Baum Pumping Station Road Site (Site Name Keyword)

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings.

A possible cooking stone and four fire-cracked rocks from a hearth at the Baum Pumping Station Road Site (36AR0539) in western Pennsylvania were submitted for organic residue analysis using Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy (FTIR). FTIR analysis was conducted on the possible cooking stone and two of the four fire-cracked rock samples, which were selected at PaleoResearch Institute. Since the placement of the fire-cracked rocks within the hearth had deteriorated, there was no discernible...