PaleoResearch Institute

DOCUMENT Full-Text Kathryn Puseman. Laura Ruggiero.

Three soil samples from Site 41WM908 in central Texas were floated to recover charcoal and other charred macrofloral remains. This site appears to have been utilized by the prehistoric occupants to quarry chert for the manufacture of stone tools. The macrofloral samples were recovered from areas of charred anomalies to determine if these areas represent prehistoric features.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Kathryn Puseman.

Six samples from a column excavated through a burnt rock midden at the Sims-Mayner site (CA-LAN-3151) were examined for macrofloral remains. This site is located in the Chilao Flat Recreation Area of the San Gabriel Mountains in southwest California, and it represents a small habitation initially occupied around AD 390-550. Projectile points suggest affiliation with the Rose Spring Cultural Complex (cal AD 200-1100). Macrofloral analysis will be used to provide information concerning plant...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Kathryn Puseman.

A total of six samples from two units at site CA-SBA-207 on Vandenberg Air Force Base, California, were floated to recover macrofloral remains. This site consists of a dense shell midden on a coastal bluff. Macrofloral analysis will be used to provide information concerning plant resources utilized by the prehistoric occupants of this area.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Kathryn Puseman.

A total of 16 samples from a site in southern Turkey were examined for macrofloral remains. These samples were recovered from strata in trenches placed in a sea cave and an interfluve. Macrofloral analysis is used to provide information concerning plant resources utilized by the occupants of this site.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Kathryn Puseman.

Remains from three stone hearths at Acanto Parcel-1 in Palm Springs, California, were submitted for macrofloral identification. This site represents a Desert Cahuilla occupation. Macrofloral analysis is used to provide information concerning plant resources utilized by the site occupants.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Peter Kovacik.

A column sample representing a 20x20x20 cm area within an intact A horizon was collected from site CA-SBA-3746 at Mt. Calvary at St. Mary’s, Santa Barbara County, California. The site is situated on a knoll approximately 100 meters north of the Santa Barbara Mission and south of Mission Creek. Materials present in the sample may represent the historic occupation of the mission and potentially an earlier prehistoric component. Macrofloral analysis of the column sample identifies plants present...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Kathryn Puseman.

Fill samples from a hearth and a charcoal stain at Site 5EP2020 in central Colorado were examined for macrofloral remains. In addition, charcoal from Feature 1, the hearth, was sent for identification. This site appears to have been a single component site that was occupied during the Late Prehistoric period, based on a radiocarbon date of 1010 ± 50 BP from the hearth. Macrofloral analysis is used to provide information concerning subsistence at this site.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Kathryn Puseman. Jaime Dexter.

Two macrofloral samples were examined from deflated hearths at site CA-KER-6134 in Kern County, California. This site is a Kawaiisu temporary campsite dating to the Rose Spring Period (ca. 1,500-1,000 B.P.) or the Late Period (1,000 B.P. to present). Macrofloral analysis was conducted in order to determine possible plant resources available to the occupants of this site.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Kathryn Puseman.

Floated feature fill was examined for macrofloral remains from sites 5ME6731, 5MN3859, 5MN3876, 5SM2425, LA 20266, LA 38528, LA 86086, and LA 120494 as part of the TransColorado Pipeline Project. These eight sites represent Archaic, Formative, Dinetah Navajo, and early historic Ute occupations in western Colorado and northern New Mexico. Macrofloral analysis will be used to provide information concerning plant resources utilized by the various occupants of these sites to aid in determining...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Kathryn Puseman.

Samples from the fill of two cooking pits, two bell-shaped pits, four surface hearths, and one burned area on the surface at site CA-SCL-714H in Gilroy, California, were floated to recover charred macrofloral remains. This site represents a Protohistoric/Historic Costanoan occupation around 1800 A.D. Macrofloral analysis will be used to provide information concerning plant resources utilized by the occupants of this site, particularly use of foods available from the local Spanish missions,...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Cynthia Adkins. Kathryn Puseman.

Four samples from features at three sites for the Stone Energy project in Sublette County, Wyoming, were examined for carbonized macrofloral remains. Remains from two hearths at site 48SU2462, one hearth at site 48SU4923, and one hearth at site 48SU5296 were examined. Unfortunately, charcoal collected from all hearths was sent for conventional radiocarbon dating prior to identification. Macrofloral analysis is used to provide information concerning prehistoric plant resources utilized by...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Kathryn Puseman.

Samples from six hearths at Site 5BLl53 in northern Colorado were examined for macrofloral remains. This site is a multicomponent site, and the hearths represent late Archaic, Middle Archaic, and late Prehistoric occupations. Macrofloral analysis is used to provide information concerning woods used as fuel and plants processed at the site.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Kathryn Puseman.

Fifteen bulk soil samples and two charcoal samples were collected from Holocene fluvial terraces along Ochoco Creek east of Prineville, Oregon. These samples were processed in order to identify charcoal and other potentially radiocarbon datable material. Two pieces of wood from piles of floated debris along the Crooked River in central Oregon also were sent for identification.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Kathryn Puseman.

The fill from two hearths at Site 5WL1794 in eastern Colorado, was floated ton recover macrofloral remains. Feature 3 yielded a radiocarbon date of 2970 + 90 BP, suggesting a Middle to Late Archaic occupation. Analysis of the macrofloral remains was undertaken to provide information concerning possible use of these hearths for processing foods.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings. Jenna Battillo.

The Santa Barbara Presidio site (CA-SBA-133) is a 19th Century Spanish/Mexican Period site located in Santa Barbara, California. Two bulk sediment samples excavated from a trash pit at the fort were submitted for flotation and macrofloral analysis. The goal of the project is to better understand the trading relationship between the presidio soldiers and the local Chumash tribe.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Kathryn Puseman. Peter J. Gleichman.

Six soil samples from undifferentiated midden deposits at site CA-SBA-990 on North Vandenberg Air Force Base, California, were floated to recover macrofloral remains. This site is a lithic and shell deposit containing chert debitage, flaked stone tools, marine shell, fish and terrestrial animal bone, shell beads, fire-altered rock, and ground stone tools. Radiocarbon dates from shell at the site suggest occupation from the Late Prehistoric into the Protohistoric, approximately A.D....

DOCUMENT Full-Text Kathryn Puseman. Peter J. Gleichman.

Six soil samples from undifferentiated midden deposits at site CA-SBA-990 on North Vandenberg Air Force Base, California, were floated to recover macrofloral remains. This site is a lithic and shell deposit containing chert debitage, flaked stone tools, marine shell, fish and terrestrial animal bone, shell beads, fire-altered rock, and ground stone tools. Radiocarbon dates from shell at the site suggest occupation from the Late Prehistoric into the Protohistoric, approximately A.D....

DOCUMENT Full-Text Kathryn Puseman.

Six soil samples from undifferentiated midden deposits at site CA-SBA-990 on North Vandenberg Air Force Base, California, were floated to recover macrofloral remains. This site is a lithic and shell deposit containing chert debitage, flaked stone tools, marine shell, fish and terrestrial animal bone, shell beads, fire-altered rock, and ground stone tools. Radiocarbon dates from shell at the site suggest occupation from the Late Prehistoric into the Protohistoric, approximately A.D....

DOCUMENT Full-Text Kathryn Puseman. Linda Scott Cummings. Peter J. Gleichman.

Three midden samples from arbitrary 10-centimeter levels in a column at shell mound site CA-SMA-151 in San Mateo County, coastal California, were examined for macrofloral remains. The lowest level of the column stopped at the level above a human burial. The site is within the Coastanoan/Ohlone ethnographic area, and similar sites in the area have been dated to the Late Period, about 1200-1300 A.D. Conventional radiocarbon ages of 1090 ± 40 BP and 920 ± 40 BP were obtained on mussel shell...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Peter Kováčik.

A multicomponent site with the temporary number GCLA-OC-2016-1 lies in the Orange Cliffs portion of the Glen Canyon National Recreation Area, Wayne County, Utah. The fill of a slab-lined hearth sampled in two different locations was submitted for macrofloral analysis to identify food and fuel related activities of the prehistoric occupants of this region.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Peter Kováčik.

Site MC-1 lies in the city of Agoura Hills, Los Angeles County, California. Two sediment samples, collected from a test unit placed approximately 50 meters from Medea Creek, were submitted for macrofloral analysis to recover and identify plants used by site occupants. Radiocarbon analysis conducted on material recovered from the test unit provided two sets of age ranges suggesting occupation between AD 1455–1645 (70–80 cmbd) and AD 1650–post 1950 (10–20 cmbd)(Breana Campbell, personal...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Kathryn Puseman.

Samples from feature fill and/or auger tests at sites 48LN1301, 48LN3997, and 48LN4114 in southwest Wyoming were floated to recover charred macrofloral remains. These sites were excavated as part of the Ruby Pipeline project. Macrofloral analysis will be used to provide information concerning plants utilized by the prehistoric occupants of these sites.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Kathryn Puseman. Melissa K. Logan.

Twenty-three feature and unit fill samples from sites 5EP0056 and 5EP5906 in Training Area 25 at the Fort Carson Military Reservation in El Paso County, Colorado, were examined for macrofloral remains. Site 5EP5906 (a rockshelter) appears to represent occupation of the area during the Early Archaic (7800 BP-5000 BP), while occupation of 5EP0056 has a tentative range of the late Developmental Period (AD 200-AD 1050) to early Diversification Period (AD 1050-AD 1450). Macrofloral analysis will...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Kathryn Puseman.

Samples from Sites 5LA6230, 5LA6266, and 5OT430 in southeastern Colorado were examined for macrofloral remains. These samples were collected from the fill of hearths found at the sites. Macrofloral analysis is used to provide information concerning foods processed in the hearths.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Kathryn Puseman. Laura Ruggiero.

Sediment samples from three sites in the Fort Rock Basin of south-central Oregon were floated to recover macrofloral remains. A single charcoal sample also was identified and submitted for radiocarbon dating. The Bergen site (35LK3175) and Claim A1 site (35LK3176) represent lowland sites, and a house ring was excavated in the Boulder Village Uplands. Macrofloral analysis is used to provide information concerning plant resources utilized at these sites.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Kathryn Puseman.

Samples from 21 sites excavated as part of the Mid-America Pipeline Company's Rocky Mountain Expansion Loop pipeline project in eastern Utah and western Colorado were examined for macrofloral remains. These sites represent a wide range of site types and occupations, including the Archaic Era, Formative Era, Anasazi Pueblo II, Protohistoric, Ute, and Historic periods. Macrofloral analysis will be used to determine plant resources utilized by the various occupants of these sites, which will...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Kathryn Puseman.

Seven samples from Great Basin sites in the Ward Charcoal Ovens State Park in Nevada were examined for macrofloral remains. Lithic materials recovered from many of these sites appear to be Archaic tools and debitage. Macrofloral analysis is used to provide information concerning possible plant resources utilized by the various occupants of the sites. This information will aid in determining the research potential of these sites.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Kathryn Puseman. Jaime Dexter.

Fill samples from three features at sites LA 135868 and LA 135870 were floated to recover macrofloral remains. These sites are part of the Tesuque Ridge Ranch development project north of Santa Fe, New Mexico. Although no dates are currently available to identify the sites' temporal associations, ceramics recovered at site LA 135868 indicate an occupation range of A.D. 1250-1400. Macrofloral analysis will be used to determine plant resources utilized by the occupants of these sites.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Kathryn Puseman.

Four samples from Skeeter Shelter, site 5EP46, were floated to recover charred macrofloral remains. This site consists of a small rock shelter and associated rock art located on the Fort Carson Military Reservation south of Colorado Springs, Colorado. Samples were recovered from an area northeast of the rock shelter from a small remnant terrace with an intact prehistoric occupation layer. The main occupation of the site is believed to represent the early Developmental period with radiocarbon...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Kathryn Puseman.

Samples from several sites in the Ancho Canyon Mine Area, New Mexico, were examined for macrofloral remains. This area appears to be one where several cultures overlapped. Radiocarbon dates range from 290 B.C. to A.D. 1870, representing Late Archaic through historic Jicarilla Apache occupations. Macrofloral analysis is used to provide information concerning subsistence activities at these sites.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Peter Kovacik.

The Bailey Site (NYSM #11165) is a small campsite in Oswego County, New York, containing artifacts dating from the Chance Phase of the Late Woodland Period. There is also a Transitional/Terminal Archaic component to the campsite,although this occupation left no large features and seems to reflect limited site use. The light fractions of seventeen flotation samples collected from features and use surfaces were submitted for macrofloral analysis to provide evidence of seasonal or year-round...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings.

Nine samples from features at Sites 5HF1079, 5HF1082 , 5HF1096 , and 5HF1109 in south-central Colorado were floated to recover charred macrofloral remains. These sites represent late Archaic through late Prehistoric occupations, with radiocarbon dates ranging from 2060 ± 70 BP to 520 ± 60 BP. Macrofloral analysis is used to provide information concerning plant resources utilized at these sites.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Kathryn Puseman. Chad Yost.

Four samples from the Dirty Shame Rockshelter (35ML65) in southeast Oregon were floated to recover macrofloral remains. This site is a large shelter (approximately 60 meters long) and was excavated as a part of the 2010 University of Oregon Archaeological Field School with support from Dianne Pritchard, Vale District BLM Archaeologist. Samples reflect fill from a pole and thatch structure (Feature 1), as well as sediments from levels within the shelter. Radiocarbon dates of 1140 ± 95 BP and 1175...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Kathryn Puseman.

Proposed construction of a bike path bridge over Dutch Creek resulted in Test pit excavations of the impacted areas at Site 5JF463. This site is a prehistoric campsite containing at least three cultural components located near Denver, Colorado. The 1992 test pit excavations yielded cultural deposits dating to approximately 4210 BP, suggesting a Middle Archaic occupation. Feature fill from Test pits 1 and 2 was sampled for macrofloral remains to provide possible subsistence information.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Kathryn Puseman.

Samples from two test units placed inside a rockshelter (PY-060) on the South Fork of the Salmon River in central Idaho were examined for macrofloral remains. Soil from the rock shelter fill yielded a radiocarbon date of 840 + 40 BP, suggesting a Late Prehistoric occupation. Late Prehistoric projectile points were also found. Macrofloral analysis is used to provide information concerning plants that were utilized by the rock shelter inhabitants, as well as the season of occupation.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Kathryn Puseman.

Samples from four prehistoric archaeological sites along the James River in Stutsman County, North Dakota, and one sample from a prehistoric archaeological site on the Heart River in Grant County, North Dakota, were examined for macrofloral remains. Sites along the James River in southeastern North Dakota represent multiple occupations, including Middle Plains Woodland, Late Plains Woodland, and Early Plains Village. Site 32GT32 along the Heart River in southwest North Dakota appears to...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Kathryn Puseman. Melissa K. Logan.

Macrofloral analysis was conducted on samples recovered from features at the Reaves Site (42DA536) and the Finch Draw Site (42DA1269) in the Ashley National Forest, Utah. The Reaves Site consists of three Archaic roasting pits and three Fremont roasting pits. Macrofloral samples were submitted from the fill of an Archaic roasting pit and the fill of a Fremont roasting pit that is intrusive into the Archaic pit. The Finch Draw Site contains two rockshelters. Samples were examined from an...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Kathryn Puseman.

The floated light fractions from five samples at Site CA-SDI-13078 (Rhodes Crossing Project) were analyzed for macrofloral remains. This site is located in San Diego, California, and radiocarbon dates reflect Late Archaic and Late Prehistoric occupations. Samples were recovered from columns in two control units, one of which contained a small hearth. Macrofloral analysis is used to determine plant resources processed at the site, as well as wood burned as fuel.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Kathryn Puseman. Jaime Dexter.

Seven water-screened samples from an historic late-nineteenth century Chinese habitation site in San Francisco’s Mission District, California, were examined for macrofloral remains. This site was discovered during excavation of a five-acre parcel during the Valencia Gardens Housing Project. The macrofloral samples were recovered in the architectural remnants of a structure occupied by Chinese vegetable farmers before the Great Earthquake of 1906. Macrofloral analysis will provide...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Kathryn Puseman.

Samples from three features at Site 5LA6197 in southeast Colorado were examined for macrofloral remains. This site consists of an east-facing rock shelter immediately adjacent to Trinchera Creek. The shelter contains two distinct occupational episodes. Radiocarbon dates and diagnostic artifacts indicate Middle Archaic and Early Ceramic occupations, and the three features yielded uncalibrated radiocarbon dates of 1690 + 80 BP, 2630 + 70 BP, and 4900 + 90 BP. Macrofloral analysis is used to...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Kathryn Puseman.

Seven samples were submitted from two test pits for the Uranao Beach Resort Project on the northwest coast of Guam to identify charred material that could be submitted for radiocarbon analysis. Two of the samples were collected in bulk and floated prior to analysis, while the remaining five samples were merely water-screened to remove excess sediment. The two test pits sampled are noted to contain multiple cultural sequences that could range between 400 to 1600 A.D., based on ceramic...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda J. Scott. PaleoResearch Institute.

Macrofloral analysis was undertaken at site AZ 1:1:17 along State Road 64 in the Kaibab National Forest in conjunction with archaeological mitigation. The site is located in the Upper Basin, a Pinyon-Juniper ecotone located south of Grand Canyon's South Rim. This Kayenta Anasazi site consists of three pithouses and a surface room, dating to the Pueblo II period (AD 900-1100). All four structures burned, increasing the probability that macrofloral remains would have been preserved....

DOCUMENT Full-Text Kathryn Puseman.

Two samples from a Manasota shell midden on the southeast side of Tampa Bay in west-central Florida were examined for macrofloral remains. The midden contained shell from a variety of shellfish, as well as faunal bone and pottery. Diagnostic pottery reflects the Early Manasota period (500 BC to AD 300), Late Manasota period (AD 300-700), and Safety Harbor period (AD 900-1500), indicating a long period of site use. Macrofloral analysis is used to provide subsistence information concerning plant...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Kathryn Puseman.

Twelve soil samples from Site 7NC-F-18 in northern Delaware were floated to recover charred macrofloral remains. Five samples were recovered from prehistoric pit features and seven samples came from stratified prehistoric levels. Macrofloral analysis is used to provide information concerning plant resources that may have been utilized by the prehistoric occupants of this site.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Kathryn Puseman. Chad Yost.

A total of eleven stratigraphic sediment samples from the Johnsondale Work Center, site CA-TUL-819, in southern Tulare county, California, were submitted for macrofloral analysis. A groundstone mano, a projectile point, and a blade from this site were submitted for protein residue analysis, while the groundstone mano also was washed to recovery phytoliths. This site consists of bedrock milling features and associated artifacts. Macrofloral, protein residue, and phytolith analyses will be used to...

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 Linda Scott Cummings.

The Espy-Cornwell Site (48CR4001) is a bison kill/butchering site located approximately 16 miles south of Rawlins in south-central Wyoming. Situated directly under an east-facing sandstone cliff, this site is warm on even a cold day. It overlooks a small valley containing spring-fed creeks and small drainages, Macrofloral analysis was conducted on two firepits to examine any record of plant utilization by the occupants. Bison kill/butchering sites are rare in this area, so this site...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Kathryn Puseman.

Fill from two hearths discovered during well pad construction for the Noble Energy, Iron Horse 34-33-B project, located five miles southeast of Lysite, Wyoming, were examined for macrofloral remains. Macrofloral analysis will be used to provide information concerning what foods were cooked in the hearth as well as to identify the fuel used in the hearths.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings. PaleoResearch Institute.

Two macrofloral samples were collected from a single hearth in Dinosaur National Monument. This site is located in a rockshelter, and appears to represent a single occupation of Fremont people. A radiocarbon age of 1410 ± 80 BP was returned for this hearth. Analysis of macrofloral remains was aimed at identifying any subsistence activities associated with this hearth.

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 Kathryn Puseman.

Two samples from hearth features at Site 5WL1795 were examined for macrofloral remains. Based on sites in similar settings, these hearths are assumed to represent a Woodland occupation. Macrofloral analysis is used to address subsistence activities at this site.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Kathryn Puseman.

Two samples from the lower organic levels of what is believed to be Chief Ouray's privy were examined for macrofloral remains. The privy was located at the Chief Ouray Homesite, 5MM847, near Montrose, Colorado. Artifacts recovered from these lower levels of the privy suggest a late 1870's Genizaro occupation (Monte Sarriburg, personal communication, April 9, 1991). Macrofloral analysis addresses components of the diet.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Kathryn Puseman.

Three samples from Site 5WL48 and two samples from Site 5WLL555 were examined for macrofloral remains. Samples were taken from hearths found in sand dunes. Radiocarbon dates from bulk soil samples collected from hearths associated with those that were sampled for macrofloral remains suggest Late Archaic occupations for both sites, 3230 + 80 to 2070 + 100 BP. Macrofloral analysis is used to address subsistence activities at these sites.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Melissa K. Logan. Kathryn Puseman.

Fill recovered from an isolated roasting pit at site LA165923 in Eddy County, southeast New Mexico, was floated to recover macrofloral remains. Charcoal from the macrofloral sample was submitted for AMS radiocarbon dating. Three stones from the feature, as well as a control stone from the site surface, were examined for organic residues using Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy (FTIR). Macrofloral and organic residue (FTIR) analyses will be used to provide information concerning food...

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 Peter Kováčik.

Site 48CO3669 (Project locality 7614-1) represents a hearth located about 44 miles north of Douglas in Converse County, Wyoming. Four non-diagnostic lithics also were recovered at this locality. Soil from two 1 inch diameter cores, collected from a hearth feature, was submitted to recover charcoal suitable for AMS radiocarbon dating. Charcoal from this locality is expected to date between 5000 and 500 years BP (John Greer, personal communication March 31, 2015). Additional feature fill was...

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. Linda Scott Cummings. Melissa K. Logan.

Fill from two hearths at site LA 126486 near Deming, New Mexico were examined for macrofloral remains. Charcoal recovered from the fill of both features was submitted for AMS radiocarbon dating, and a fire-cracked rock from one of the hearths was analyzed for organic residue using Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy (FTIR). Macrofloral and FTIR analysis will be used to provide subsistence information concerning plant and animal resources utilized at this site.

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 Linda Scott Cummings. Peter Kováčik. Jennifer L.B. Milligan.

The Fort Lookout II site (39LM57) is a multicomponent site located on an MT-1 terrace along the eroding west bank of the Missouri River (Lake Francis Case) at the southern end of the Fort Hale bottoms, Lyman County, South Dakota. Archaeological investigations at the site include excavations in 1950, 1951, 1986, 1999, and 2001. The site demonstrates village occupation during the Initial Middle Missouri as well as subsequent historic components (Katherine Lamie, personal communication March 2,...

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 Kathryn Puseman.

Fill from a roasting pit feature at site 42WS479 in southwest Utah was floated to recover charred macrofloral remains. Charcoal from the sample was processed for AMS radiocarbon dating. This site represents a relatively large open scatter with a very large thermal feature in the center. Artifacts from the feature suggest a late Archaic occupation. Macrofloral analysis will be used to provide information concerning plant resources utilized by the site occupants, as well as a radiocarbon date...

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 Linda Scott Cummings.

Site LA 75160 is located immediately adjacent to and east of Kenna Draw. It is situated on a sandy hummock sloping into a man-made drainage between the railroad bed and the hummock. Three features were examined for macrofloral remains and charcoal. In addition, charcoal individually picked from backhoe trenches and Feature 1 was identified. These studies were undertaken to identify elements of the past environment, as well as probable subsistence items processed at this site. Charcoal...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Kathryn Puseman. Laura Ruggiero.

The floated light fractions from 27 features at the Meland site (39DW165) and the Brams site (39ZB31) in northwestern South Dakota were examined for charcoal and other charred macrofloral remains. Six additional samples from 39ZB31 consist only of charcoal and/or other remains pulled from the floated light and heavy fractions. Diagnostic artifacts suggest that the Meland site has Late Plains Archaic and Late Prehistoric components, while the Brams site has Middle Plains Archaic (3000-1000...

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

Samples from features at sites 41CP28, 41CP88, and 41CP414 in Camp County, northeastern Texas, were examined for macrofloral remains. Individual charcoal and botanic samples were recovered from various levels within shovel tests and units at these sites and also submitted for identification. A single ceramic sherd from 41CP88 was analyzed for pollen, starch, phytoliths, and organic residues, the latter using Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy (FTIR). These sites represent Caddo...

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. Linda Scott Cummings.

Fill from the interior of a fire-cracked rock feature at site 5LR11836 in northern Colorado was floated to recover macrofloral remains. Two rocks capping the feature were examined for organic residues using Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy (FTIR). Charcoal from the feature fill yielded a date of 4180 ± 40 BP. Macrofloral analysis will be used to provide information concerning plant resources utilized by the site occupants. FTIR analysis of the feature rocks will look for the presence...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Elizabeth Hickey. Linda Scott Cummings. Kathryn Puseman.

Two samples were submitted from hearths at sites 48YE252 and 24YE357 in Yellowstone National Park. Site 48YE252 is located in the southeast arm of Yellowstone Lake, while site 24YE357 is situated northwest of Gardiner, Montana, on the bank of the Yellowstone River. Both samples were submitted for macrofloral analysis; the sample from 48YE252 was also examined for organic residues using Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy (FTIR).

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

Three sediment samples from the Summit Camp (FS Site 05-17-57-633) in northeastern California were floated to recover macrofloral remains and examined for organic residues using Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy (FTIR). This site is a railroad construction camp at the crest of Donner Pass that was occupied from 1865-1868 by Chinese laborers while blasting tunnels through the mountains for the Transcontinental Railroad. It is noted to be one of the earliest large Chinese occupation...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Kathryn Puseman. Linda Scott Cummings. Laura Ruggiero.

Samples from features at sites 48YE246, 48YE380, 48YE449, and 48YE762 in Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming, were floated to recover charred macrofloral remains. Macrofloral analysis is used to provide information concerning plant resources that may have been processed and woods burned as fuel. Three features also were examined for phytoliths to determine if phytolith analysis would be informative in understanding the use of deep, structurally complex features classified as "roasting pits"...

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 Kathryn Puseman. Linda Scott Cummings.

The fill from three hearth samples at the Pinnacles site (39PN9) in the South Dakota Badlands National Park were processed for both pollen and macrofloral analyses. The floated light fractions from two additional hearth samples and two cultural levels exposed in vertical profiles also were examined for macrofloral remains. Samples were obtained from two different areas of the site that represent two different occupations. Area 932 yielded a corrected date of 379 B.C. and represents a Late...

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 Kathryn Puseman.

Three soil samples from Late Prehistoric site 24DL470 in southwest Montana were floated to recover charred macrofloral remains. Five lithic artifacts were submitted for protein residue analysis. This site is believed to be associated with Numic (Shoshone) Expansion in the area, and features at the site might have been used for camas roasting or chert cooking activities. Macrofloral analysis will be used to determine plant resources utilized and possible feature function. Protein residue...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Kathryn Puseman.

Soil samples and lithic artifacts were analyzed from two boulder rock shelters at Site AZ U:5:18(ASM) in central Arizona. A soil sample also was examined from a ramada outside the rock shelters. Diagnostic artifacts recovered from these two rock shelters suggest multiple occupations ranging from the Late Archaic through Hohokam into Yavapai/Apache. Soil samples were floated to recover charred macrofloral remains that are used to provide information concerning plant resources that were utilized...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Kathryn Puseman.

Feature fill, charcoal, or lithic artifacts were recovered from seven sites in the Off-Road Vehicle area at Edwards Air Force Base in southern California. These sites are being evaluated for eligibility to the National Register of Historic Places. Macrofloral analysis of fill from two hearths is used to provide information concerning possible plant resources processed in the hearths. Charcoal recovered from a test unit will be identified to determine types of wood burned as fuel. Lithic...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Kathryn Puseman.

A total of fifteen samples from four sites (8MT1454, 8MT1455, 8MT1456, and 8MT1458) of the CRAS of Lakeside Ranch STA Project Area were submitted for macrofloral analysis. Each of these samples was evaluated for the presence of macrobotanical remains, their condition, and if they are present as a result of human activity. For ten of the samples received by Paleo Research, half of the sample had been dry screened through nested sieves and the other half of the sample had been floated to...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings.

Three flotation samples were examined from the Terre Rouge Site (3NE93) in Nevada County, southwestern Arkansas for evidence of charred macrofloral remains. This site consists mainly of Fourche Maline midden deposits (1000 to 500 BC to approximately AD 900). Archaic and late Paleoindian material was recorded below the midden.

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...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Kathryn Puseman.

Four macrofloral samples were submitted for analysis from CA-ORA-3221/1118. Upon receipt of a prehistoric date for shells from the shell midden and a recent historic date for charred seeds, this project was canceled. Information presented below represents analysis completed prior to cancellation. All four macrofloral samples submitted were floated and one sample had been sorted and inventoried prior to cancellation of this project.

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The feature sampled appeared to represent historic midden deposits from the 1700s to mid-1800s, some of which were burned. The bottom of the pit contained ash, indicating a thorough burning of the remains. Material above this layer, however, was either partially charred, or uncharred. The majority of the elements of the macrofloral record are uncharred and may represent either material discarded in the midden deposit, or may be present as the result of natural occurrence in the environment.

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Macrofloral analysis of charred fibers from Early Village Pithouse II Compartment. Samples.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Kathryn Puseman. Melissa K. Logan.

Hearth/fire pit fill samples from sites CrNV-11-14170, CrNV-11-14197, and CrNV-11-14923 in Elko County, Nevada, were floated to recover charred macrofloral remains. Firecracked rock recovered from the macrofloral samples were tested for organic residues using Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy (FTIR). Charcoal or charred botanic material from each of the three macrofloral samples was submitted for AMS radiocarbon dating to provide temporal information about use of these features....

DOCUMENT Full-Text Kathryn Puseman. Linda Scott Cummings.

Charcoal and fill samples from levels noted in the Broken Arrow site, 42KA4356, were analyzed for macrofloral remains. This site is a large cave situated southwest of Lake Powell on the Utah-Arizona border. Four charcoal samples were recovered from cultural levels within test areas in the cave, while seven flotation samples were collected from visually distinct levels with a larger compacted organics level in one of the test areas. Ceramics and sandal styles from the cave indicate a...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Kathryn Puseman. Linda Scott Cummings.

Sediment samples from site CA-SBA-1010 on Vandenberg Air Force Base, California, were floated to recover macrofloral remains. Individual charcoal/wood samples also were submitted for identification. Macrofloral analysis is used to provide information concerning plant resources available to and utilized by the occupants of this site. Two mortars also were washed for phytoliths to recover evidence of plants processed using these tools. Radiocarbon dates suggest that the site was occupied from...

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

Ten samples from site LA 171726 at the Turner B South Tank Battery in Eddy County, New Mexico, were submitted for macrofloral, phytolith, and organic residue analyses. Seven samples were collected from features in an area of the site contaminated with chlorides and some oil. The remaining samples consisted of fill from two small, basin-shaped thermal features believed to represent hearths in an area of the site not affected by the spill. The results of analyses from samples not affected by the...