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DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings. Kathryn Puseman.

Archaeobotanic analyses were conducted on samples from deposits at the Eagle Point Site (5RB4662), a rockshelter/overhang located along Piceance Creek in northwest Colorado. This shelter experienced multiple occupations, with radiocarbon ages ranging from 2510 to 1010 BP. The roof/overhang has collapsed; therefore, cultural deposits are exposed and eroding away. Two stratigraphic columns were sampled at close intervals during both the 2004 and 2005 excavations for the purpose of building a...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings. Kathryn Puseman. Jaime Dexter.

Sites 3CT340 and 3CT341 are part of a large site complex located in eastern Arkansas' Crittenden County. The Late Woodland/Emergent Mississippian prehistoric village sites are located in the southern portion of the project area. Although neither of the sites had large lithic assemblages, several cultural features were identified, including burials at both sites and a cremation pit at site 3CT341. Thirteen pollen samples, ten of which also were examined for parasites, were examined to...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Kathryn Puseman. Jaime Dexter.

While monitoring a trench for the installation of a fiber-optic line, Feature 1 was identified within the boundaries of site 42JB1207, located in Fish Springs National Wildlife Refuge, western Utah. This site contains both prehistoric and historic components. Feature 1 consists of a dark, charcoal stained lens and was visible on both walls of the trench. One macrofloral sample was examined from the fill of Feature 1. Charcoal from the macrofloral sample was identified and submitted for AMS...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Kathryn Puseman.

A total of 22 macrofloral samples were examined from sites 42WS447, 42WS3056, 42WS3061, 42WS3148, 42WS3149, and 42WS3150 in Washington County, Utah. Five of these sites represent shelters with occupations ranging from the Basketmaker II to Paiute. 42WS3056 has been identified as a large artifact scatter, and diagnostic artifacts recovered from the site have been associated with a mid to late Archaic cultural occupation. Macrofloral analysis was conducted in order to determine possible plant...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Kathryn Puseman.

Samples from various features at the late nineteenth/early twentieth century Lambert farmstead site in Mountainburg, Crawford County, Arkansas, were examined for macrofloral remains. This site was occupied by the Lambert family from roughly the 1930s to the 1940s. Features at the site include a three-room main house, a smaller "guest house", a possible smoker/evaporator, a shed/kitchen annex, a root cellar/barn, an animal pen, a stone table/well, a privy, a trash pit, a sheet midden, and...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Kathryn Puseman.

A total of eight macrofloral samples were recovered from seven possible features at the Rogers Archaeological Site near Sherburne, New York. Radiocarbon dates suggest Early to Late Woodland occupations. Macrofloral analysis is used to provide subsistence information concerning plant resources utilized by the various occupants of this site.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Cynthia Adkins. Linda Scott Cummings.

Site CA-SBA-1119 is located on an alluvial terrace adjacent to Honda Creek, approximately 300 meters from the Pacific Ocean on South Vandenberg Air Force Base. A total of six samples were sent for identification and analysis. The flotation samples were taken from three occupation surfaces, which have been designated Feature 1, Feature 2, and Feature 3. Macrobotanical analysis could provide an assessment of plant resources used during each of the three occupations, provided these surfaces...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Cynthia Adkins. Kathryn Puseman.

The floated light fraction of a single sample from site 39PE147, located at the Shadehill Reservoir, Perkins County, South Dakota, was examined for macrofloral remains. The sample was recovered from the fill of a large pit (Feature 1), possibly an earth oven. The entire feature fill was floated prior to submission for analysis. Macrofloral analysis is used to provide information concerning plant resources utilized by the occupants of this site and to help determine feature function.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Kathryn Puseman. Linda Scott Cummings.

Samples from features at sites CA-SBR-5568/H, CA-SBR-10073, CA-SBR-10074, CASBR-10075, CA-SBR-10078, and CA-SBR-12464 in southern California were processed for macrofloral remains and examined using Fourier Transform Infrared Spectrometry (FTIR). In addition, charcoal from CA-SBR-5568/H was submitted for AMS radiocarbon analysis. Sites CA-SBR-10073, CA-SBR-10074, and CA-SBR-10075 represent prehistoric vegetation processing and lithic reduction activity areas that appear to have been seasonally...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Kathryn Puseman. R.A. Varney.

The floated light fractions of seven samples from five sites for the Elk Hills Project in Kern County, southern California, were examined for macrofloral remains. One botanic sample aIso was sent for identification. Identification of macrofloral remains will be used to provide information concerning subsistence activities and possible seasonality, as well as to evaluate the potential for obtaining this type of information from additional macrofloral samples. Three chert flakes exhibiting...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings.

Phytolith analysis was conducted on samples from eight archaeological sites along US Highway 491 in western New Mexico. Analysis was undertaken to provide information concerning both the past environment and subsistence activities at these testing phase sites that varied in age from approximately 4490 BC until AD1670/1950.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings. Sanjay Eksambekar. Jaime Dexter.

Two prehistoric sites at the Rinker Materials Plant 225 in Green Valley, Arizona were surveyed in 1999. Rock piles were identified in both the Rinker Site (AZ EE:1:291), and the Mesquacia Site (AZ EE:1:293). Although rock piles have typically been interpreted as being associated with agricultural activities of the Hohokam, they are now proposed to be agrobiological sites. Their prime function is interpreted to be the enhancement of plant nutrition and growth relative to soil management. Ten...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings.

The Echo Spring Housepit site (48CR6979) represents an Opal phase Archaic occupation southeast of Wamsutter, Wyoming in the Washakie Basin, which lies in the southern portion of the Great Divide Basin. Two housepits and external features are located in a sand dune on the west facing slope of a 'low ridge between two draws. The two housepits are located immediately next to one another and each exhibits evidence of multiple occupations. Radiocarbon ages range from 4480 to 5670 BP and...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings.

The Houghton Road Site is located within the city limits of Tucson, Arizona immediately west of Houghton Road between Tanque Verde Road and Speedway Boulevard. It is situated on the flood plain at the convergence of the Tanque Verde and Agua Caliente washes. This Hohokam site has been archaeomagnetically dated to AD 400 to 600. Although it is a typical Hohokam site, some Mogollonlike architectural components are noted. This site includes large deep square houses, cremations and...

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.

The La Lomita site (AZ U:9:67) and the Germann site (AZ U:10:2) are large Hohokam Village sites located in modern-day Phoenix, Arizona. Both areas have undergone repeated archaeological investigations. The La Lomita site represents occupation from at least the late Santa Cruz through middle Sacaton phases, while the Germann Site dates to the late Pioneer through Classic periods. Pollen analysis at these sites is limited to five samples from the La Lomita site and two samples from the...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings.

The Phelps Dodge Dos Pobres/San Juan Data Recovery project includes numerous sites, sixteen of which were sampled for pollen. These sites are located on the lower slopes of the Gila Mountains. Most of the sites are arrayed in a northwest to southeast trending swath. The arrangement of the sites on the landscape implies an exploitation of a specific elevation range, or more specifically, a specific vegetation community associated with that elevation range. Pollen analysis identifies the...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings.

A single pollen sample collected from a pit (Feature 1) at AZ BB:6:50 (ASM), was analyzed for pollen. The site is located at an elevation of approximately 4000 feet on a bajada between Oracle and San Manuel to the northeast of Tucson. The area is heavily dissected. Pollen analysis was undertaken in an effort to define activities in the pit.

DOCUMENT Full-Text R.A. Varney.

Site 48SW13156 is a buried, open camp site, containing numerous features and stains dating to between 9430±40 and 8150±40 RCYBP. All of the features were noted in the lower portion of stratum A or the upper portion of stratum E. Two modern samples, collected from different modern vegetation communities, were analyzed as controls for the site. Eleven stratigraphic samples collected at ten centimeter intervals from a buried A horizon that overlaid the cultural A stratum 90wn through stratum K...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings.

Three archaeological sites in San Juan County, southeastern Utah, were examined for pollen to identify plants processed both at the sites and in association with specific features. Site 42Sa24852, exhibits evidence of both Basketmaker III and Pueblo II occupations. A complex habitation structure (Feature 4) contained several storage bins and a central hearth that were sampled to better understand life and food processing of people living in the structure during Basketmaker III times. The...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings.

Sites 5EP46 and 5LA10370 on the Pinon Canyon Maneuver Site were sampled for pollen to identify evidence of food or plant processing.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Kathryn Puseman. Linda Scott Cummings.

Pollen and macrofloral samples were examined from site 26Or3 for the Carson City Freeway project in Carson City, Nevada. Twenty-two pollen and twenty macrofloral samples were analyzed during Phase II testing. An additional 60 pollen and 71 macrofloral samples were examined for Phase III. Radiocarbon dates suggest eight occupation periods. The earliest occupations of the site from AD 230 to AD 410 and AD 410 to AD 620 appear to have been fairly minor periods of site use. Five features are...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings. Kathryn Puseman. Jaime Dexter.

Features from two sites, AZ U:11:41 (ASM) and AZ U:11:126 (ASM) near Florence Junction, Arizona, were sampled for pollen and macrofloral remains. Both sites were excavated as a part of the Ranch 160 Project. The sites have been identified as Late Colonial Hohokam occupations, representing Santa Cruz through Sacaton time periods. Five pollen samples were recovered from five separate features in the project area. Additionally, five bulk soil samples from the same features were floated to recover...

DOCUMENT Full-Text R.A. Varney. Kathryn Puseman.

The fill from five cultural features at site 48NA182 were examined for pollen and/or macrofloral remains. This site is a multi-occupation rockshelter and open camp located on Naval Petroleum Reserve # 3 in central Wyoming. Five macrofloral and three pollen samples were analyzed to determine paleo-environmental conditions and potential economic uses of plants at the site.

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

Samples from Mosquito Willie (42To137), located in a cold desert shrub community on the west side of the Great Salt Lake Desert approximately 15 miles south of Wendover, Utah, were examined for pollen, macrofloral remains, or charcoal to identify plants that were processed and/or used by occupants of this site. Springs east of the site provide riparian resources not available in the more xeric desert shrub community in which the site is located. Pollen, macrofloral, and charcoal analyses...