Macrofloral Analysis (Other Keyword)

DOCUMENT Full-Text Kathryn Puseman. Jaime Dexter.

Three macrofloral samples were collected from the fill of two basin-shaped pits and a large thermal feature at the Flower Hill Site 1 in Schenectady County, New York. Archaeological investigations were undertaken due to proposed subdivision construction in the town of Niskayuna. Recovery of one Lamoka-type projectile point suggests that the site represents a Late Archaic Lamoka Phase occupation of the area. Macrofloral analysis is used to provide subsistence information concerning plant...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Kathryn Puseman.

Twenty-seven samples from Phase III Excavations in the Canoe Ramp Loop Road area of the Pardee Site (36-MR-5) in Pennsylvania, were examined for macrofloral remains. Corrected radiocarbon dates and artifact types recovered suggest that this is a multicomponent site, and place use of the features at different times during the Late Archaic to the Colonial periods, approximately 3770 to 350 BP. Macrofloral analysis is used to address subsistence at this site.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Kathryn Puseman. Linda Scott Cummings.

Two samples of possible clean-out residue from an earth oven at site 35 LIN 555 were floated to recover macrofloral remains. This site is located in the Willamette Valley near Albany, Oregon. Macrofloral analysis is used to provide information concerning plants that might have been utilized, especially camas, and to help determine the function of the feature.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Peter Kováčik. Linda Scott Cummings.

The CUC Fuel Pipeline Project, located in Puerto Rico, Saipan in the Northern Mariana Islands, revealed several prehistoric features and burials. Seven bulk soil samples collected from various features were submitted for macrofloral analysis to recover and identify charred botanic remains suitable for radiocarbon analysis. Additionally, bone collagen extraction and radiocarbon date was requested on human rib fragments collected from a single prehistoric burial. Seven charred botanic samples and...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Kathryn Puseman. Chad Yost.

Fill from hearths at sites LA 117092 (FB 16244), LA 124002 (FB 8803), and LA 124024 (FB 8825) was examined to recover charcoal or other charred macrofloral material suitable for AMS radiocarbon dating, then date the features. A unifacial tool from site LA 124013 (FB 8814) was analyzed for possible protein residues to determine plant or animal resources that might have been processed using this tool. These sites are located on the Fort Bliss Military Reservation in Surveyors and El Paso Canyons,...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Peter Kováčik.

Prehistoric Sites CM-1, CM-2, CM-3, and CM-4 lie in the Western Mojave Desert subregion northwest of California City in Kern County, California. Features exposed during RE Cinco Project construction grading activities in the area yielded numerous fire-affected rocks, charcoal, and ash (Christopher Duran, personal communication June 24, 2015 and April 20, 2016). Hearth fills from each site were collected for macrofloral analysis to recover and identify plants used by site occupants. In addition,...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Kathryn Puseman.

Fill from a roasting pit at site 5LA10370 was floated to recover charred macrofloral remains. Charcoal from this sample was submitted for AMS radiocarbon dating. Charcoal from Stratum II at site 5LA11074 also was submitted for identification and AMS radiocarbon dating. These sites are located on the Piñon Canyon Maneuver Site in Las Animas County, southeast Colorado. Macrofloral analysis, including charcoal identification, will be used to provide information concerning plant resources utilized...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Kathryn Puseman. Linda Scott Cummings.

Charcoal from the fill of hearths at the David Williams Site, 41PS1020, were submitted for identification and AMS radiocarbon dating. Fill from one of the hearths also was floated to recover charcoal and other macrofloral remains. This site is a buried open campsite located in west Texas. An adjacent hearth was dated at 7,000 CAL BP.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Kathryn Puseman.

Charcoal and fill samples from possible hearths at the Buckhorn Site (02-251) and the Curtain Site (02-252) were submitted for identification and macrofloral analysis. Macrofloral analysis will be used to provide subsistence information concerning possible plant resources processed in the hearths, while examination of charcoal will identify types of wood burned as fuel in these features and the best possible material for AMS radiocarbon dating.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Kathryn Puseman. Linda Scott Cummings.

Samples from features at sites CA-SBR-5568/H, CA-SBR-10073, CA-SBR-10074, CASBR-10075, CA-SBR-10078, and CA-SBR-12464 in southern California were processed for macrofloral remains and examined using Fourier Transform Infrared Spectrometry (FTIR). In addition, charcoal from CA-SBR-5568/H was submitted for AMS radiocarbon analysis. Sites CA-SBR-10073, CA-SBR-10074, and CA-SBR-10075 represent prehistoric vegetation processing and lithic reduction activity areas that appear to have been seasonally...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Peter Kováčik. Linda Scott Cummings.

The Okami Site lies in the foothills of the Caucasus Mountains in Georgia. Four bulk soil samples collected from different units at this paleoseismic site were submitted for macrofloral analysis to recover charred floral remains suitable for AMS radiocarbon age determination. Microscopic charcoal extraction was requested for two samples that did not yield sufficient visible charcoal to date. A total of three radiocarbon dates were obtained.

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

Red Canyon Ranch, located in the foothills of the Owl Creek Mountains southwest of Thermopolis, Wyoming, contains evidence for multiple human occupations from Paleoindian to Historic times. Archaeological investigations and subsequent archaeobotanical analyses and radiocarbon age determinations span a period of several years and are currently ongoing. To facilitate these analyses, a single site designation of 48HO375 has been assigned. The earliest investigation centered on two hearths: one...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Kathryn Puseman. Linda Scott Cummings.

Samples from four prehistoric thermal features at site 26CK6658 were examined for pollen and macrofloral remains. Charred material from each of these features also was submitted for AMS radiocarbon dating. These features were examined as part of the Laughlin Regional Heritage Greenway Trail Monitoring Project in southern Nevada. This project is located along the Colorado River from Davis Dam south into the city of Laughlin. Pollen and macrofloral analyses were used to determine plant resources...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Kathryn Puseman. Chad Yost.

Fill from a partial stone ring and from a possible hearth in the center of a complete stone ring at site 32ML823 in central North Dakota were floated to recover macrofloral remains. Charcoal recovered from the two macrofloral samples and charcoal from the partial stone ring were submitted for AMS radiocarbon dating. Macrofloral analysis is used to determine plant resources utilized by the occupants of this stone circle site, while radiocarbon dates provide temporal information. Besant...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Kathryn Puseman. Linda Scott Cummings.

Samples from sites 24GF372 and 24GF419 in northern Montana were examined for starches and macrofloral remains. Charcoal and a charred seed from these sites also were submitted for AMS radiocarbon dating. Site 24GF372 is a scatter of cultural material with a basin-shaped hearth. Site 24GF419 contains a bison kill bone bed and two areas of culture material scatter. Macrofloral and starch analyses will be used to provide information concerning plant resources utilized by the occupants of these...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings.

Site ESS-2019-BEN-088, a prehistoric lithic and ceramic scatter, is situated in the Tularosa basin within the White Sands Missile Range (WSMR) of southern New Mexico. This site contains three high density artifact concentrations and three thermal features. All three thermal features were sampled for macrofloral identification and two features contained sufficient charcoal that individual pieces were submitted for identification. All three features were AMS radiocarbon dated to identify the time...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Peter Kováčik.

Prehistoric sites LA 183229 and LA 183231 are located northeast of Carlsbad in Eddy County, New Mexico. Burned caliche concentrations with ash and charcoal staining lacked any diagnostic materials. Soil samples collected from the stained areas at both sites were submitted for macrofloral analysis to provide information regarding paleoenvironment, plant processing, and fuel strategies of sites’ occupants. In addition suitable charred plant remains identified in these two samples were submitted...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings.

Site LA 2894, a prehistoric, structural site, comprises numerous fire-cracked rock (FCR) features and a large artifact assemblage. This temporary Jornada Mogollon, Early to Late Pueblo (A.D. 900–1200) campsite contains evidence of activities focused on tool manufacture and resource processing. Two sediment samples, collected from levels 2 and 3 of Feature 1, an FCR assemblage, were submitted for macrofloral and AMS radiocarbon analyses.

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

Fill from a hearth at site LA 123811 (FB 8612) on the Fort Bliss Military Installation in Otero County, New Mexico, was floated to recover charred macrofloral remains, then obtain a radiocarbon date on identified charcoal. A groundstone recovered from the hearth fill was examined for pollen, phytoliths, and organic residues, the latter using Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy (FTIR). Ethnobotanic analyses of the hearth fill and the groundstone wash will be used to provide subsistence...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Peter Kováčik. Linda Scott Cummings.

Sites 5LA03269, 5LA03300, and 5LA05699 are situated in the Big Arroyo Hills within the Piñon Canyon Maneuver Site (PCMS), Las Animas County, Colorado (Wayne Thomas, personal communication October 6, 2017). Four features encountered at these sites were sampled for macrofloral and anthracological (charcoal) analysis to recover and identify charred floral remains and charcoal suitable for AMS radiocarbon age determination. Four radiocarbon dates were requested to ascertain period of use.

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

Fill from two roasting pits at site 5RB709 in northwest Colorado were examined for macrofloral remains. The fill from one of the roasting pits also was examined using Fourier Transform Infrared Spectrometry (FTIR). The site was tested as part of the Northwest Pipeline Corporation's proposed 2006 Vernal Recoat Project. The roasting pits are associated with Fremont occupation of the site, dating to AD 780-1030. Macrofloral analysis will be used to provide subsistence information concerning...

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

The floated light fractions of seven samples from five sites for the Elk Hills Project in Kern County, southern California, were examined for macrofloral remains. One botanic sample aIso was sent for identification. Identification of macrofloral remains will be used to provide information concerning subsistence activities and possible seasonality, as well as to evaluate the potential for obtaining this type of information from additional macrofloral samples. Three chert flakes exhibiting...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Kathryn Puseman. Chad Yost.

Sediment samples from inside the remains of a mill located at Saint-Grégoire de Bécancour in Quebec, Canada, were examined for phytoliths and macrofloral remains. The mill was built between 1785 and 1808 and was used until 1829 when it was sold. Today, only a small section of the cylinder and the foundations remain. Phytolith and macrofloral analyses may provide information on plant resources processed using this mill.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Peter Kováčik. Linda Scott Cummings.

The Cutter Lateral is one of the major pipelines comprising the Navajo-Gallup Water Supply Project (NGWSP) located in San Juan County and Navajo Nation land in northwestern New Mexico. A total of 51 features from 13 sites (LA178231, LA147736, LA171407, LA45824, NM-G-30-51, LA36578, LA156932, LA179182, NM-G-43-49, NM-G-34-56, NM-G-43-55, NM-G-34-48, and NM-G-34-46) encountered along three segments (Reach 22A, 22B, 21) of the Cutter Lateral and an off-site trench (BHT9) were sampled for...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Peter Kováčik. Linda Scott Cummings.

The 45th Avenue project site (Avenue 45th) is located on the southwest corner of Lincoln Avenue and Avenue 45 in Los Angeles, California. Four soil samples, collected from a boring and a trench in lacustrine deposits, were submitted for macrofloral analysis to recover and identify charred floral remains suitable for AMS radiocarbon age determination. Three samples from B-4 with expected dates between 15,000 and 6,000 years BP (John Helms, personal communication June 15, 2015) and one sample from...