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DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda J. Scott.

The pollen analysis of 59 coprolites from Hoy House and Lion House in Johnson Canyon, Colorado, has yielded information concerning the diet of the Anasazi living at these sites during PIII times. Based on combined pollen and macro-floral analyses, the diet appears to be composed primarily of the cultigens Zea, Cucurbita, and Phaseolus, with heavy reliance on the possibly encouraged Cleome, and other manipulated or wild plants including the Cheno-ams, Oryzopsis, Physalis , and the Umbelliferae ....