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DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings. Kathryn Puseman. Cynthia Adkins.

A soil column at site 42GR3164 in the Professor Valley Ranch, southeast Utah, was sampled for pollen and macrofloral remains. The soil column was placed in an area that is believed to have been the location where a large comer-notched knife made of gray chert was previously found by workers installing an irrigation pipe in a hayfield, and it appeared to be at the edge of prehistoric site 42GR3164, which had been recorded at an earlier date. The irrigation pipe trench was re-opened, and a...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Kathryn Puseman. Linda Scott Cummings. Chad Yost.

Sites 42Ka4478 and 42Ka6293 are prehistoric Virgin Anasazi occupations located north of Kanab, Utah, and east of Kanab Creek. Radiocarbon dates of 1570 ± 40 BP and 1670 ± 40 BP from 42Ka4478 reflect a Basketmaker occupation, while the presence of decorated ceramics and radiocarbon dates from corn cobs of 1340 ± 40 BP and 1170 ± 40 BP at 42Ka6293 indicate a Pueblo I association. Samples from features at sites 42Ka4478 and 42Ka6293 were examined for pollen and/or macrofloral remains to provide...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings. Kathryn Puseman. Melissa K. Logan. Chad Yost.

Column samples from site CA-SDI-10690 at Camp Pendleton in San Diego County, California, were submitted for macrofloral analysis. Protein residue, organic residue (FTIR) and pollen analyses were conducted on three stone tools, and pollen control samples were examined from the four corners of the site. This site represents a lithic and tool scatter associated with a Luiseño occupation. The goal of these analyses was to identify plant and animal remains useful in interpreting subsistence and...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Kathryn Puseman. Linda Scott Cummings. Melissa K. Logan. Chad Yost.

This Fremont residential site (42EM53) is situated on a ridge top west of Muddy Creek in Castle Valley, a broad valley with a highly varied topography. Samples from activity area fill, hearths, a pit structure, and a storage pit were examined for pollen and macrofloral remains. A fire-cracked rock from the fill of a hearth and a grinding stone from one of the activity areas were examined for organic residues using Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy (FTIR). A side scraper from the activity...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings. Jennifer L.B. Milligan.

The Stateline Solar Farm (SSF) Project Area, located in the Mojave’s Desert’s Ivanpah Valley, San Bernardino County, California, occupies a predominately flat area between several mountain ranges. Lakebed and alluvial fans dating through the Pleistocene as well as a Precambrian outcrop comprise the 6,487 acres encompassed by the project area (Hannah Hicok, personal communication May 6, 2015). During construction monitoring archaeologists located four possible hearths (STM-034, STM-036, STM-040,...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Peter Kováčik. Linda Scott Cummings.

The Sargent Street Site lies within a 1.3 acre block in Cohoes, Albany County, New York. Trenches excavated in the northern portion of the block exposed various historic deposits, including a wood-lined privy (Adam Luscier, personal communication January 19, 2018). The night soil situated below an approximately 30 cm thick layer of coal was sampled for pollen, parasite, and macrofloral analysis. Macrofloral and pollen analysis identify plant foods consumption and trash disposal during mid- to...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Kathryn Puseman. Linda Scott Cummings.

Fill from three historic privies in Oakland, California, were examined for pollen, parasites, and macrofloral remains. This portion of Oakland was mostly a middle class, suburban neighborhood at the time of deposition. Features 17 and 40 are believed to have been used by German families and to date to ca. 1875. Feature 1 is a privy of unknown affiliation and is believed to date to the 1860s. Pollen and macrofloral analysis will be used to identify dietary and nondietary plant remains in the...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings.

La Alberca Rockshelter is a highland cliff painting site located in the Tancítaro volcanic range foothills, Michoacan, Mexico. The site exhibits Mesoamerican motifs on the primary rock panel, while Archaic motifs are distributed throughout the cliff walls. Excavations at the rockshelter recovered obsidian flakes, an obsidian arrowhead, a smoothing or polishing rock, faunal remains, and a human skeleton. The burial included grave goods, and upon further excavation, it appears to have been...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Chad Yost. Linda Scott Cummings.

Site 12GR1783 is a multiple component site located in Greene County, Indiana, that spans Late Woodland to at least Late Prehistoric cultural periods. Feature fill sediment samples and lithic tools from site 12GR1783 were submitted for pollen, phytolith, starch and protein residue analysis to better understand plant and animal resources that were utilized by the occupants of this site.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Chad Yost. Linda Scott Cummings.

Pernil Alto is located on the Rio Grande in an arid coastal desert in Southern Peru. Water is supplied by rivers from the Andes. Ten pieces of groundstone that included mortars and a single stone bowl fragment were washed and the resulting particles were submitted to PaleoResearch Institute for analysis to determine what plants were ground using these tools.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings. Chad Yost. Barbara Winsborough.

Three sediment samples were selected for preliminary pollen, phytolith, and diatom analysis from a 885 cm-deep core collected from glacial maximum-age sediments deposited in Devil’s Lake in the Baraboo Hills of south-central Wisconsin. This analysis was designed to assess the quality of the proxy data before the continuation of analyses of additional samples. Upon completion of this analysis and based on recovery of significant quantities of microscopic charcoal in the pollen samples, four...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Kathryn Puseman. Linda Scott Cummings. Chad Yost.

Samples from rooms and midden areas at Frank’s Pueblo, site LA 9032, were examined for pollen and/or macrofloral remains. This site is part of the Salinas Pueblo District in central New Mexico and is one of several small, plaza-oriented, aggregated masonry pueblos on the Chupadera Mesa that formed in the late AD 1200s. These early pueblos date to the Glaze A period, which refers both to the time period of occupation (AD 1200–1350) and the presence of Rio Grande Glaze A pottery sherds (Rautman...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings. Chad Yost. Kathryn Puseman.

Site 41DL436 lies in a floodplain of Fish Creek in Dallas County, Texas. Pollen and phytolith samples were collected stratigraphically from a column at this site as a feasibility study to examine preservation of these proxy data records. Four samples were examined for macrofloral remains to recover charred material for AMS radiocarbon dating. Charcoal from features in other areas of the site yielded radiocarbon dates from 110 BP to 1090 BP. Four AMS radiocarbon dates were obtained from various...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings. Kathryn Puseman. Chad Yost.

Fill samples from a house cellar, a stone-lined privy, a wood-lined privy, and a dog burial at site 13DB575 in northeast Iowa were examined for pollen, phytoliths, and macrofloral remains. Parasite analysis also was undertaken on the privy fill samples. Wood from an entry step into the house cellar and from the wood lining and floor of the privy were submitted for identification. In addition, a single sample, examined for pollen and phytoliths, was recovered from an area believed to represent...

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

Sky Aerie Promontory (5RB104) and the Rimrock Hamlet Promontory (5RB2792) are Fremont sites located on the Douglas Creek Arch near Rangely in northwestern Colorado. Radiocarbon ages indicate the sites were occupied between the late AD 800s through AD 1005. Pollen, phytolith, starch granule, and macrofloral analyses were undertaken to identify elements of the subsistence base at these sites.

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

Ceramic sherds from a single vessel were submitted for pollen, phytolith and organic residue analysis, along with mammal bone fragments for AMS radiocarbon dating. The ceramic sherds were tested for organic reside using Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy (FTIR) to determine materials the vessel contained.

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

Fill from two features from site LA 159599, Eddy County, New Mexico were submitted for pollen, phytolith, and organic residue analysis. Samples were tested for organic residues using Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy (FTIR). A soil control sample recovered from the ground surface was also submitted for pollen analysis.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings. Paul M. Miller.

The Fort Argyle Site (9BN28) is situated upon a bluff on the west bank of the Ogeechee River on the eastern margin of the modern Fort Stewart US Army Reservation in Bryan County, Georgia. The site contains the historical Fort Argyle, which was an important early colonial outpost (AD 1733–1767). Eleven sediment samples collected primarily from palisade trenches were submitted for pollen and phytolith analysis in conjunction with Phase III archaeological work. In addition, individual samples...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings.

The Camp Pendleton Basewide Water Infrastructure Improvements Project yielded flaked stone and ground stone tools for analysis to assess their use. Tools were collected from three sites (CA-SDI-21271, CA-SDI-21282, and CA-SDI-21517). Protein residue analysis addresses evidence of proteins from animals and a few plants, while pollen, phytolith, and starch analysis targeted use of plants (pollen) including grasses (phytoliths) and seeds and underground storage organs (starch).

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings. Jennifer L.B. Milligan.

The Black Hank Site (24RB2339) consists of a large prehistoric camp along with minimal historic remains in the vicinity of possible foundation stones. The site occupies an irregular area spanning a high terrace and low bench southwest of the confluence of an unnamed ephemeral stream and Black Hank Creek in Rosebud County, Montana. Prehistoric cultural materials at the site include lithics, scattered pieces of oxidized sandstone, and possible fire cracked rock (FCR). Brown glass and a .22 short...

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

Artifacts from eight sites in the 4S Ranch Project in San Diego County, southern California were analyzed for pollen, phytoliths, or protein residues. Column samples also were floated to recover charred macrofloral remains. The project area is located on the first range of hills rising above the Pacific Ocean and contains over 20 archaeological sites. Soil samples from these sites yielded uncalibrated conventional radiocarbon dates ranging from 7400 + 140 BP to 300 + 60 BP. The project area...

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

Samples collected as part of the Waikiki 88 AIS AMC Ewa Expansion project in Honolulu. Six samples were examined using resistivity to determine whether or not they represented salt pans. Five samples were examined for pollen and one was examined for phytoliths to identify local vegetation and use of the areas tested.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings.

The San Joaquin River Pergola Site, located in northern Fresno County, includes three artifact concentrations, a diffuse artifact scatter, and an area of displaced artifacts. The site is situated atop a stabilized, well-sorted sand dune that does not exhibit stratigraphy. Groundstone, comprising metates, mortars, nether or lapstones, handstones (manos and pestles), and hammerstones were recovered. Six pieces of groundstone were submitted for pollen and starch or phytolith and starch analysis to...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings. Chad Yost.

A total of seven ground stone wash samples were submitted for pollen, starch, and phytolith analysis from sites NLIP 45 and NLIP 44, located near Sacramento, California. Washes of the artifacts were conducted by the staff of AECOM and then submitted to PRI for laboratory analysis. The goal of this study is to identify plant remains from the working surfaces of these tools that may provide data useful in assessing tool function and resource availability.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings. Paul M. Miller.

Midnight Terror Cave lies in the Cayo District, ca. 16 km southwest of Belmopan, in central Belize. Studies of the cave by California State University, Los Angeles, in association with the Belizean Institute of Archaeology, revealed eight naturally divided sections (called ‘Operations’). Significant quantities (more than 10,000 bones and bone fragments) of calcified human remains from the Late Classic period (AD 600–900) lay on the surface of the cave floor (Prout and Brady 2018:3). Operations V...