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

Five stratigraphic sediment samples from two locations at the Blacklog Narrows, Aughwick Watershed, Cromwell Township, Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania were submitted for pollen and phytolith analysis to help determine vegetation and climate change. The older deposits represent Pleistocene deposits more than 29,000 radiocarbon years old, while the younger set represents Holocene deposits.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings.

Five combination pollen and phytolith samples were examined from five features at the Jervey Plantation (38CH927) and the Yaughal Plantation (38CH932) to identify crops that might have been grown at these sites. Historic studies of plantations in this area focus on recovery of indigo and upland swamp rice for early occupations and cotton for nineteenth century occupations. The builder's trench of the main plantation house was examined at the Jervey Plantation. Various features, including a...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings. Margaret E. Newman.

POLLEN AND PHYTOLITH ANALYSIS FROM SDI-7197, THE SALT CREEK I PROJECT, CALIFORNIA: Pollen and phytolith analysis was conducted on groundstone and flaked stone tools from this site in an effort to define the plants that were processed with these tools. BLOOD RESIDUE ANALYSIS OF ARTIFACTS FROM SITE SDI-7197 CALIFORNIA: The primary objective of this analysis was to determine if information derived by the analysis of blood residues retained on lithic artifacts could provide further...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings.

An Ovis (sheep) coprolite recovered from Eagle Cave in Val Verde County, Texas, was submitted for pollen and phytolith analysis.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings.

The Acer Fergii Site, 48CA3227, Campbell County, Wyoming, located a few kilometers north of Antelope Creek, is a Late Plains Archaic and Late Prehistoric campsite. Loam and clay sediments give way to exposed and weathered shales across parts of the site. Local vegetation includes sparse sagebrush, short prairie grasses, and prickly pear cactus. Acer Fergii Site investigations included 25 block excavations, totaling 192 square meters, which identified hearths, lithic debitage and tools, cobble...

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.

Pollen and phytolith samples were examined from an organic stain at 41RN169 in Runnels County, Texas in an effort to identify the origin of the stain. Control samples from unstained matrix were also examined for both pollen and phytoliths to establish a record with which to compare the data obtained from examination of the stain.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings. Chad Yost.

Site 15OH161, an east-facing sandstone rockshelter site in Ohio County, western Kentucky, yielded evidence of multiple occupations. While only the Archaic and Early to Middle Woodland occupations were sampled for pollen analysis and radiocarbon dates reported for features from this site range from 6050 ± 40 BP to 4230 ± 40 BP, there is also a Late Woodland/Mississippian component. Only the Archaic components were in good context, therefore. Considerable disturbance as a result of human looting...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings. Chad Yost.

Fort Center, located in Glades County, Florida, provides evidence of Late Archaic; Early, Middle, and Late Woodland, Belle Glades, Calusa, Protohistoric, Seminole, and finally 19th and 20th century occupations. Thus, occupation at this 2.5 square km earthwork site dates between 800 BC and at least the late 1800s (Victor Thompson, personal communication, September 2010). Earlier work at this site included pollen analysis that reported consistent finds of Zea mays pollen. Verification or denial of...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings. Chad Yost.

Fort Center, located in Glades County, Florida, provides evidence of Late Archaic; Early, Middle, and Late Woodland, Belle Glades, Calusa, Protohistoric, Seminole, and finally 19th and 20th century occupations. Thus, occupation at this 2.5 square km earthwork site dates between 800 BC and at least the late 1800s (Victor Thompson, personal communication, September 2010). Earlier work at this site included pollen analysis that reported consistent finds of Zea mays pollen. Verification or denial of...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings.

Dung from locations in Arizona and Russia were submitted for pollen and phytolith analysis. Pontatoc Ridge Shelter exhibited a surface mat dating approximately 14,000 yr BP. Dung recovered from a pica nest in permafrost in association with Pleistocene-age mammals such as mammoth and rhino. Analysis of microscopic remains (pollen and phytoliths) was undertaken to identify local vegetation at the time each of these dung deposits accumulated.

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

Four samples from lightly stained basin features at Site LA 60977, New Mexico were submitted for pollen and phytolith analyses. Two of the samples, from Features 9 and 11 were analyzed for pollen and two, from Features 10 and 12, were analyzed for phytoliths. Site LA 60977, is located south of the Moriarty Airport, approximately 43 miles east of Albuquerque, New Mexico. The goal of this analysis is to identify use of the features through pollen and phytolith analyses.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Chad Yost. Linda Scott Cummings.

Groundstone tools and ceramic sherds from site 41PN175 were submitted for pollen, phytolith, and starch grain analyses. This site is a middle-late Caddoan farmstead or hamlet located in Panola County, in eastern Texas. Pollen, starch, and phytolith analyses were used to recover and identify microscopic plant remains derived from processing and cooking activities.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings.

Playa 9 is a complex of sites surrounding a tiny playa approximately 1.5 km south of Scott's village. Pollen and phytolith analysis examine hearth fill and structure floors from this area to identify evidence of subsistence activities. Occupations examined in this study range from 420 BP to 1300 BP.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings. Chad Yost.

Thirty-five samples of sediment adhering to a variety of vessels and grinding stones from the site of Gegharot in Armenia were examined for pollen and phytoliths. Samples were obtained by washing the tools in the field, then submitting the washes to PaleoResearch Institute. They were received in two shipments, allowing preliminary analysis of the first fifteen samples to assess issues of preservation prior to completing the study. Recovery of both pollen and phytoliths from the initial samples...

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

Pollen and phytolith analyses were undertaken on three samples from an off-site stratigraphic profile to provide a description of local and regional vegetation that could be interpreted to provide paleoenvironmental information. This profile was exposed in a backhoe trench located offsite, but near a Mesilla Phase archaeological site at Ft. Bliss, Texas. The trench transected five strata that appear to be a buried paleosol overlain by a recent eolian sand sheet. The paleosol consists of a...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings.

Stratigraphic sediment samples were collected at Ais Giorkis for phytolith analysis. The uppermost sample serves as a modern analog, and radiocarbon ages indicate the profile is intact (Rolfe Mandel, personal communication, January 5, 2018). Phytolith analysis was requested because isotope values show a C3 signature with little variation through time (Rolfe Mandel, personal communication, January 5, 2018). Pollen analysis was recommended by PaleoResearch Institute staff as the better measure of...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings.

Nine phytolith samples and six pollen samples were submitted for analysis from Tor al-Tareeq and Thalab al-Buhayra, Jordan as part of the Eastern Hasa Late Pleistocene Project (EHLPP). These samples represent Early Upper Paleolithic deposits along an ancient lake at Thalab al-Buhayra and Early Epipaleolithic and Neolithic occupations at Tor al-Tareeq. Pollen and phytolith analyses was undertaken to inform concerning local vegetation associated with a Pleistocene lake and a series of...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings.

Site 38CH1541, dating to the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, represents the main Mullet Hall Plantation settlement. Mullet transferred the property to James Legare, but there is little evidence of occupation postbellum. Samples from three Colonial era trash pits, two wall trenches, and four storage pits, were examined for pollen and phytoliths to inform concerning economic activities at the plantation. Site 38CH1542 includes two linear slave settlements, appearing on maps in 1854. One...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings.

The Fort Benning Data Recovery Project includes eight sites within Chattahoochee County, west-central Georgia. Sites 9CE1041 and 9CE1942 are situated in the sand hills of the Coastal Plains, near Columbus, Georgia. One sediment sample from each was submitted for pollen and phytolith analysis to ascertain environmental and cultural information from these sites.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings. Chad Yost.

Fill samples from a possible agricultural mound at site CSH 53 and a basalt mound at site CSH 62, Maui, Hawaii, were submitted for pollen and phytolith analysis. These analyses were undertaken to identify what plants were grown at the agricultural mound and identify a function for the basalt mound.

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

Combined pollen and phytolith samples were examined from three features at 32MO1374 and 32MO1375, located in Morton County, North Dakota. Site 32MO1374 is located on the bank of Otter Creek, while site 32MO1375 lies on the terrace above the creek. Pollen and phytoliths were examined to provide information concerning vegetation at the time of occupation and also identify plants processed in these features.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings.

The Palawai 9 project area is situated on Manele Bay of Lanai Island within Maui County, Hawaii. Two samples from a possible agricultural mound and a terrace of unknown function at Site T-06112013-1 were submitted for pollen and phytolith analysis. Analysis was undertaken to address use of the mound and terrace and to help determine if either represents pre-contact Hawaiian occupation.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings. Chad Yost.

Previous pollen analysis of a sample associated with a burial from site 41HY163 in south-central Texas yielded possible evidence of Zea mays pollen. Because the identification was tentative, an additional soil sample was submitted to PaleoResearch Institute for testing. Pollen and phytolith analyses were conducted for the specific purpose of finding any evidence for the presence of Zea mays or to find pollen types that might be confused with Zea mays. After completion of the pollen and phytolith...

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

Previous pollen analysis of a sample associated with a burial from site 41HY163 yielded possible evidence of Zea mays pollen. Because the identification was tentative, an additional sample was submitted to Paleo Research Institute for testing. Pollen and phytolith analyses were conducted for the specific purpose of finding any evidence for the presence of Zea mays or to find any suspicious looking remains that might be confused with Zea mays.