Church at Santa Ines Mission (Site Name Keyword)

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings.

The primary purpose in examining an adobe brick from the 1804 Church at Santa Ines Mission was to search for phytolith evidence that a threshing sledge was used. A stone-floored threshing floor was observed at the site (Tremaine 1992). Costello notes (personal communication, February 2001) that the threshing floor might not date to the first year of the mission, which is represented by this brick. Therefore, digestion of a small quantity of adobe brick was undertaken to provide a sample of...