Macrofloral Analysis (Other Keyword)

DOCUMENT Full-Text Kathryn Puseman.

Eight sediment samples from sites GC-1 , GC-10, and GC-34, Bolivia, were examined for macrofloral remains.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Kathryn Puseman. Cynthia Adkins.

A total of 15 floated light fractions from sites SW 431.54 (LA138977), SW 431.59 (LA138982) and SW 431.60 (LA138983) on the Lee Ranch Mine in northwest New Mexico were examined for macrofloral remains. These samples represent a Late Archaic/Basketmaker midden area in front of a rockshelter and two thermal features (431.54), a historic ash dump/midden area with associated thermal features (431.59), and a Middle Archaic San Jose thermal feature (431.60). Macrofloral analysis is used to provide...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Kathryn Puseman.

Soil samples from SW 431.44 (LA121773), SW 431.46 (LA121775), SW 431.119 (LA120595), and SW 165-301 (LA65403) on the Lee Ranch Mine in McKinley County, New Mexico, were floated to recover macrofloral remains. These sites represent limited use areas consisting mainly of artifact scatters with a few subsurface features. Macrofloral analysis can provide information concerning diet, past subsistence activities, seasonality of occupation, feature function, site function, site occupation...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Kathryn Puseman.

Six samples from various levels of fill in two units at Swordfish Cave (CA-SBA-503) on Vandenberg Air Force Base, California, were floated to recover macrofloral remains. This site represents a cave in a small sandstone outcrop with rock art panels both inside and outside the cave. A swordfish painted in black on top of a red oval is noted to be typical of chumash illustrations. This cave experienced several use episodes during the late and terminal Early Period and the beginning of the...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Kathryn Puseman.

A single sample from a possible midden deposit near the center of the "Stampfli Site" in Plumas County, northern California, was examined for macrofloral remains. This site is located in the southern portion of Indian Valley, which was previously marshy. Today, the valley floor has been selectively dried by channeling water for farming and ranching, while the margins have been developed for rural residences. Macrofloral analysis is used to provide information concerning plant resources that...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Kathryn Puseman. Jaime Dexter.

The Aliso Junction Earth Oven Site (FS No. 05-01-55-159), located on a creek terrace at the junction of Aliso Creek and a seasonal unnamed creek, is situated in Aliso Canyon in the San Gabriel Mountains of Southern California. The site is thought to have been inhabited at the time of historic contact by the Tatavium, a little known Native California culture group who probably spoke a Serran language of the Takic branch of Northern Uto-Axtecan linguistic family. The site consists of three...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Kathryn Puseman. Jaime Dexter.

Three flotation samples and twelve botanic samples were examined from the Comb Wash Great House, site 42Sa24756, in southeast Utah. This post-Chaco era house was built like other Pueblo III pueblos; however, it has a prominent location surrounded by a community of small sites like other Chacoan great houses. Macrofloral and botanic samples were recovered from a room in the Great House (Feature 14) filled with a large, complex trash deposit/midden. These samples will be compared with...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Kathryn Puseman. Linda Scott Cummings.

Samples from excavation units at the Combar Road sites (CA-SBA-756, -757, and 772) on Vandenberg Air Force Base, California, were floated to recover macrofloral remains. Individual botanic samples from sites CA-SBA-755 and CA-SBA-756 also were submitted for identification. The Combar Road sites are located on a ridgeline within a mile of the coast and are believed to date to the early Holocene. Macrofloral analysis is used to provide information concerning plant resources utilized by the...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Kathryn Puseman.

Samples from various features at the late nineteenth/early twentieth century Lambert farmstead site in Mountainburg, Crawford County, Arkansas, were examined for macrofloral remains. This site was occupied by the Lambert family from roughly the 1930s to the 1940s. Features at the site include a three-room main house, a smaller "guest house", a possible smoker/evaporator, a shed/kitchen annex, a root cellar/barn, an animal pen, a stone table/well, a privy, a trash pit, a sheet midden, and...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Kathryn Puseman. Jaime Dexter.

The floated light and heavy fractions from two test unit levels in a midden at the Leake site, 9BR663, in Cartersville, Georgia, were submitted for identification of macrofloral remains. This site represents a large Middle Woodland ceremonial mound center dating from about 390 BC to 650 AD. Macrofloral analysis is used to provide information concerning plant resources utilized by the Middle Woodland occupants of this site. Additional pollen and macrofloral samples from this site are...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Kathryn Puseman.

Eight samples from site 24YE353 on the Yellowstone River in Yellowstone National Park, Montana, were floated to recover charred macrofloral remains. These samples represent three basin-shaped hearths and two concentrations of fire-cracked rock surrounded by flat river cobbles found on a living surface. Lithic artifacts were found from 0 to 40 cm below the surface, and Avonlea (A.D. 250-1000), Pelican Lake (1000 B.C. to A.D. 200), and McKean (3500-1000 B.C.) points were mixed throughout the...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Kathryn Puseman. Jaime Dexter.

Samples from a shallow living surface and a storage cist at the Plain View Site, 42Ws1809, were analyzed for macrofloral remains. This site represents a late Pueblo I period site in Washington County, southwest Utah, based on ceramic and radiocarbon dating. The site appears to have experienced at least two occupation episodes. Macrofloral analysis is used to provide subsistence information concerning plant resources utilized by the site occupants.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Kathryn Puseman.

Fill from the west half of a hearth in a Ute wickiup at the Rifle Wickiup Village, site 5GF308, was floated to recover charred macrofloral remains that would indicate plant resources processed in the hearth. A wood fragment believed to represent a fuel source also was submitted for identification. Site 5GF308 is located northeast of Rifle, Colorado. This site is reported to contain more than 60 structures, most of which are the remains of Ute wickiups.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Kathryn Puseman.

A total of eight macrofloral samples were recovered from seven possible features at the Rogers Archaeological Site near Sherburne, New York. Radiocarbon dates suggest Early to Late Woodland occupations. Macrofloral analysis is used to provide subsistence information concerning plant resources utilized by the various occupants of this site.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Cynthia Adkins. Linda Scott Cummings.

Site CA-SBA-1119 is located on an alluvial terrace adjacent to Honda Creek, approximately 300 meters from the Pacific Ocean on South Vandenberg Air Force Base. A total of six samples were sent for identification and analysis. The flotation samples were taken from three occupation surfaces, which have been designated Feature 1, Feature 2, and Feature 3. Macrobotanical analysis could provide an assessment of plant resources used during each of the three occupations, provided these surfaces...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Cynthia Adkins. Linda Scott Cummings.

A total of 13 macrofloral soil samples and 2 previously 1/8 inch-screened macrofloral samples were collected from Site CA-SBA-223/H, which is a multicomponent prehistoric and historic site located on the coast of North Vandenberg Air Force Base, CA. All samples were recovered from units testing the prehistoric component. Twelve soil samples were collected from undifferentiated (i.e., non-feature) site matrix from TEUs 1-6. One soil sample and two 1/8 inch screened samples were collected...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Cynthia Adkins.

A total of three samples were sent for macrofloral analysis and identification from site CA-SBA-60. Site CA-SBA-60 lies along the northern fringe of the Goleta Slough, west of Santa Barbara, CA. This multicomponent prehistoric and historic site is believed to be the historic Chumash village of S'axpilil. The three samples from CA-SBA-60 were collected from a bank exposure along Las Vegas Creek, where intact site deposits are capped with approximately 0.8 meters of disturbed fill. The...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Elizabeth Hickey.

Five soil samples from site LA 159158 in the Loco Hills region of New Mexico were submitted for macrofloral analysis. The samples were excavated as part of an oil spill remediation project at Well Site RJ Unit 123 located on Bureau of Land Management land. Macrofloral analysis will be used to provide information concerning plant resources utilized by the prehistoric occupants of the area.

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

A total of 283 botanic samples were submitted for analysis from 21 sites located in Yellowhouse Draw and Yellowhouse Canyon, Lubbock, Texas. The area is geologically stratified with five primary strata, four buried substrata, and one surface soil. Samples were recovered from stratigraphic sediments, although the sampling method is not known. It is generally accepted that for plant remains from prehistoric archaeological sites or stratigraphic deposits to be preserved, they must be carbonized....

DOCUMENT Full-Text Cynthia Adkins. Kathryn Puseman.

Five macrofloral samples and one wood charcoal sample were analyzed from sites Ca-Lan-653, Ca-Lan-3452, and Ca-Lan-3454 located along the southern boundary of Edwards Air Force Base, Los Angeles County, California. These archaeological sites appear to date to the first millennium A.D. The five macrofloral samples are associated with cultural deposits. A single charcoal sample was recovered from a shallow basin-shaped concentration of charcoal. Macrofloral analysis is used to identify...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Cynthia Adkins. Linda Scott Cummings.

Five samples from the fill of two roasting pits at the Mega site, AZ 88:9:375 (ASM), in Pima County, Arizona, were examined for macrofloral remains. The two roasting pits are visible on the site surface, which is covered with a light scatter of ceramic and lithic artifacts. Macrofloral analysis is used to provide information on use of plant resources by the site occupants, in order to help address research questions concerning social and economic organization.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Curtis Nepstad-Thornberry.

A macrobotanical sample from site LA128608 was sent for analysis and identification. The site is an isolated hearth located near Loco Hills, New Mexico. The upper portion of the feature has likely been destroyed by road construction and subsequent vehicle traffic. Archaeologists sampled the entire hearth, which resulted in a sample encompassing 25 liters. A C-14 sample, extracted from the hearth, yielded a calibrated date ranging from BP 4,410 to 3,975. Depending on sample size, level of...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Cynthia Adkins.

One macrofloral sample was received from Pacific Legacy, Inc. for flotation and analysis. The sample was recovered from a possible hearth feature at a depth of 73-83 cmbs, located below the lower half of a burial. The contents of a hearth are examined using macrofloral analysis because it has the potential of identifying both fuel and any plants that might have been processed.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Jenna Battillo. Linda Scott Cummings.

One sediment sample from a single-feature, earth oven site (the Fort Nugent Road site) was submitted for flotation and macrofloral analysis. This site is located in Oak Harbor, Whidbey Island, Island County, Washington in the Salish (S’Kllam) cultural area.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Peter Kováčik.

Site CA-SMA-71 (Sánchez Adobe) lies in the Sánchez Adobe Park Historic District in the City of Pacifica, San Mateo County, California. Both prehistoric and historic components are represented, including intact deposits, features and a Native American human burial (Breana Campbell, personal communication September 26, 2017). Fill from a pit feature containing fire affected rocks, shell, charcoal, and ash was submitted for macrofloral analysis to identify food and fuel related activities of site...