Starch Analysis (Other Keyword)

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

A single sediment sample from the upper fill of a heated rock feature at site PL-SCESEG6-08 in Los Angeles County, California, was examined for phytoliths, starch, macrofloral remains, and organic residues, the latter using Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy (FTIR), to look for evidence of foods that might have been processed in this feature. Charcoal from the feature also was identified and submitted for AMS radiocarbon dating to provide temporal information. This feature contained...

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

A piece of fire-cracked rock (FCR) from a pit feature at site 21OT191 in central Minnesota was submitted for phytolith, starch, and organic residue (FTIR) analyses. One fragment of charcoal from the same feature was submitted for identification and AMS radiocarbon dating. These analyses are used to identify plant and animal resources that might have been utilized by the site occupants and to determine the age of the pit feature.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings.

Site 21-85 is located within the Western New England Marble Valley subzone with the Vermont Valley extending north towards Massachusetts. The site is situated in Canaan, County Lichfield, Connecticut on the edge of Robbins Swamp. Robbins Swamp was important to Native Americans during the pre-contact period as an ecological and cultural resource. Four soil control samples for 16 lithics from a various depths and units were submitted for protein analysis. Additionally, three ceramic samples were...

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

Sherds from two ceramic vessels with visible residue from the Metz site (33ER557) were submitted for phytolith, starch, organic residue (FTIR), and x-ray diffraction (XRD) analysis. Two celts were submitted for phytolith, starch, protein residue (CIEP), and FTIR analysis. Phytolith, starch, protein residue, and organic residue analyses were undertaken to better understand what foods may have been prepared or processed using these items. XRD analysis of the exterior slip coating provides...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings.

Samples from three archaeological sites in southwestern Wyoming were examined for pollen and/or starch to identify plants that might have been processed. One of the samples submitted represents the modem surface, and acts as a control for interpreting the other samples.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings.

Fill from a small diameter, cylindrical hearth/oven was examined for pollen and starches. This hearth probably dates between AD 600-AD 950 and is located on Horse Creek.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings.

Three soil samples and one ground stone artifact from upland sites in the Sandhills of North Carolina were submitted for pollen analysis. The Blackjack Site (31CD1035) and the McFadyen Pond Site (31CD1008), both of which are of unknown cultural affiliation and date, are in vegetational communities dominated by longleaf pine, wire grass, and small oaks. Samples examined from the blackjack site represent a ground stone wash and soil collected from beneath the ground stone artifact. The McFayden...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings. Peter Kováčik. Jammi L. Ladwig.

Wolf Village, 42UT273, is a Fremont site located north of the mouth of Goshen Canyon in Utah County, Utah. Radiocarbon dates on corn from this site range from AD 840 to 1,000. Investigating the subsistence base includes examining four pieces of groundstone for pollen evidence of grinding. Six ceramic pipes also were submitted with the goal of identifying the single best sample for analysis of pollen, phytoliths, starch, macrofloral remains, and organic residue (FTIR). Two more pipe samples...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Kathryn Puseman. Linda Scott Cummings.

The fill from three hearths at site 48SW13143 in southwest Wyoming was examined for pollen, starch, and macrofloral remains. This site consists of a low density scatter of lithic debris and some fire-cracked rock, and it is believed to represent a secondary lithic workshop associated with reduction of locally available lithic resources. Four shallowly buried hearths were exposed during pipeline construction. Pollen, starch, and macrofloral analysis of the fill from three of the hearths will...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Chad Yost. Linda Scott Cummings.

Groundstone tools and ceramic sherds from site 41PN175 were submitted for pollen, phytolith, and starch grain analyses. This site is a middle-late Caddoan farmstead or hamlet located in Panola County, in eastern Texas. Pollen, starch, and phytolith analyses were used to recover and identify microscopic plant remains derived from processing and cooking activities.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings.

Site 38CH1541, dating to the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, represents the main Mullet Hall Plantation settlement. Mullet transferred the property to James Legare, but there is little evidence of occupation postbellum. Samples from three Colonial era trash pits, two wall trenches, and four storage pits, were examined for pollen and phytoliths to inform concerning economic activities at the plantation. Site 38CH1542 includes two linear slave settlements, appearing on maps in 1854. One...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings. Paul M. Miller.

The Kahanahou WWPS Upgrade and Sewer Improvements Project area in Kāne‘ohe, which includes Site SIHP #50-80-10-0343 and SIHP #50-80-10-8820, is located in the district of Ko‘olaupoko on the windward (ko‘olau) side of O‘ahu. Site SIHP #50-80-10-0343 represents the Kalokohanahou Fishpond, a loko kuapā (fishpond with seawalls) likely in use by the 14th century (if not earlier) and filled in the 1940s for residential development (G. Farley, personal communication, 3 June 2019; Kikuchi 1972:9,213)....

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings.

Site 48LN2041, located in the Muddy Creek drainage between Kemmerer and Opal, Wyoming, was discovered as part of the Ruby Pipeline Project. It lies approximately 5 miles south of the Hams Fork. Four groundstone fragments, a whole metate, and four soil control samples were submitted for pollen and starch analysis for the purpose of providing subsistence information and interpreting cultural economic activities at this site.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings.

The Searcher Site in Brewster County, Texas contains multiple archaeological sites that are being examined individually. Site 02-387 represents a Late Paleoindian occupation. A pollen and starch analysis of fill from this feature was undertaken to provide information concerning the paleoenvironment and the types of plants that might have been processed.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings.

The Calabria Site in Fremont, California is a habitation site that contains a large, moderately disturbed midden and several burials. A flower pot mortar, located above the right arm of Burial 15, was sampled for pollen and starch analyses. This mortar is typical of the Augustine Period.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings.

Sites CA-MEN-3638 and CA-MEN-3678 were recorded by Pacific Legacy as part of the Caltrans Willits Bypass Project and are located in Mendocino County, California. Site CA-MEN-3638 is a prehistoric cultural deposit situated on the northern cut-bank of Upp Creek in the western region of the Little Valley wetlands. A ground stone pestle (Sample 0256) recovered from Site CA-MEN-3638 was submitted to PaleoResearch Institute for pollen and starch analysis. Site CA-MEN-3678 is a prehistoric lithic...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings.

Site NA 26053, a Prescott Culture site, is located north of the present town of Prescott. A metate was washed to recover pollen to identify plants ground, and two additional soil samples were collected nearby. All three samples were examined for pollen and starches to address food processing in this portion of the site.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings. Thomas E. Moutoux.

A metate was recovered from Feature 1, a large storage pit that yielded a calibrated radiocarbon age of AD 1400-1450 on corn from the fill. This Late Plains Village or early Protohistoric site is located in a dune field between the Cimarron and Beaver River drainages in western Oklahoma. The grinding surface of the metate was washed to recover pollen evidence of foods that might have been ground.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings. R.A. Varney.

A metate recovered from the Moneta Divide Housepit site in the interior Wind River Basin, Wyoming, was submitted for pollen and starch analysis. Radiocarbon ages for this housepit place occupation that yielded the metate approximately 5,390 + 40 BP.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings. R.A. Varney.

A metate collected at site 48SW13159 on the Lost Creek Pipeline Data Recovery project was submitted for pollen and starch analysis. The site lies within the Great Divide Basin just below the crest of Chain Lakes Rim.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings. R.A. Varney.

A single pollen and starch sample from a small carbon stain (Feature 2) was submitted for analysis. Feature 2 yielded a radiocarbon age of 900 ± 60 BP. This site is located in the Cedar Breaks area within the Mescalero Sands of southeastern New Mexico.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings. Chad Yost.

Sites CA-SDI-7074 and CA-SDI-7060 are located approximately 3 miles west of the town of Jacumba, California, near the boarder with Mexico. Various types of stone tools and sediment collected from three features at these sites were submitted for protein residue, pollen and starch analyses. Analyses were undertaken to better understand the plant and animal resources utilized by the site occupants.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings. R.A. Varney. Jaime Dexter.

Two fill samples from a hearth at site 5MF6175 in northwest Colorado were submitted for pollen and starch analysis. The site is believed to have been occupied during the Archaic Era, 400-6400 BC). These two samples will serve as indicators as to the value of future analyses for samples collected from hearth fill. Recovery of pollen and starches might identify possible plant resources available to the occupants of this site.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings. Thomas E. Moutoux.

Twelve metate fragments and a single ceramic sherd from Swallow Shelter in central Colorado were examined to provide evidence of vegetal foods that might have been processed. These metates were recovered from levels 3 through 20, representing much of the stratigraphic sequence of occupation at this site. Radiocarbon ages associated with these levels range from 1100 to 3200 BP.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings.

Site 48CR9375, located in the eastern portion of the Washakie Basin, includes several open-air, hearth-tethered activity areas. Radiocarbon dates of 5850 ± 40 BP, 5350 ± 40 BP, and 5760 ± 40 BP were returned on two hearths and an isolated feature, respectively, indicating occupation at the end of the Great Divide phase and beginning of the Opal phase of the Early Archaic Period. A piece of groundstone recovered from an activity area adjacent to Feature 9, an unlined basin hearth, and a control...