Toland Site, Tucson, pollen (Other Keyword)

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings. PaleoResearch Institute.

The Toland Site. located on the eastern outskirts of Tucson, Arizona, is an open sherd and lithic scatter. Ceramics indicate an occupation during the "Middle Rincon Sub phase (AD 1000-1100) of the Hohokam chronology (Elson 1986)" (Earl Sires, written communication, February 7, 1989). The floors of two pithouses were sampled for pollen beneath trivets, a bowl, and a mano, and two manos were washed for their pollen content. Pollen analysis at this site was geared toward the recovery of...