fundamental in the development of microbotanical techniques used to understand the use of plants in the past. This paper builds off of Dolores' analysis of plants depicted on the Tello Obelisk, at the site of Chavin de Huantar in Peru, in order to consider the role that plants from distinct ecological zones across the Andes played at the temple site....
Long-Term Climate Change: A Case Study on Climate Records from the Middle East in Relation to the Neo-Assyrian Empire Agriculture (2019)
This is an abstract from the "SAA 2019: General Sessions" session, at the 84th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology. The Neo-Assyrian Empire as one of the major empires in the Ancient Near East emerged soon after late Bronze Age collapses. It ruled Mesopotamia from the eastern Mediterranean Sea to western parts of Iran and to Persian Gulf during the first millennium B.C. in a cold period in theHolocene Epoch. For my thesis, I am focusing on their plant cultivation,...
Phase III Archeological Data Recovery at the Beehive Site (18HO206), Howard County, Maryland (1996)
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POLLEN AND PHYTOLITH ANALYSIS OF SAMPLES FROM THE EAST GARDEN, STRATFORD HALL PLANTATION, WESTMORELAND COUNTY, VIRGINIA (2013)
Soil samples from the East Garden of the 18th-century Stratford Hall Plantation in Westmoreland County, Virginia, were submitted for pollen and phytolith analysis. Results will be used to assist with the process of identifying plants cultivated in the possible planting bed features of the garden.
POLLEN, PHYTOLITH, STARCH, AND ORGANIC RESIDUE (FTIR) ANALYSIS OF SAMPLES FROM SITE 26CH3345, CHURCHILL COUNTY, NEVADA (2013)
Site 26CH3345 is a near surface Late Archaic (Rosegate) site situated in the Carson Lake basin in Churchill County, Nevada. Excavations exposed a basalt bowl mortar with burned contents resting on top of a steep-sided, flat based ash stain presumed to be a cooking feature. The mortar was submitted for phytolith, starch, and organic residue (FTIR) analysis and AMS radiocarbon dating. Soil controls were also submitted for pollen, phytolith, and starch analysis. Results from this analysis address...
POLLEN, PHYTOLITH, STARCH, MACROFLORAL, PROTEIN, AND ORGANIC RESIDUE (FTIR) ANALYSES AND AMS RADIOCARBON AGE DETERMINATION OF SAMPLES FROM THE OLD PLACE NECK SITE, STATEN ISLAND, NEW YORK (2013)
Samples from the Old Place Neck Site (A08501.002971) on Staten Island, New York, were submitted to undergo various analyses including charcoal identification and AMS radiocarbon dating, as well as phytolith, starch, pollen, protein residue, and/or organic residue (FTIR) analysis, the latter using Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy (FTIR). One ceramic sherd, accompanied by a soil control sample, was examined for evidence of food processing using pollen, phytolith, and starch analysis....
POLLEN, STARCH, AND PHYTOLITH ANALYSIS OF SAMPLES FROM CERRO JUANAQUERA, MEXICO (2002)
Five combined pollen, starch, and phytolith samples were examined from Cerro Juanaquera, Mexico. Because previous pollen analysis at a different lab had determined that there was insufficient pollen to recommend further analysis, phytolith analysis was requested. Fortunately, this study was able to examine both the pollen and phytolith records. In addition, starches are recovered in pollen samples and are reported when they are present. In large part, this study functions as an examination...
Starch Grain Analysis of Human Dental Calculus from Guanzhuang Site, Henan Province (2017)
This research aims to investigate the human foodstuffs and lifestyle during the Western and Eastern Zhou Dynasties in the core area of the Central Plains using starch grain analysis of human dental calculus. Plant microfossils, starch grains and phytoliths, which were found in most of calculus samples from Guanzhuang site, were from millets, bread wheat, rice, adzuki, tubers and acorns. Diversity of starch grains and phytoliths in morphological characteristics extracted from dental calculus...
The trajectory of early rice intensification and cultural change in the Lower Yangtze Valley revealed by an ecological analysis of archaeological phytoliths. (2015)
Using data from modern and archaeological phytolith assemblages we follow the trajectory of wild rice cultivated on wetland margins at 5000 BC through early domestication and the first artificial arable systems in dug out fields at c. 4000 BC to fully developed irrigated paddy fields in the Lower Yangtze Valley. Using multivariate analysis with phytolith assemblages from ecological communities of rice weed flora across a range of arable systems we create modern analogues of ancient systems which...