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DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings.

Site 42WS1220 is an open campsite located in the Saint George Basin, Washington County, Utah. The site is situated on three active dunes along the eastern side of Cottonwood Wash with Interstate 15 north-bound lanes running through it. The site produced multiple features, lithics, ground stones, and ceramics dating between the Archaic period and the Puebloan and South Pauite periods (Aaron Woods, personal communication, November 14, 2018). Two thermal feature fill sediments were submitted for...

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

Soil samples from the lower fill of a deep, slab-lined fire/roasting pit at site 5SM232 on the Uncompahgre Plateau in southwest Colorado were examined for pollen and macrofloral remains. This site is a multi-component archaeological site containing diagnostic artifacts dating from the Middle Archaic to the Protohistoric periods. Charcoal from the pit yielded a conventional radiocarbon age of 6780 ± 80 BP, indicating an Early Archaic occupation. Pollen and macrofloral analyses were conducted...

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

Site 48CR310 contains evidence of multiple occupations along the northeastern margin of the Ferris Mountains in central Wyoming. Component 1, an intensive occupation, represents a short-term bison processing camp. Component 2 represents an ephemeral occupation. Four stratigraphic samples were examined for pollen evidence of vegetation and fill from a thermal basin was examined for organic residues using Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy (FTIR). FTIR analysis provides information concerning...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings. Melissa K. Logan. R.A. Varney.

Seven fill samples from a housepit site (48NA4588) in Natrona County, Wyoming were submitted for pollen and organic residue analyses. Samples were examined for organic residues using Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy (FTIR). Analysis of pollen and organic residues are used to gain information regarding diet and food processing, as well as to identify the paleoenvironmental signal.

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

Three core samples recovered from two underwater sites (GA426 and HI178) on the outer continental shelf off the Texas coast in the Gulf of Mexico were submitted for pollen and organic residue analysis. Two of the samples were examined for organic residues using Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy (FTIR), and two were examined for pollen. Pollen and organic residue analysis will be used to determine if the core samples represent sites on land or deposition of floral remains blown to sea.

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

Twenty-one sediment samples from seven culturally modified pits excavated into lava flows in the Pohakuloa Training Area, Hawai’i were submitted for pollen and organic residue analysis. Six additional sediment samples from a Hawai’ian Petrel nesting area on Mauna Loa, located in Hawai’i Volcanoes National Park, were submitted as FTIR control samples representing modern avian activity. These samples were made available specifically to answer the need for identifying the possibility that the...

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

Four pollen/parasite samples, representing three outhouses were examined from the Connie Chambers archaeological project. These outhouses were used primarily between the 1890s and 1920s. Historic records indicate this area of Tucson was settled by working-class Mexicans in the late 19th century. Pollen and parasite analyses were conducted on these samples to examine evidence for diet and parasitic infestation.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings.

Site LA 158037, located in downtown Santa Fe, New Mexico is comprised of seven selfcontained vault privies from the 20th century (ca 1910 to 1935), which held Hispanic and Anglo waste. A total of seven coprolite samples, one from each of the seven self-contained vault privy features, were submitted for pollen and parasite analysis. The goal of the analysis was to identify foods consumed by and parasites resident in the population that used these privies.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings.

The San Jose Heinlenville-Nihonmachi Project is located in downtown San Jose on the city blocks bounded by Taylor Street, North Seventh Street, Jackson Street, and North Sixth Street. Features include several wood, ceramic, and iron sewer pipes discovered through a series of trenches placed across what once was the back of house lots. This portion of Heinlenville, known as Chinatown, was built in 1877 and occupied until 1931 when the John Heinlen Company went bankrupt. Current use of this entire...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings. Chad Yost.

Five additional samples from the Middle Trench at the Badger Hole site (34HP193) in the panhandle of Oklahoma were submitted to further evaluate the pollen and phytolith records from this site. Previously, one sample from the Badger Hole site and three from the Military Trail site were examined for pollen and phytoliths to determine the extent of preservation. The Badger Hole site is located approximately 300 m from Jake Bluff. Preliminary results from the first sample from the Badger Hole site...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings.

The Mattei Site (38BU1765) is a Late Archaic site situated on an elevated marine sand deposit in an upland area of the Atlantic coastal strand near the May River in Beaufort County, South Carolina (Daniel Elliot, personal communication, November 12, 2019). Stalling Phase pottery sherds, chert tool fragments, and multiple features were noted at the site. Sediment samples were collected from two distinct features and submitted for pollen and phytolith analysis.

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

Stratigraphic samples were collected at 6 cm intervals through deposits of an ancient playa associated with archaeological site 48PA2405. Four strata were recorded, the lowest representing an organic mat that probably represents Pleistocene deposits, an organic silty-sand-clay level that yielded a radiocarbon age of 18,570 ± 170 BP based on organics collected between pollen samples 38 and 42, followed by fine silty sand deposits, and finally soil as the uppermost stratum. Given the early...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Chad Yost. Linda Scott Cummings.

Three sediment samples were submitted for pollen and phytolith analysis from the Waxy Hadjo’s Landing Site (77BC00056), located on the Big Cypress Seminole Indian Reservation, Florida. Paired pollen and phytolith samples were collected near the edge of a tree island and off the tree island to examine the past vegetation for this area. In addition, pollen and phytolith analyses were used to recover and identify microscopic plant remains that may be derived from plants of economic importance.

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.

POLLEN AND PHYTOLITH ANALYSIS AT THE HARRIS SITE, SDI 4935, CALIFORNIA: Pollen and Phytolith analyses were conducted at the Harris Site (SDI-4935) in San Diego County, California. Stratigraphic pollen analysis was undertaken to provide information concerning past vegetation communities, as well as paleoenvironmental conditions. A single stratigraphic column was examined at 10 cm intervals to provide samples at close enough intervals for detailed interpretation of the past environment. Pollen...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings.

Stratigraphic pollen and phytolith samples were collected at the Hutton-Pinkham site at ten centimeter intervals during the summer of 1989. These stratigraphic samples were collected from the same column examined for geomorphologic data. The column was cut into a west-facing stream meander cut bank of Bonny Creek. This analysis of pollen and phytolith samples from the column is conducted as a feasibility study to determine the preservation and interpretability of the records. Both pollen and...

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 Citation Only Linda J. Scott. Rhoda O. Lewis.

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DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings.

The Hatch Site (5WL38) and Rattlesnake Shelter (5WL1856) were examined for evidence of extant prehistoric vegetation in the pollen and phytolith records. The Hatch Site (5WL38) is located in the Pawnee National Grasslands of Weld County. Deposits identified as Late Plains Woodland were noted. A single hearth yielded a radiocarbon date of 880 + 50 BP (1070 + 50 AD) . In addition, occupation zones were also noted and identified as Late Plains Woodland. Pollen samples were examined from the hearth...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings.

Thirty-one phytolith samples and two pollen samples were examined from 41CW54, reported in 99-60. Eighteen of these samples represent stratigraphic deposits that included four occupations. One sample was collected off-site as a control sample, and the remaining twelve samples were collected from sediments associated with tools, including gouges, flakes, and points, or from a paleochannel. Radiocarbon ages from the paleochannel range from 7560 ± 100 BP to 6650 ± 40 BP. The two pollen samples...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings.

A former agricultural field system identified on the outskirts of Picuris Pueblo contains many terraces, grids, and other rock alignments. Some features may have been constructed as early as the thirteenth century CE. Ceramics recovered suggest most of the area investigated was used between 1500 and 1700 CE. One sediment sample was collected from ashy deposits immediately below a circular platform of thermally altered rocks, suggesting use as a thermal feature. Dozens of features of similar...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings.

A former agricultural field system identified on the outskirts of Picuris Pueblo contains many terraces, grids, and other rock alignments. Some features may have been constructed as early as the thirteenth century CE. Ceramics recovered suggest most of the area investigated was used between 1500 and 1700 CE. One sediment sample was collected from ashy deposits immediately below a circular platform of thermally altered rocks, suggesting use as a thermal feature. Dozens of features of similar...

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

Pollen analysis was undertaken on samples from four archaeological sites (34HP70, 34HP76, 34HP131, and 34HP138) in the panhandle of northwest Oklahoma. A piece of groundstone and a soil control sample were examined at 34HP70 to determine what, if any, plants were ground using this tool. At site 34HP76 the floor of a pit was examined to identify possible use of the pit. A hearth at 34HP131 was examined to identify economic activity associated with this feature. Finally, at 34HP138 several...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings.

Pollen and phytolith samples were examined from a variety of vegetation communities to examine the pollen and phytolith records representing these different vegetation communities. Previous pollen and phytolith analyses of samples from archaeological sites at Yellowstone have yielded a pollen record dominated by Pinus pollen that appears to obscure evidence of movement of other pollen types within the record. This study was designed to examine the pollen record in both the standard manner, then...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings.

Site 48YE449 and 48YE454 are located at the mouth of Arnica Creek, which flows into the northern portion of West Thumb, Yellowstone Lake. Site 48YE1, the Fishing Bridge Site, is located along the Yellowstone River at the north edge of Yellowstone Lake. Both buried and surface fired rock features were noted and sampled for pollen and phytolith analysis from 48YE449. These features are presently located within a meadow along the lake shore. Pollen and phytolith analysis were undertaken to...