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DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings. Paul M. Miller. Caitlin A. Clark.

The Avalon Old Bridge Prehistoric Site (28-MI-275) is located near Deep Run in Old Bridge Township, Middlesex County, New Jersey. Phase III archaeological data recovery of the site by RGA Cultural Resource Consultants revealed cultural materials from the Early Archaic to the Woodland periods (Lauren Lembo, personal communication, December 18, 2018). RGA submitted two groundstones (Samples 126a and 359) and two lithic artifacts (Samples 168a and 328) to PaleoResearch Institute for starch analysis...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Chad Yost.

Samples from the Sainte-Agathe settlement, located along the coastal region of French Guiana, were submitted for starch grain and phytolith analysis. This site was occupied from the 15th century to at least the end of the 16th century. These analyses will be used to identify microbotanical remains that may provide information on subsistence activities at the Sainte-Agathe settlement.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Chad Yost.

A total of 15 artifacts were submitted for starch grain analysis from the Gray Farm site (7K-F-11), located in Kent County, Delaware. These artifacts included stone tools and ceramics that have an Eastern Woodland cultural affiliation. Prehistoric occupation of this site spans the period from 3000 BC to AD 1500, and was followed by historic settlement and farming to the present day. The primary goal of this analysis was to recover and identify starch grains derived from plant resources that may...

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

Hearth fill samples recovered from sites LA 72399 and LA 118226 in Eddy County, New Mexico, were submitted for starch, macrofloral, and organic residue analyses. A small ceramic sherd from LA 72399 also was examined for organic residues. Samples were tested for organic residues using Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy (FTIR). Starch, macrofloral, and organic residue analyses provide information on culturally utilized materials, specifically those related to diet, including foods processed...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings. Melissa K. Logan.

A ceramic vessel rim sherd recovered from Canyon Ferry Lake in Lewis and Clark County, Montana was submitted for starch, organic residue analysis, and AMS radiocarbon dating. The ceramic was tested for organic residues using Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy (FTIR).

DOCUMENT Full-Text Melissa K. Logan. Chad Yost.

Four fire-cracked rocks from site 24HL478 in Hill County, Montana, were submitted for starch grain and organic residue analysis. Samples were tested for organic residues using Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy (FTIR). Because the starch extraction method used here also recovered phytoliths, any phytoliths of economical significance also were noted. Starch, phytolith, and organic residue analyses provide information regarding diet, specifically foods that might have been processed in...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Chad Yost.

Site 36MG0443, situated on an upland hilltop in a plowed field in central Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, is comprised of a shallow basin containing approximately 300 jasper flakes. Of the features present at the site, Feature 3 yielded radiocarbon dates of approximately 600 and 700 BC and was occupied during the Early Woodland period. Three lithic samples from Feature 3 were submitted for starch, phytolith, and protein analysis. The goal of the analysis was to identify use of these lithic...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings. Chad Yost.

A total of five ground stones and one pestle were submitted for pollen, starch, protein residue, and organic residue (FTIR) analysis from site CA-MRP-305/H, located in the Yosemite Valley, and within the boundaries Yosemite National Park. This site is a milling station with contiguous deposits of pestles, handstones, and obsidian flakes. Archaeobotanical and organic residue analysis of these tools will provide information useful to the interpretation of ground stone tool function and subsistence...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Kathryn Puseman. Chad Yost. Melissa K. Logan.

Lithic tools, groundstone, fire-cracked rock, charcoal, and sediment samples from sites 42JB1732, 42JB1739, 42JB1749, 42JB1760, 42JB1764, and Keg Mountain Ranch, in the Old River Bed Valley, western Utah, were submitted for starch, protein residue, organic residue, and macrofloral analyses, as well as charcoal identification and AMS radiocarbon dating. The samples were tested for organic residues using Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy (FTIR). A basalt chopper from Clovis site 42TO3794,...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings. Melissa K. Logan. Chad Yost.

Thirty-six samples, consisting of feature fill, groundstone, fire-cracked rock, and soil controls, from 48SW16971, a multi-component site located southwest of Wamsutter, Wyoming were submitted for starch, protein, and organic residue analysis. Samples were tested for organic residues using Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy (FTIR). Site 48SW16971 is comprised of Transitional Archaic and Formative components that have been identified through radiocarbon dating of unspecified charred...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings. Chad Yost. Melissa K. Logan.

Site 5MF3006, located in Moffat County, yielded numerous manos and metates, indicating that grinding starchy food was important to the occupants of this site. Sampling focus was on groundstone and control samples related to these groundstone. Analyses selected for identifying food processing include starch, protein residue, and FTIR.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings. Jaime Dexter.

Four steatite fragments were collected from site 40BT90 in Blount County, Tennessee, for the purpose of phytolith, pollen, and starch analysis. The four steatite sherds were washed to recover phytoliths, pollen and/or starches that would aid in identifying foods cooked using the steatite vessels.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings. Kathryn Puseman.

Sixteen pollen samples were examined from a core taken at the Blackfoot Cave site, 5DA2358, in southeast Douglas County, Colorado. This rock shelter is unusual in that it has a permanent spring flowing from it, making it a very desirable location for extensive prehistoric and historic use. In 1859, the first house was built at the site. Artifacts attest to Archaic through Historic occupations. The core was taken from a small wetland area in the catch basin of the spring below the cave and...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings. Melissa K. Logan. Chad Yost.

Eight stone tools consisting of two tabular knives, a metate, and seven manos from sites LA 113042, LA 129214, LA 129216, LA 129217, and LA 129300 were submitted for combined pollen, starch, protein, and organic residue analysis. These combined analyses provide a thorough examination, allowing for the potential for multiple lines of evidence to support subsistence strategies and tool function interpretations. In addition, acorns from two locations in New Mexico were submitted for a thorough...

DOCUMENT Citation Only Nicole Herzog. Anne Thomas.

Starches preserved on prehistoric artifacts including ceramics, ground stone and other lithic tools have assisted archaeologists in better understanding the relationships between technologies and food products, food processing, activity areas and tool function. However, little research has been done to identify differential starch preservation across these artifact types. In order to test whether starch preservation is uniform across tool types, and to examine whether starch records are...