Zuni Pueblo (Site Name Keyword)
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Report on a classroom pollen study using samples from a site and artificial terraces near Zuni Pueblo. Correspondence with the Colorado Plateau Pollen Chronology allows dating of site-context deposits. Some unsual patterns in the distribution of economic pollen types for an Anasazi site, including occurrence of /Gossypium/ (cotton) pollen, were observed.
James Schoenwetter Pollen Research Papers
James Schoenwetter (Ph.D. Southern Illinois 1967) was a Professor Emeritus at Arizona State University. His research interests included prehistoric cultural ecology, applications of pollen analysis in archaeology and research methodology. Before his retirement in 2000 he directed the ASU Anthropology Department’s palynology lab. Pollen research by Schoenwetter and his students involved a variety of sites in Mesoamerica, North America and Europe. He directed archaeological and botanical...
Notes on Hinckson Site Palynology (1992)
Draft of an article submitted for publication in, "Plateau." Suggests discrepancies between pollen cross-dating and ceramic cross-dates with tree rings may be the expected consequence of difference between the time pollen is deposited in a sample and the duration of the use-lifes of ceramic styles associated with the sample. Rejected by reviewers.
POLLEN ANALYSIS FOR SITES LA110315, LA110325, LA110326, AND LA110327, ZUNI PUEBLO, NEW MEXICO (1997)
Four sites on Dutton Plateau and the extreme southern portion of the San Juan Basin were sampled for pollen. Site LA110315 is a Pueblo II site situated in a broad valley on the Dutton Plateau. Sites LA110325, LA110326, and LA110327 represent Basketmaker occupations, and are situated in the southernmost portion of the San Juan Basin near tributaries of Indian Creek. Seven pollen samples were examined from storage pits and pithouses in an effort to identify native and cultivated plants used...