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DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings.

Stratigraphic pollen samples recovered from a 5.85 m deep section located in a recent placer mine cut along the north margin of the Barton Gulch Valley were examined to identify elements of the local vegetation and to reconstruct paleoenvironmental conditions from 10,360 BP to 3,900 BP. The Barton Gulch area was occupied by Paleoindians by 9,400 BP, and occupational strata are noted through approximately 3,900 BP (Davis et al. 1988, 1989; Davis 1993). Chronostratigraphic markers include stratum...