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DOCUMENT Full-Text Chad Yost.

A small sample of tooth tartar (calculus) was submitted for phytolith and starch grain analysis. This tartar was removed from the teeth of a 12 year old male by Darrell Thomas, D.D.S., Salt Lake City, Utah. This individual was discovered during an excavation conducted by BYU at the Seaman Mound Site. This site is located in a delta estuary of the Provo River flowing into Utah Lake. The goal of this analysis is to gain a better understanding of some of the foods that this individual had ingested...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Chad Yost. Peter Kovacik. Linda Scott Cummings.

Fifteen feature samples, representing mainly basin structure floors, and fourteen control samples collected from various locations, were submitted from site 5MF7046 for phytolith and starch grain analysis. This site is an Archaic-era site located approximately 6 miles south/southeast of the Little Snake River in Moffat County, Colorado. Microbotanical (phytolith and starch) analysis was undertaken to better understand some of the plant resources utilized by the site’s occupants.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Chad Yost.

A total of 14 sediment samples and feature fill samples were submitted for phytolith and starch grain analysis from an Archaic Period campsite located in Sweetwater County, Wyoming. Samples consisted of controls collected from around the site and from various types of intramural features excavated into room floors. This analysis was undertaken to better understand feature function and some of the plant resources utilized by the site occupants.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Chad Yost.

Three samples representing two controls and one hearth feature from a basin house (Structure 1) were submitted for phytolith and starch grain analysis from site 5MF3012. This site is located in northwestern Colorado along the Yampa River, and has yielded evidence for multiple Archaic Period occupations, as well as a Late Prehistoric component. This microbotanical analysis was undertaken to better understand some of the plant resources utilized by the Archaic Period site occupants.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Chad Yost.

Seven feature fill samples and one soil control sample were submitted from site 5MF3582 for phytolith and starch grain analysis. This site is an Archaic buried prehistoric campsite discovered in 1991 during pipeline survey work. The site is located in northwestern Colorado on a sandy ridge west of Deception Creek in Moffat County, Colorado. Microbotanical analysis was undertaken to better understand some of the plant resources utilized by the site occupants.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings.

The Pinto site (48CR10382) is located in the eastern portion of the Washakie Basin in Carbon County, south central Wyoming. Excavations have exposed thermal basins, a housepit feature, and associated artifacts at this multi-occupational hunter-gatherer site. Two components identified at the site produced radiocarbon dates between 4810–5100 BP (Component I) and 5510–5540 BP (Component II) (Susan Murray, personal communication December 3, 2014). Fill from four pit features were submitted for...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings.

Charred organic residue from a ceramic rim sherd from an Early Woodland habitation site (13WP306) in south central Iowa was examined for phytoliths and starches in an effort to recover evidence of foods cooked in the ceramic vessel.

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

A total of 22 soil samples from various pit contexts were submitted for phytolith and starch analysis with one ceramic fragment submitted for ceramic residue analysis from sites 20OT283 and 20OT3, located in west-central lower Ottawa County, Michigan (Table 1). A total of 9 radiocarbon dates associated with these sites place the timing of the most intensive periods of use in the Late Woodland (Prehistoric) period (Table 2). These sites are thought to represent large resource acquisition,...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings.

The Aeolus site, located in southeastern New Mexico, was an ephemeral camp site associated with the Eastern Jornada Mogollon. Two sediment samples, collected in 1985 from the fill of a possible hearth feature and from a cultural level nearby, were submitted for starch and phytolith analysis to contribute information concerning economic activity at the hearth.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings.

Several steatite and ceramic sherds from site 36PE16 in Pennsylvania were analyzed for residues. Previous testing of the site indicated multiple, stratified occupations dating from Paleoindian to Late Woodland. The steatite and ceramic sherds were washed to recover phytoliths and/or starches that would aid in identifying foods cooked using the vessels.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Chad Yost.

Two grinding stones from northern Chile were washed for phytolith and starch remains. The washes were conducted in Chile and the resulting residue was dried and sent to PaleoResearch Institute for analysis. The goal of the analysis was to identify plant opal phytoliths and starch grains that may be derived from plant material processed with these tools.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings. Peter Kováčik.

A rock ring midden site, LA 178961, is situated on a small bench overlooking Boyds Canyon and Spring Draw, within the foothills west of Carlsbad in Eddy County, New Mexico. Three of four deflated ring middens noted at this site have been impacted by a two track road and rancher water line (Rebecca Hill, personal communication July 8, 2014). Three soil samples, collected from two different features, were submitted for phytolith, starch, and macrofloral analysis. Although pollen analysis was not...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Chad Yost.

Soil from one of three dug pit features at the Armstrong Bay Pit site (21SL1134) was submitted for phytolith and starch grain analysis. The site is located on the south shore of Armstrong Bay at the east end of Lake Vermilion, St. Louis County, Minnesota. No cultural materials were recovered at this site; however, it is suspected that these pits were historic Ojibwe food storage pits (David Radford, personal communication, April, 2012). Phytolith and starch grain analysis of fill from one of the...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings. Ann Magennis.

Diet often is reconstructed based on indirect evidence. Tooth tartar traps food particles, preserving a record of food consumed. Dental calculus removed from primary and secondary burials at Kichpanha was examined to identify imbedded phytoliths, starch granules, and debris as indicators of diet. The purpose of this study is to determine whether phytoliths and starch granules are preserved and recoverable from human dental calculus, to establish appropriate methods for this recovery and to...

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

Sediment samples from the Beebe Springs site, 45CH216, were submitted for phytolith, starch, macrofloral, and organic reside (FTIR) analysis. This site is located on the west bank of the Columbia River (Lake Entiat Reservoir), in Chelan County, Washington. This site is a multicomponent site with substantial artifact density. Three prehistoric occupation surfaces have been identified. Mt. Mazama sediments provide a lower-limit date of ca. 6,800 years B.P. Analysis of sediment samples associated...

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

The Valentine Cache #3 Site (05-01-53-377), located in southwestern Los Angeles County, California, consists of five granitic stone circular features. These features are believed to be associated with caching activities, possibly acorn harvesting. Two soil samples from the center of one of the rock ring features (Feature B, Quadrant 2) were submitted for phytolith, starch, and macrofloral analyses to identify plants associated with function, type, and method of construction for these features,...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings. Jammi L. Ladwig. Melissa K. Logan.

A nearly complete Shoshone Intermountain Ware flat-bottomed jar from site 10TF2130, located in the Auger Falls locality along the Snake River in Twin Falls, Idaho, was inverted on a large Bonneville Flood boulder supported by two natural rock spalls and a large percussion flake. A polished stone was noted downhill from the vessel beneath a boulder. Four small interior pottery sherd fragments exfoliated from this vessel were submitted for AMS radiocarbon dating and phytolith, starch, and organic...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings.

The Unami Creek Open Site, 36BU0445, is situated along Unami Creek in Bucks County, southeastern Pennsylvania. Originally, the site was thought to exhibit evidence of Late Archaic to Early Woodland (3700–2600 BP), Middle Woodland (2000–1700 BP), and Late woodland (1300–465 BP) occupation. Over 5,000 lithic artifacts were recovered, including Fox Creek and Late Woodland triangular projectile points. In addition, a late Woodland radiocarbon date (510–400 BP) was obtained. Fifteen flaked lithics...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings. Caitlin A. Clark.

Midland Site #8 (20MD38), is a multi-component prehistoric site located in Chippewassee Park, Midland County, Michigan. The site was originally situated on stratified floodplain alluvium near the confluence of the Chippewa and Tittabawasee Rivers. In the 1970s, the city of Midland built Chippewassee Park and buried the site under a gravel parking lot and cleared grassy area (Kevin Schwarz, personal communication, November 12, 2018). Current archaeological investigations were conducted by ASC...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings. Caitlin A. Clark.

Located in Buck County, Pennsylvania, the Split Site (36BU0449) is situated in a diabase boulder field, perched above extensive wetlands draining into Ridge Valley Creek. The site is divided into eastern and western halves by the Pennsylvania Turnpike Northeast Extension, which destroyed portions of the archaeological site during construction in the 1950s (Joel Dworsky, personal communication, November 5, 2019). The eastern half (Split Site East) produced a high volume of archaeological...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Chad Yost.

A large basalt mortar was submitted for phytolith, starch, and protein residue analyses from site 45DO917. This is a pre-contact site located on Lower Moses Coulee near Wenatchee, Washington. The goal of these analyses is to identify plant and animal resources that may have been processed using this mortar.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Chad Yost.

Two mauls from two different Besant-aged bison kill sites (EjPk-3 and EgPn-111, southern Alberta, Canada) were submitted for protein residue, phytolith and starch grain analysis. The goal of these analyses is to recover and detect plant and animal remains that may be present on the surface of these tools. Such evidence would provide information useful in determining the function of these tools.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Chad Yost. Kathryn Puseman.

Bifaces and tools from the Medhold Site, 45PI728, in western Washington were submitted for protein residue analysis. This analysis was used to detect plant and animal residues that might have been preserved within the microscopic crevasses on the working surfaces of these tools. Four of the cobble tools and an expedient tool also were analyzed for phytoliths and starches. Some plants produce opal silica phytoliths that are unique to those plants and/or specific plant parts. Starch grains can be...

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

The Lake Shetek Campground Site 3 (21MU54) in Lake Shetek State Park, southwest Minnesota is a multicomponent Plains Village, Woodland, and Archaic site. A single feature from this site was the object of intensive study to place this feature in time and identify its function. A piece of fire-cracked rock from the fill of a fire-cracked rock feature was examined for phytoliths, starches, and organic residues, the latter using Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy (FTIR), to determine plant...

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

A ceramic rim sherd and two bone fragments from the Ne’hu-lat-poe Village, site 10IH3337, in the Nez Perce National Forest in Idaho County, Idaho, were submitted for AMS radiocarbon dating. This multicomponent site is one of five ancient Nez Perce villages found in the area. Phytolith, starch, and organic residue analyses also were performed on the ceramic rim sherd. The sherd was tested for organic residues using Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy (FTIR). Phytolith, starch, and organic...