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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. Kathryn Puseman. Jaime Dexter.

Two prehistoric ceramic rim sherds, a soil sample, and a single projectile point/knife were recovered during Phase III archaeological data recovery at the Appomattox Manor dwelling house in the City Point Unit of Petersburg National Battlefield in Hopewell, Virginia. This area is part of a large, multicomponent site. The majority of the ceramic sherds found on a possible living floor/midden (Feature 4) are believed to be associated with the Varina Netimpressed variety, which dates to the...

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. R.A. Varney.

Companion pollen and phytolith samples were examined from eight samples representing five Individual sites In Great Sand Dunes National Monument, Colorado. These samples all represent fill from charcoaI stains, possible hearths, basin-shaped hearths, or deflated hearths. The objective in collecting and analyzing these samples was to obtain information concerning the plants that the occupants of these sites chose to cook in these features. It is also a fact that fill samples record evidence...

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

Stratigraphic samples were examined from sites 23Ck302 and 23Le174 on the Avenue of the Saints project in northeastern Missouri. In addition, cultural samples from both sites were examined for pollen.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings.

A single stratigraphic column through sediments at the MacHaffie Site (24JF4) yielded both pollen and phytolith samples. Pollen and phytolith analyses were conducted for each stratum to identify elements of the local vegetation for description of both local vegetation and paleoenvironmental conditions at this site through out the approximately 9,400 years represented.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings.

Samples were examined from Charles Towne Landing State Historic Site, the first permanent English settlement of the Colony Carolina. It was occupied between 1670 and 1680. Soil recovered from a trench feature in a possible small, seventeenth century vineyard was submitted for analysis. Documents indicate small grape arbors adjacent to houses in the area. Occupants grew experimental crops to determine what, if anything, would grow well in Carolina. Crops attempted include indigo, tobacco,...

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

Seven sediment samples from features at site 10775-175 on U.S. Highway 491 DR North were examined for pollen and phytoliths. This site is a multi component site with occupations ranging from the Late Archaic to the Pueblo II. Pollen and phytolith samples were examined to provide information concerning use of the features, as well as some paleoenvironmental information.

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

Site 41KR621 is located within the boundaries of a proposed right-of-way extension along Spur 98 in Kerrville, Texas. Situated on the southern approach of Spur 98 to the Guadalupe River, this multi-component, Mid to Late Holocene prehistoric site covers the entire highway right-of-way from the base of an upland toeslope at the southern terminus to the scarp of a terrace above the river. Soil matrix samples from several features at the site were examined for pollen and phytoliths, as were...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings.

Located in south Texas, site 41MV164 is situated near the western edge of Maverick County approximately six miles east of the Rio Grande River, above an unnamed tributary of Elm Creek. The Archaic site consists of a surface scatter of fire-affected rock, chert cores and debitage. Diagnostic tools found on the surface include Ensor-like and Frio dart points, as well as a Seal/om arrow point. Cultural materials were identified in three distinct locations: buried beneath the floodplain...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings.

A single soil sample (Table 1) was collected from a buried A horizon that has been interpreted as representing the original hill surface prior to its artificial shaping. Pollen and phytolith analyses were undertaken to identify local vegetation existing on the original hill.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings.

Pollen and phytolith samples were examined from locations thought to belong to a historic garden area that was part of Fort Vancouver. Samples were examined from seven different excavation units, some of which were associated with features. This analysis focused on identifying any plants that might have been planted in the gardens and describing local vegetation.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings.

Site LA 54147 is located in Sandoval County, New Mexico, along New Mexico Highway 258 near the intersection with Idalia Road. Situated near the northeastern end of the West Mesa, it is believed to be the site of Coronado's camp, occupied between 1540 and 1542. A single pithouse feature (2004-1) and associated ceramic artifacts were identified at the site. One pollen and one phytolith sample were collected from the pithouse. Pollen and phytolith analyses are used to provide information...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings.

Holotunich, an historical site in Belize, was occupied in the late 19th to early 20th century. The San Pedro Maya, who were Caste War refuges, occupied the site between the 1860s and the 1890s. During the early 20th century, this site functioned as a British logging camp from approximately 1920 to 1945. Archival data indicates that the Maya engaged in agriculture and also occasionally worked in the logging camps. Phytolith analysis was undertaken to identify evidence of plants and search...

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

Pollen and phytolith samples were examined from site LA 457, a multi-component Jornada Mogollon village site with occupations ranging from the Late Archaic through the El Paso phase. The samples were collected during the replacement of a waterline from the La Luz Filtration Plant to the Green Reservoir in southern New Mexico because a 752 meter segment of the pipeline passed through portions of the site. Samples examined represent two pit house floors, fill from a probable Archaic hearth,...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings. Jaime Dexter.

Site 41MV145 is located approximately six miles east of the Rio-Grande near the western edge of Maverick County in south Texas. The Archaic site was originally recorded as a light surface scatter of burned rock and lithic debris. Subsequent subsurface reconnaissance was conducted, revealing cultural materials to a maximum depth of 70 cmbs, with the densest artifact concentration in the upper 30 cm. The artifact assemblage included a Clearfork biface and a Nueces biface, as well as lithic...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings.

Sixteen pollen and phytolith samples were examined from the North Family Lot Site, 33WA407, in Warren County, Ohio. The site, occupying approximately four acres, was part of a Union Village Shaker community from the beginning of the nineteenth century through the early twentieth century. Pollen and phytolith analyses were conducted to document land use within specific locations that will contribute to understanding overall land use patterns at the site.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings.

Four pollen and phytolith samples were examined from shell pits at 38CH1693. This site yielded four radiocarbon ages that indicate occupation between approximately 3720 ± 50 or 60 BP and 3930 ± 50 BP. A fifth phytolith sample was examined from a roasting pit at this site. These analyses were conducted to examine the microscopic record for prehistoric vegetation and potential uses of these pits. Whole oyster shells were recovered from all of the pits, although burned shells are reported only...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings.

Pollen and phytolith analysis of stratigraphic samples from 23CK57 form the basis for understanding the Early and Late Paleoindian eras, as well as the Late Archaic through Woodland time periods. The hiatus visible in the record appears to have removed sediments that date between approximately 8000 and 3000 RCYBP, based on original assessments of the stratigraphy at the site. Radiocarbon ages between 1380 and 1210 RCYBP are reported in the upper sediment package.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings.

Adjacent to the Valencia Road off-ramp lies the Valencia site (AZ BB:15:13[ASM]), a pre-Classic Hohokam ballcourt village encompassing a 0.5 km2 area along the eastern terraces of the Santa Cruz River, Pima County, Arizona. The village core was occupied between the Pioneer period (A.D. 475–750) and late Rincon phase (A.D. 1100–1150) of the Secondary period, with settlement components spanning the Cienega phase of the Early Agricultural period (800 B.C.–A.D. 150) through the Tanque Verde phase of...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings. Peter Kováčik. Barbara Winsborough.

The Transbay Project encompasses large portions of San Francisco’s South of Market neighborhood on the western side of San Francisco Bay. Near the bottom excavation elevation, at the interface of Marine Sands with Lower Bay Mud, an individual burial was excavated. The burial included human remains and a woven mat that lined the pit and was folded over the top of the individual’s legs (Aimee Arrigoni, personal communication April 17, 2014). From this burial four soil samples were submitted for...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings. Chad Yost.

Site 48CA959, located in the Porcupine watershed, yielded several Late Prehistoric, small diameter, cylindrical pit/oven features and at least one pit hearth. Calibrated radiocarbon ages reported for the pit/oven features range from AD 390 to AD 1000 and a corner notched Late Archaic point was found on site. Four pollen and phytolith samples were examined from a stratigraphic column to obtain a record of local vegetation from slightly prior to occupation until the present. Five of the pit/oven...

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

Soil samples from adobe-walled structures, surface rooms, pit structures, a pit house, extramural fire pits, a trash pit, and a midden at Area 6 of Pueblo Salado, Site AZ T: 12 : 47 (ASM), were examined for pollen, phytolith, and/or macrofloral remains. Four pieces of groundstone also were washed to recover phytoliths. Area 6 is believed to have been occupied for an extended period of time. Feature 20, a field house, is thought to date to the late Sacaton or early Soho phase, and...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Kathryn Puseman. Linda Scott Cummings.

A single bulk soil sample from midden deposits in a trench profile on the Senior Housing Project portion of site CA-MNT-831 in Pacific Grove, Monterey County, California, was analyzed for pollen, phytoliths, and macrofloral remains. This site is currently the oldest known site on the Monterey Peninsula, with occupation primarily during Phase I of the Early Period. Many of the radiocarbon dates from this site fall between 5550-5770 years BP (Breschini and Haversat 2006:1). Pollen, phytolith,...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings.

Five samples that included three pieces of groundstone, recovered from the buried surface of Stratum MV-7 in Area DW at Monte Verde II, dated to approximately 12,500 BP, were examined for pollen, phytoliths, and starch. Sediment also was collected from an ash/charcoal stain across the creek at Monte Verde I. It also was removed from Stratum MV-7, but was more deeply buried (1.3 m). A sample also was collected from a buried use surface in a ridged agricultural field at PaiCavi and was examined...