Wood & Charcoal Analysis (Other Keyword)
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Seventy-nine flotation samples from an 18th century Mashantucket Pequot homestead in Connecticut were submitted to the Fiske Center for Archaeological Research for paleoethnobotanical analysis in order to examine both the maintenance of and changes in subsistence practices during the reservation period. Wood, nutshells and nutmeat, seeds, and other plant parts were among the thousands of botanical remains recovered. These plant remains came from a variety of ecozones, and may show evidence for...
Macrobotanical Analysis of Feature ER2352/4, A Subfloor Pit Associated with a 19th-Century Slave Cabin from Thomas Jefferson’s Poplar Forest (2009)
Macrobotanicals were analyzed from a sub-floor pit in a 19th century slave cabin located at Thomas Jefferson's Poplar Forest plantation (Virginia) during the tenure of the Hutter family as plantation owners. The thousands of seed and wood remains recovered illustrate that the slaves’ main subsistence strategies were provisioning, or receiving food from the plantation owner, production, or growing their own food, and the procurement of wild resources. These various subsistence strategies...
A Macrobotanical Analysis of Site 11PK1771, a Late Woodlands site in Illinois (2009)
Forty-four flotation samples from a Late Woodlands site located in Pike County, Illinois were submitted to the Fiske Center for Archaeological Research for macrobotanical analysis. Charred wood, nutshells, and charred chenopodium (Goosefoot) seeds formed the majority of the botanical remains recovered. Bowes and Trigg note the excellent fuel woods recovered from the site, as well as the ubiquity and importance of walnuts, hickory nuts, and hazelnuts in Native diets. The large number of...
A Macrobotanical Analysis of Site 33PE807, an Early Archaic to Late Prehistoric Site in Ohio (2009)
Twenty-one flotation samples obtained from the Rockies East Pipeline archaeological project Site 33Pe807 were examined for botanical remains. Site 33Pe807 is located in Ohio and was occupied from the Early Archaic to the Late Prehistoric period. Bowes notes the predominance of hardwoods among the charred wood specimens recovered, as well as the presence of black walnut and hickory nuts. Many seeds and botanical remains were unidentifiable due to poor preservation.
A Macrobotanical Analysis of Site 33PE839, an Early and Middle Woodlands Period Lithics Workshop (2009)
Ten soil samples from an Early and Middle Woodlands period quarry-related lithics workshop in Ohio were submitted to the Fiske Center for Archaeological Research for macrobotanical analysis. This limited activity site was not expected to yield many botanical remains, although Bowes and Trigg did identify charred hickory (Carya), oak (Quercus), and elm (Ulmus) wood, as well as one hickory nutshell and one charred chickweed (Stellaria) seed among the remains submitted for analysis. Radiocarbon...