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POLLEN, PARASITE, PHYTOLITH, STARCH, MACROFLORAL AND DIATOM ANALYSIS OF SOIL SAMPLES FROM A TRANSBAY BURIAL, SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA (2014)

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...