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DOCUMENT Full-Text R.A. Varney. Kathryn Puseman.

The Sevenmile Gulch site is located in southwestern Wyoming within the Green River Basin. The site is situated 18 miles west of the Green River and 1.3 miles north of the Blacks Fork River. The site sits upon the crest and slopes of a low southwest- to northeast-trending ridge at 6400 feet amsl. The ridge is actually a terrace of the Blacks Fork River that has been dissected by many small, deeply cut drainages. Pollen samples from two separate occupational surfaces dating to 1000 ± 40 RCYBP...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings. Kathryn Puseman. R.A. Varney.

Single samples were submitted for pollen and macrofloral analysis from site 42WS4335, representing a probable Pueblo II Anasazi occupation in southwest Utah. These samples represent fill from a small hearth in an exterior work area and were examined to provide information about plants that might have been processed in or near the hearth.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Kathryn Puseman. Linda Scott Cummings. Thomas E. Moutoux.

Samples from the Triangle Road Mitigation Project, Site AZ BB:9:87(ASM), in southern Arizona were examined for pollen and macrofloral remains. This site is a Tortolita Phase, Tucson Basin Hohokam habitation site that is believed to have been occupied only a short period of time. Charcoal samples from this site have yielded calibrated radiocarbon dates of A.D. 370 to 615 and A.D. 590 to 695. Pollen and macrofloral analyses are used to provide information concerning possible plant resources...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Kathryn Puseman. Linda Scott Cummings.

Pollen and macrofloral samples were examined from the fill of a burned pitstructure and a nearby activity area at site 42Sv2546. These features were discovered in a backhoe trench along State Street in the town of Salina, Utah. Pollen and macrofloral analyses will be used to provide information concerning plant resources available to and possibly utilized by the prehistoric occupants of 42Sv2546.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Kathryn Puseman. Linda Scott Cummings.

Pollen, macrofloral, botanic, and protein residue samples were examined from site 42WS2227 in southwest Utah, representing a large, intensively looted Anasazi Pueblo with an estimated Pueblo II occupation. Samples were submitted from two separate testing areas. Samples from Test Area #1 (Feature 4) on the west side of the road were associated with an adobe floor. Test Area #2 (Feature 9) in a disturbed/vandalized area east of the road contained an adobe-floored structure, a possible...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Kathryn Puseman. Linda Scott Cummings.

Pollen, macrofloral, botanic, and protein residue samples were examined from site 42WS2227 in southwest Utah, representing a large, intensively looted Anasazi Pueblo with an estimated Pueblo II occupation. Samples were submitted from two separate testing areas. Samples from Test Area #1 (Feature 4) on the west side of the road were associated with an adobe floor. Test Area #2 (Feature 9) in a disturbed/vandalized area east of the road contained an adobe-floored structure, a possible...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Kathryn Puseman. Linda Scott Cummings.

Pollen and macrofloral samples were examined from a single hearth area surrounded by lithics and bones at the Vivendi site, 24CA0656, near Great Falls, Montana. This site is a single component Pelican Lake open camp used for meat processing activities. Faunal remains recovered at the site include shell, eggshell, and bison, deer, bear and dog bone. Pollen and macrofloral analyses will be used to provide information concerning paleoenvironment, seasonality, and subsistence.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings. Kathryn Puseman.

Pollen and macrofloral samples were analyzed from proveniences associated with West Rowhouse #5 (Site 46JF209) near the Shenandoah River on Virginius Island, Harper's Ferry National Historical Park. The rowhouses were built in 1850 and served as housing for workers in either Herr's Flour Mill or the Harper's Ferry and Shenandoah Manufacturing Company's cotton factory. The rowhouses were destroyed in the 1920s. Samples were examined from the inner basin of a raceway built along the banks of the...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings. Kathryn Puseman.

Samples from fire-cracked rock features at three sites (24GA101, 241C237 and 24IC1064) in western Montana were examined for pollen, starch, and macrofloral remains. These sites represent a wide range of occupations from 770 to 3530 BP, and have been affected by fluctuating water levels caused by dams. Pollen, starch, and macrofloral analysis at these sites will help identify subsistence activities.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings. Kathryn Puseman.

Four features from three archaeological sites in the Ashley National Forest were examined for pollen and/or macrofloral remains. Site 42DA669 is represented by pollen and macrofloral records from a slab-lined basin estimated to represent Fremont occupation. Site 42DA791, a Fremont site, is represented by two pollen samples and a single macrofloral sample from the pithouse/brush structure that yielded a radiocarbon age of 1420 BP. Site 42DA534 yielded a pollen and macrofloral record from a...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings.

Pollen and macrofloral samples were collected from three sites (48LN1738, 48LN1733, and 48LNl185) along the Questar Shute Creek Pipeline. Stratigraphic pollen columns were collected to identify paleoenvironmental conditions at the time of occupation, as well as between occupations, and from the last occupation to the present. In addition, both pollen and macrofloral samples were collected in association with features in an effort to determine subsistence activity at these sites. All three...

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

Pollen and macrofloral analysis were under taken at five sites within the Trough Hollow area at the eastern edge of Severe County approximately four miles north of Interstate 70. These sites are located at the southern end of the area of investigation along Trough Hollow Creek, Saleratus Creek, and Ivie Creek. The sites vary in age from Fremont to Shoshone/Ute, and some are undatable. All samples selected for analysis were taken from hearths or groundstone (Table 1). The emphasis of the...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda J. Scott.

Two prehistoric campsites (32MZ333 and 32MZ334) in the Little Missouri Badlands of western North Dakota were sampled for pollen and macrofloral analysis. These sites are located on ridges above the Little Missouri River. Stratigraphic profiles from both sites were sampled for pollen to provide paleoenvironmental data for the periods that the sites were occupied. Flotation samples were taken from the fill of seven features at 32MZ333 to provide subsistence data. These features range in date...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings. Kathryn Puseman.

Pollen and macrofloral samples were examined from a variety of cultural contexts at the Pueblo of Tesuque. The original proposed research design (SWCA, Inc., 1994) contained many questions that require time transgressive samples to answer. For instance, changes in subsistence patterns may be addressed through the analysis of pollen and macrofloral remains.

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

Pollen, starch granule, and macrofloral analyses were conducted on a single sample collected from Feature 8N8B for the purpose of identifying economic activity associated with this burned rock midden.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings. Kathryn Puseman.

Single pollen and macrofloral samples were collected from the fill of a hearth at site 42Ut920 in southern Utah County, Utah. This site appears to represent a single component Late Prehistoric lithic scatter/hunting camp/tool quarry. Pollen and macrofloral analysis will be used to provide information concerning plant resources utilized by the site occupants.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings. Kathryn Puseman.

Samples from five kivas (West, Central, East, Northeast, and Great) in front of the Great House at Site 42SA22674 in Bluff, Utah, were analyzed for pollen and macrofloral remains. Flotation and botanic samples also were recovered from the Great House, areas of berm/midden around the Great House, the North Wall, and the Plaza. This site has several Chacoan settlement characteristics, including a multi-storied Great House surrounded by an earthen berm/trash midden, a Great Kiva, and a...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Kathryn Puseman. Linda Scott Cummings.

Samples from prehistoric site 42DC823 in northeast Utah were sampled for pollen and/or macrofloral remains. This site has been lithic cross-dated to the late Archaic and possibly the protohistoric, while radiocarbon dates range from 3740 to 840 BP. Pollen and macrofloral analysis is used to provide information concerning possible plant resources utilized by the Archaic occupants of the site.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Kathryn Puseman. Linda Scott Cummings.

Samples from the fill of three concentrations of burned rock and soil interpreted as hearths from sites 32MV318 and 32MV319 were examined for pollen and macrofloral remains. These sites are located in the Dos Republicas project area near Elm Creek, a tributary to the Rio Grande River, in southern Texas. Radiocarbon dates from these three features reflect Middle and Late Archaic occupations. Pollen and macrofloral analyses will be used to provide information concerning plant resources utilized by...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings. Kathryn Puseman.

A single mano, recovered from site 42Ws2556, was submitted for a pollen wash to recover evidence of its use. In addition, fill from a small hearth (Feature 1), was floated to recover evidence of foods processed and/or fuel used. This Southern Paiute site, occupied between AD 1460 and 1640, is located on a terrace on the south side of the Virgin River.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings. Curtis Nepstad-Thornberry.

Pollen and macrofloral samples were collected and examined from Housepit 2 and two isolated features at 48CR 1790, an open camp site containing three housepits and several isolated features. This site represents an Opal phase occupation during the Early Archaic period. Radiocarbon ages of 5300 ± 60 BP and 6320 ± 60 BP were obtained for two housepits, each housepit representing a separate occupation. To date, few housepits have been excavated in the Washakie Basin. Pollen and macrofloral...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings. Kathryn Puseman.

Pollen and macrofloral samples were examined from Hohokam site AZ BB:9:171 (ASM) in the northwest Tucson Basin, Arizona. This site yielded Rincon phase and Rillito phase pottery, indicating primary occupation during the Sedentary Hohokam period.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings. Kathryn Puseman. Jaime Dexter. R.A. Varney.

Samples from archaeological sites for the Las Vegas Wash Project in the Clark County Wetlands Park, southeast Nevada, were selected for archaeobotanic analyses. Pollen analysis was conducted on samples from features at sites 26CK2001, 26CK6007, 26CK6146, and 26CK6147 in an effort to learn how important riparian resources were to the people living at these sites. Additionally, samples from sites 26CK6146 and 26CK6147 were examined for macrofloral remains to further elucidate plant resources...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings. Kathryn Puseman.

Three combined pollen and macrofloral samples were submitted for analysis from sites 42WS4228 and 42WS4230 in Cave Valley, southwest Utah. Site 42WS4228 consists of a sparse lithic and ground stone scatter with ash stains and fire-cracked rock. No ceramics or diagnostic artifacts were recovered. One sample was collected from the lower fill and floor of an unlined hearth. Site 42WS4230 represents a Virgin Anasazi occupation (Pueblo I-Pueblo II), and it contains a lithic and ceramic scatter...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Kathryn Puseman. Linda Scott Cummings.

Sediment samples from three hearths or hearth dump areas at sites 5DA2299 and 5DA2300 were floated to recover macrofloral remains to provide subsistence information concerning plant resources utilized by the occupants of these sites. In addition, a mano found in the hearth/hearth dump at 5DA2299 was washed for pollen, starches, and phytoliths in order to determine plants hat might have been processed using this tool. These sites are located south of Denver near the town of Parker in central...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings. Kathryn Puseman.

Macrofloral analyses were conducted at sites 5LA2403, 5LA2405, and 5LA3491 in Burke Arroyo near Rock Crossing in the Pinyon Canyon Maneuver Area to identify charcoal and any evidence of economic activity. Pollen samples were examined stratigraphically from a control column only at Site 5LA3491 to provide paleoenvironmental data concerning vegetation near the site during its occupation. In addition, this pollen record functions as a control for the interpretation of pollen collected from...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings. Kathryn Puseman. Thomas E. Moutoux.

Pollen and macrofloral analyses were conducted at five sites on the Ancho Canyon Mine property in northeastern New Mexico to answer specific settlement and subsistence questions. This latest study on the Ancho Mine property was designed to examine landscape use. Since the project area is located in the uplands, it is likely that resource procurement reflects this area. Biella and Dorshow (1996b) provide a preliminary landscape analysis that suggests a stable economy and adaptive strategy....

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

Samples from Sites 48SW10888, 48SW10893, 48SW9251, 48SW10233, 48SW10248, and 48SW6454 were analyzed for pollen and macrofloral remains. These sites are part of the Seedskadee National Wildlife Refuge project along the Green River in the Green River Basin of southwest Wyoming. Pollen samples were examined from stratigraphic columns and features at these sites. Vegetation and paleoenvironmental reconstructions were made from stratigraphic pollen records. he stratigraphic pollen records act as...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings. Cynthia Adkins.

Twenty-two pollen and twenty macrofloral samples were collected from fill of structures and pits in the Carson City Freeway Phase 2 project. Fifty features were identified during Phase II testing. Analysis of pollen and macrofloral samples was prioritized to examine primarily structures. Eight radiocarbon dates have been received that indicate occupation between approximately 380 and 1760 BP. This phase of the analysis is considered to be an examination of the pollen and macrofloral records...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Kathryn Puseman. Linda Scott Cummings.

Two sediment samples from the Chalan Monsignor Guerrero Phase III Roadway Expansion and Improvements Project (CMG) in Saipan were examined for pollen and macrofloral remains. These samples represent buried, lower stratigraphic sequences in the eastern end of the project area. Pollen and macrofloral analyses will be used to provide information concerning landscape formation and paleoenvironment, especially the vegetation regime of the former marshes or estuaries in this area. Five charcoal...

DOCUMENT Full-Text R.A. Varney. Kathryn Puseman. Linda Scott Cummings.

Samples from four sites in the Coral Canyon II archaeological project in southwest Utah were examined for pollen and/or macrofloral remains. These sites represent Middle Archaic Late Archaic, and Southern Paiute occupations of the area. Pollen and macrofloral analyses are used to provide subsistence information concerning plant resources available to, and possibly processed by, the various occupants of the sites.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings. Kathryn Puseman.

Three sites near Navajo, Arizona, were examined for their pollen and macrofloral remains as part of the Coronado Railroad Project. Occupations at AZ K:14:32 (ASM) and AZ K:14:33 (ASM) included primarily Basketmaker III and Pueblo I, while the occupation at AZ K:14:35 (ASM) represents Pueblo II. Pollen and macrofloral samples were examined from a variety of features both inside and outside pithouses to define the subsistence base at these sites. In addition, the pollen record assists in...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings. Kathryn Puseman.

Soil samples from a pit structure, a possible field house or outside activity area, and two areas of sheet trash at Site AZ BB:9:166 (ASM) in southern Arizona were sampled for pollen and macrofloral remains. A metate from the pit structure floor also was washed for pollen. Site AZ BB:9:166 (ASM) is a small Hohokam field house locus that appears to have been occupied for a short period of time during the Rincon phase of the Tucson Basin Hohokam, sequence (AD 950- 1150). Pollen and...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings.

Twelve stratigraphic pollen samples were collected from Layer IV in Trench 16 as part of archaeological investigations at the Pago School in Samoa. Layer IV represents clay sediment accumulation between 114 and more than 245 cm below the surface. Radiocarbon ages for this layer span an interval from approximately AD 675-990 to slightly after AD 1160-1300. Pollen analysis of these stratigraphic samples was undertaken to examine prehistoric vegetation in this area. In addition, two samples...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Kathryn Puseman. Linda Scott Cummings.

Samples from the Road Kill site, 42KA4859, in central Kane County, southern Utah, were sampled for pollen and macrofloral remains. This site is a medium-sized Puebloan farmstead with a single linear alignment of storage cists with associated habitation rooms. Occupation appears to have been episodic, based on the complex construction for the alignment combined with evidence for recycling of construction materials and the abandonment of structures on site while use continued elsewhere (Doug...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings. Kathryn Puseman.

Samples from features at four sites in the Sand Hollow Reservoir Project area of Washington County, southwestern Utah, were examined for pollen and macrofloral remains. The majority of these samples were excavated from features at site 42WS2820. Stratigraphic pollen columns from two localities at 42WS2820 were sampled in an effort to define past vegetation and infer paleoenvironmental conditions. Pollen and macrofloral analyses of samples from features at the archaeological sites will be used to...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Kathryn Puseman. Linda Scott Cummings.

Samples from Site AZ:U:10:139 (ASM) for the Tierra Mesa Development Project in Maricopa County, Arizona, were analyzed for pollen and macrofloral remains. This site represents a small Hohokam hamlet with houses-in-pits and associated features. Ceramic artifacts suggest occupation of this site from AD 800-900. Pollen and macrofloral analyses are used to provide information concerning prehistoric diet, paleoenvironmental conditions, and land-use practices at this site to aid in understanding...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings. Kathryn Puseman.

Samples from rock ring features and a roasting pit remnant at Sites AZ L:3:23(ASM), AZ L:3 :31 (ASM) , AZ L:3 :34 (ASM) , andAZ L:3:25 (ASM) were examined for pollen and macrofloral remains. These sites were tested as part of the Topock Data Recovery Project in western Arizona, and are believed to have been utilized from the Archaic through the historic periods. Pollen and macrofloral analyses are used to provide possible subsistence information.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings. Kathryn Puseman.

Five samples from trenches along Ala Moana Boulevard in Waikiki, Hawaii, were examined for both pollen and macrofloral remains. These samples were collected from fishponds that were filled in during the Waikiki Land Reclamation between 1921-1929. Pollen and macrofloral analysis will be used to provide information concerning vegetation near the fishponds.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings. Kathryn Puseman.

Five pollen and ten macrofloral samples were examined from AZ AA:12:968(ASM), the Willow Ridge site. This site was excavated as part of the Willow Ridge Development Project in Marana, Pima County, Arizona. Recovery of San Pedro point types suggests occupation during the San Pedro Phase (1500-800 B.C). Samples were recovered from the fill of storage and roasting pits, a prehistoric canal, and an irregular ash and charcoal stain and examined to provide evidence of economic activity at the...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings. Curtis Nepstad-Thornberry. Thomas E. Moutoux.

Sites AZ V: 13:182, 185, and 186 (ASM) are located directly east of the ASARCO-Ray Mine Complex, in the Dripping Springs Mountains in southcentral Arizona. These multicomponent sites all exhibit evidence of prehistoric and historic activities. Prehistoric components at AZ V: 13:182 and 186 (ASM) are Hohokam. The historic components at these sites represent early mining activities in the region as well as possible Apachean use of the area. Pollen and macrofloral samples were collected from a...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings.

Site 42SA24335 is situated in the Behind-the-rocks area, approximately 10 miles west of Moab, Utah. Five slab-lined cists with ash-stained fill and a circular area of ash-stained soil are the only features recovered at this site. Feature 1 yielded a two sigma calibrated radiocarbon age of 6500 to 6320 BP. Three pollen and six macrofloral samples were examined from 42SA24335. Pollen and macrobotanical analyses were undertaken to identify plant resources that were available to and utilized by...

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

Pollen and macrofloral samples were collected from three sites twelve miles southeast of Wamsutter, Wyoming during the course of archaeological mitigation along the Mapco Pipeline. The sites represent Altithermal, Middle Archaic, and Late Archaic/Late Prehistoric occupations. These sites, 48CR39l, 48CR1929, and 48CR3962, are located within two miles of each other in the Red Desert/Great Divide Basin area of western Carbon County. The present environment at these sites is a mixed desert...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings.

Pollen and macrofloral samples were collected from a vessel at the Hite Site. A corrugated vessel containing pack rat midden remains was located in a crevice at Glen Canyon National Park, where it had been cached. A corn cob was recovered in the vicinity of the vessel. Pollen and macrofloral analyses were conducted in an effort to determine what may have been cached in the vessel.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings.

Pollen and macrofloral analysis at ten sites in Canyonlands National Park was designed to address several different elements of the paleoenvironmental and subsistence records. Pollen samples from the present ground surface were collected to characterize the modern pollen record with respect to the modern vegetation. Stratigraphic samples were collected from three sites to provide an accurate view of paleoenvironmental conditions in the vicinity of Gray's Pasture at Island-in-the-Sky during...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Kathryn Puseman. Linda Scott Cummings.

Pollen and macrofloral samples were examined from six sites and from a core for the Ewa Marina Community Project. These samples represent a stratigraphic core from a wetland area, and bulk pollen and macrobotanical samples from six sites. The bulk samples represent subsurface feature deposits (primarily hearths/ash lenses) and constant volume samples from layers within enclosures and possible habitation or agricultural features. Pollen and macrobotanical analyses were aimed at providing...

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

Archaeological testing and mitigation of the Rio Bonito Site (LA37452), located in the Rio Bonito Valley, produced pollen and macrofloral samples, as well as corn cob fragments for analysis. The site is situated on the eastern bank of the Rio Bonito at an elevation of 1864 m (6120 ft.). The Rio Bonito and its northern tributaries drain the northeastern flanks of the Sierra Blanca Mountains and join the Rio Ruidoso at Hondo approximately 25 km to the southeast. The Rio Bonito Valley floor...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings. PaleoResearch Institute.

Sites 48B81438 and 488H1439 are located in the central portion of the Big Horn Basin in north central Wyoming, in the Five Mile Creek area near the town of Worland. Both pollen and macrofossil samples were analyzed in conjunction with archaeological mitigation. A stratigraphic column, the fill of four features and thirteen groundstone artifacts contribute to the pollen record at 48BH1438. In addition, five features were sampled for macrofloral remains. The stratigraphic pollen samples were...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings.

Pollen and macrofloral samples were collected from two Archaic and two Anasazi sites in the Navajo Mine area of northern New Mexico. The sites are located south of the San Juan River in a marginal area for agricultural pursuits. Marginality of the environment has been a concern in archaeological studies from this area (Hogan and Winter 1983:7-11; Winter and Moore 19--:3-4). Analysis of pollen and macrofloral remains from these sites was oriented toward answering questions within the...

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

Site 48SW5377 is located approximately 5 miles east of Rock Springs, Wyoming along Bitter Creek on a stabilized sand dune. The site appears to represent only a single component, which was dated to 980 + 90 BP. Both pollen and macrofloral analyses were conducted on samples representing the cultural component and several features, while the stratigraphic column was analyzed only for pollen. Pollen analysis of the stratigraphic column was designed to define the paleoenvironment, while both...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings. Kathryn Puseman.

Single pollen and macrofloral samples were collected from Bog 2 for analysis to identify plants growing in this area. William's Prairie is a meadow complex on the upper Crooked River drainage approximately 320 acres in size. Years of overgrazing and nearby logging activities have affected the local vegetation. The decline of hard woods, degradation of beaver habitat, and reduction of water table are most notable. Formerly, William's Prairie was a wet meadow with two main channels running in...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings. Kathryn Puseman. Thomas E. Moutoux.

Fill from a dark organic stain in a sand dune at Site AZ B:1:36(ASM) in northwest Arizona was analyzed for pollen and macrofloral remains. Artifacts recovered from this stain also were washed for pollen. This stain was exposed by a roadcut, and may represent the remains of cultural activities from the Archaic Period. Pollen and macrofloral analyses are used to provide information concerning subsistence activities to help determine eligibility of the site for inclusion in the National...

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

Pollen and macrofloral samples were examined from the floor of a large, straight-sided pit at Site 42SL285 in Salt Lake City, Utah. This site is a Fremont habitation site with pit houses, a burial, animal bone, and artifacts. The floor and sides of the pit (Feature 3) were covered with mud, some of which was partially fired. This pit is believed to have been used initially as a storage pit. A single human male skeleton was found in the pit fill and trash was recovered above that. Pollen and...

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

One hearth at 32NZ721, a stone circle site, was sampled for pollen and macrofloral remains in conjunction with archaeological mitigation. This site is located southwestern North Dakota and consists of 55 stone circle features. Pollen and macrofloral analyses of this single hearth were undertaken as a feasibility study to determine whether or not these types of analyses would shed light on the paleoenvironment and subsistence at the site.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings. Kathryn Puseman.

Two samples from the fill of a hearth recovered during the Apex Road Salvage in Gilpin County, Colorado, were examined for pollen and macrofloral remains. This hearth was found eroding out of a road cut. Pollen and macrofloral analyses are used to provide information concerning plant resources utilized in this hearth.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda J Scott. PaleoResearch Institute.

Two samples were taken from Feature I, a hearth or midden, at SRB2574 for the purpose of identifying subsistence or cultural activity. This site is located in Smizer Gulch on a south-trending finger and small sage flat immediately north of the confluence of Colorow Gulch and the White River at an elevation of 5,650 feet. The area in which the site is located is classified as semi-arid steppe, which is characterized by abundant sunshine, warm summers, and cold winters. The vegetation at the...

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

Pollen and macrofloral analysis were conducted on a single sample from a hearth within site 5AH366 in the Senac Dam project area in conjunction with archaeological testing. In addition, a pollen sample from the present ground surface was examined as a control. This lithic scatter is located on top of a hill overlooking two drainages in Arapahoe County, to the northeast and northwest. Surface artifacts indicate that the site probably functioned as a temporary camp site. Activities appear to...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Kathryn Puseman. Linda Scott Cummings.

Fill from a single, isolated hearth at site 42EM2817 in east-central Utah was examined for pollen and macrofloral remains. This hearth feature was discovered during monitoring of an oil and gas development project in Huntington Canyon. A Fremont habitation site (42EM2808) is located 40 m from the hearth. Pollen and macrofloral analyses are used to provide information concerning plant resources processed in this hearth.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Kathryn Puseman. Linda Scott Cummings.

The fill from a single hearth excavated during mitigation at site 48FR5351 in the Wind River Basin of central Wyoming was examined for pollen and macrofloral remains. This site consists of the hearth (Feature 2) and a tight concentration of fire-cracked rock (Feature 1). Charcoal from the hearth yielded a conventional radiocarbon age of 1520 ± 40 BP, placing use of the hearth at the transition from the Late Archaic (2500-1500 BP) to the Late Prehistoric (1500-200 BP). Pollen and macrofloral...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings. R.A. Varney. Kathryn Puseman.

A single sediment sample from a LaBrean age deposit in Wilkin Quarry near Panaca, Nevada, was submitted for pollen and macrofloral analysis to Identify plants growing In the area.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings. Kathryn Puseman.

Companion pollen and macrofloral samples were collected stratigraphically from Unit 4 inside Kelvin's Cave (10LN93), a lava tube, to provide information concerning local vegetation and environment in the vicinity of the cave during the time it was used and sediment accumulated. Bone recovered from the deepest sediments in Kelvin's Cave, just above the cave floor in units immediately adjacent to Unit 10, have yielded radiocarbon ages ranging between 12,160 ± 60 BP to 16,260 ± 80 BP,...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda J Scott. PaleoResearch Institute.

Pollen and macrofloral analyses were conducted at site 32MZ727 in conjunction with archaeological mitigation. This stone circle site is located on an isolated hill in the breaks overlooking the Missouri River This analysis was undertaken for the purpose of identifying any pollen or floral remains associated with cultural activity.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings. Kathryn Puseman.

Site LA 79937 is located close to the Monte Sereno site, LA 79934, in Santa Fe, New Mexico, which includes several shallow stain or thermal features, a ceramic sherd, and lithic scatter on a ridge top. Radiocarbon ages in the 1400s obtained from features at the Monte Sereno Site indicate a Pueblo IV occupation there. No radiocarbon date is available from LA 79937. Pollen and macrofloral analysis of a thermal feature at LA 79937 was undertaken to recover evidence of subsistence.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings.

The fill of a single post feature recovered from a terminal Mississippian house dating approximately 1490 + 60 BP was examined for pollen and macrofloral remains. Pollen and macrofloral analyses were undertaken in an effort to identify any possible use of this feature after the post had been removed, or to provide evidence of food processing activities within this house.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Kathryn Puseman. Linda Scott Cummings.

Samples from along the Middle Fork of the John Day River in east-central Oregon were collected for a study of fluvial geomorphology. A total of 27 detrital charcoal samples were submitted for identification, and three bulk soil samples were examined for pollen and macrofloral remains. These samples were recovered from soil pit or natural bank exposures along the river. Macrofloral, including charcoal, and pollen identifications will be used to provide information concerning plant taxa that may...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Kathryn Puseman. Linda Scott Cummings.

Samples were collected along the Middle Fork of the John Day River in east-central Oregon for a study of fluvial geomorphology. A total of 32 detrital charcoal/wood samples were submitted for identification, and 11 bulk soil samples were examined for pollen and macrofloral remains. These samples were recovered from soil pit or natural bank exposures along the river. After successful completion of this phase of the study, an additional eight pollen, eleven macrofloral, and two botanic samples...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings.

Pollen sanples from three burials at Site 5MT3, Yellow Jacket, Colorado,,, were examined to provide information concerning burial practices. One sample from Burial 80-2 was also examined for macrofloral remains. These burials represent interment of three males and one female in PII and PHI times. Pollen and macrofloral analysis will examine evidence of inclusion of foods with the burials, or the presence of plants that may have been used for other purposes.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Kathryn Puseman. Linda Scott Cummings.

Fill from a hearth at Site 32MZ1184, North Dakota, was examined for pollen and macrofloral remains. The feature was exposed in the bottom of a two-track road that runs across the site. Two complete Oxbow points from about 5000 BP were discovered at this site. Pollen and macrofloral analyses may provide information concerning feature function and subsistence.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Kathryn Puseman. Linda Scott Cummings.

Sediment samples from features at Late Archaic Sites 42WN1975 and 42WN2150 in south-central Utah were examined for pollen and macrofloral remains. Pollen and macrofloral analyses will be used to provide information concerning plants available to and utilized by the Late Archaic occupants of these sites.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings. Kathryn Puseman.

Samples from features and cultural strata at Kalabera Cave in northeast Saipan were examined for pollen and macrofloral remains. AMS radiocarbon dates were obtained on charcoal and other charred botanic remains, resulting in dates ranging from 685 ± 25 RCYBP to 3095 ± 40 RCYBP. Pollen and macrofloral analyses will be used to determine plant resources utilized by the cave occupants and to help establish a time line for use of the cave. Pollen samples also were collected stratigraphically...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda J Scott. PaleoResearch Institute.

Pollen and macrofloral analyses were conducted at sites 5RB2727, SRB2728, and SRB2729 in conjunction with archaeological mitigation. These three sites are located in the Coal Oil Basin just west of Rangely in Rio Blanco County. Analysis concentrated on features for the purpose of identifying any pollen or floral remains associated with cultural activity and to establish, if possible, whether the features were cultural or natural. The features sampled appear to be little more than dispersed...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Kathryn Puseman. Linda Scott Cummings.

Test excavations at Site 5AM631 uncovered a buried firepit (Feature L) that was sampled for pollen and macrofloral remains. This site contained both historic and prehistoric components. The prehistoric component consists of a lithic debitage, groundstone, and ceramic scatter, as well as cultural features visible on the surface. Ceramics and projectile points suggest a Plains Woodland occupation. Pollen and macrofloral analyses are used to provide information concerning foods processed in...

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

Site 5RB2372 consists of a scatter of hearths located on the third alluvial terrace on the west side of Douglas Creek. The vegetation in the vicinity of this site consists of sagebrush (Artemisia), saltbush (Atriplex, a Cheno-am), mormon tea (Ephedra), greasewood (Sarcobatus), and tumbleweed (Salsola). The vegetation near Douglas Creek changes rapidly through various zones as the elevation increases from the creek to the pinon/juniper woodlands (Creasman 1981). Four hearths were selected...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings. Kathryn Puseman.

Pollen and macrofloral samples were examined from the fill of a hearth at site 48SW1644 in southwestern Wyoming. This site exhibits Fremont rock art and is situated at the base of two sandstone outcrops west of the Green River. A test unit uncovered the hearth containing a large quantity of fire-cracked rock. A radiocarbon age of 1240 ± 90 BP is reported for this hearth. Pollen and macrofloral samples were collected to identify any plants that might have been processed in the hearth. In...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Kathryn Puseman. R.A. Varney.

Site 5EA2145 consists of an isolated hearth exposed in a road cutbank west of McCoy, Colorado. Fill from the hearth was examined for pollen and macrofloral remains. The hearth had been heavily disturbed by road maintenance activities and was in danger of being destroyed; therefore, a salvage operation was undertaken to obtain radiocarbon, subsistence, and paleoclimatic samples. Charred material from the hearth yielded a calibrated radiocarbon date of 3250 ± 60 years B.P. (Beta 180108),...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Kathryn Puseman. Linda Scott Cummings.

Fill from a slab-lined hearth at site 24CB1861 in southern Montana was examined for pollen and macrofloral remains. Fremont pottery was found on the site surface, and Rose Spring projectile points were found associated with the hearth. The feature yielded a conventional radiocarbon age of 1270 ± 70 BP. Pollen and macrofloral analyses are used to provide information concerning plant resources available to and utilized by the site occupants.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings. Kathryn Puseman.

Fill from a hearth associated with a small, jacal Anasazi surface structure at Site 42SA22502 was sampled for pollen and macrofloral remains. Charcoal from the hearth fill is believed to represent the last use of the hearth around AD 540, about the time of the Basketmaker II to Basketmaker III transition. Pollen and macrofloral analyses are used to determine plants processed in this hearth.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Kathryn Puseman. Linda Scott Cummings.

Fill from a hearth at Site 45FR5318 was examined for pollen and macrofloral remains. This site is a small prehistoric site with five hearth features and four concentrations of fire-cracked rock located along Cottonwood Creek in the Wind River Basin of central Wyoming. The presence of oxidized cobbles found on the surface of the hearths along with the absence of lithic debris at this site suggests that it might have been a plant processing site. Pollen and macrofloral samples were collected...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Kathryn Puseman. Linda Scott Cummings. R.A. Varney. Jaime Dexter.

A single fill sample from a hearth at site 06-006-01 in Carbon County, Wyoming, was examined for pollen and macrofloral remains. This hearth was discovered while monitoring a construction project. This feature yielded a radiocarbon age of 8580 ± 60 BP, indicating an Early Archaic occupation of the area. Pollen and macrofloral analysis will be used to provide a description of local vegetation and subsistence information concerning plant resources utilized at this site.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings. Kathryn Puseman.

Fill from an eroding hearth/roasting pit (Feature 1) on the south shore of Yellowstone Lake (site 48YE252) in Yellowstone National Park was analyzed for pollen and macrofloral remains. A calibrated radiocarbon date of 100 BC to AD 140 (8eta-150250) for Feature 1 and an abundance of Pelican Lake artifacts at the site indicate a Late Archaic Pelican Lake occupation. Pollen and macrofloral analyses will be used to provide information concerning fuel woods and possible plant resources processed...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda J. Scott. PaleoResearch Institute. D. Kate Aasen.

Pollen and macrofloral samples were collected from features at two sites in Sweetwater County, Wyoming in conjunction with archaeological mitigation. These sites are located approximately 8 miles north of Point of Rocks, Wyoming, or 2 miles west of the Jim Bridger Power Plant. Sites 48SW2358 and 48SW2360 are located in upland settings separated by an intermittent drainage. These sites appear to represent a more or less continuous distribution of features and artifacts. Site 48SW2360...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings. PaleoResearch Institute.

Pollen and macrofloral samples were collected from hearths at five sites located along the Exxon Horseshoe Creek Project. Located in the interior of the Wind River Basin, in central Wyoming, these sites are situated at the contact between the Upper Sonoran and Transition Life Zones. The samples were collected to address subsistence activities at these sites during occupation.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings.

Pollen and macrofloral samples were collected from a Dinetah phase burial north of Farmington. Radiocarbon ages suggest date ranges between AD1430 and AD1660. Pollen and macrofloral analyses were undertaken to assist in shedding light on burial practices of that period. Sample collec tion emphasized the potential of recovering ritually introduced pollen or foods, as well as consumed foods. Care was taken to provide adequate con trol samples from the burial feature to establish ranges of...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings. Kathryn Puseman.

Three pollen and macrofloral samples were recovered from an organic layer (II) at Site 50- 80-14-5829 at the Marine Corps Base Hawaii on the Kane'ohe Bay, Oahu. A single pollen sample was removed from inorganic material below the organic layer (III). Pollen and macrofloral samples were examined to provide information concerning vegetation growing in this area.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Kathryn Puseman. Linda Scott Cummings. Jaime Dexter.

Samples from midden deposits at prehistoric site CA-SDI-10,920, along the shoreline of Lake Hodges in southern California, were examined for pollen and macrofloral remains. This site contains milling features, midden deposits, and numerous surface artifacts. The milling features yielded 64 milling elements including slicks, mortars, and cupules. Pollen and macrofloral analyses of the midden deposits will be used to provide information concerning plant resources available to and utilized by...

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

Pollen and macrofloral analyses were undertaken in the North Antelope Creek Study Area in the Eastern Powder River Basin of Wyoming as part of the Phase II archaeological mitigation program. The sites selected for pollen analysis include 48C0637, 48CAl13, 48CA1042/l046, and 48CA1049. Stratigraphic columns were sampled at 48CAl13 and 48CA1042/l046 to provide paleoenvironmental data. At 48C0637 four hearths (Features B, C, 20, and 51) were analyzed for their pollen content to provide...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings. Kathryn Puseman.

Pipeline construction on the Meridian Oil, Inc., MA-7 Loop uncovered one bell-shaped cist at Site LA 98866, New Mexico. This is an isolated cist of unknown culture. Fill from the cist was sampled for pollen and macrofloral remains to provide subsistence information.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings. Kathryn Puseman.

A single sediment sample was examined for both pollen and macrofloral remains. No report was requested. Methods, counts, and observations are presented below.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings. Kathryn Puseman. Thomas E. Moutoux.

Organic material around a ballast stone near the midship area of an early eighteenth century vessel was examined for pollen and macrofloral remains that would contribute to an interpretation of the origin of this ship.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings. PaleoResearch Institute.

Pollen and macrofloral remains of three packrat middens, an olla, resin from an olla lid, and several control samples were analyzed in conjunction with archaeological mitigation of two sites, AZR:I0:30(ASM) and AZR:I0:31(ASM), located near Blythe, Arizona. The data were collected for the purpose of interpreting the paleoenvironment at the time of occupation. In addition, data were sought to identify the contents of the two ollas from different sites. Very little is presently known about...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Kathryn Puseman. Linda Scott Cummings.

Samples from an outlying pit associated with a small Pueblo habitation site were examined for pollen and macrofloral remains. Pottery recovered from the site suggests occupation during the Pueblo II and early Pueblo III periods. Part of a Dolores Corrugated vessel was discovered in the feature, suggesting that the pit is associated with the late end of the occupation, approximately A.D. 1100- 1150. Pollen and macrofloral analyses are used to provide prehistoric subsistence information.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings. Kathryn Puseman.

Samples from the fill of three roasting pits at Site 5RB3042 in northwest Colorado were examined for pollen and/or macrofloral remains. These pits all contained fire-cracked rock and charcoal. Pollen and macrofloral analyses are used to provide information concerning possible plants processed in these features.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings. Kathryn Puseman.

Samples from roasting pits at Sites AZ U: 15:227 (ASM) and AZ U: 15:229 (ASM) were examined for pollen and macrofloral remains. These sites are areas of roasting pit and artifact scatter that appear to be related to Hohokam specialized agricultural production. The features at Site AZ U: 15:227 (ASM) were Classic period Hohokam roasting pits, while Feature 1 at Site AZ U: 15:229 (ASM) was a deflated roasting pit dating to the Colonial period. Pollen and macrofloral analyses may provide...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Kathryn Puseman. Linda Scott Cummings.

Samples from the fill of a roasting-pit at Site AZ BB:9:144 (ASM) were examined for pollen and macrofloral remains. The roasting pit is believed to have been used sporadically during the Rincon Phase of the Tucson Basin Hohokam Period (A.D. 1090-1125) , based on ceramic types recovered. Pollen and macrofloral analyses may provide information concerning possible plants processed in this roasting pit.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings. Kathryn Puseman.

Four pollen samples and one macrofloral sample were examined from a female burial at site 42SV2543. The burial was discovered during trenching operation on Main Street in Salina, Utah. The burial dates to the Fremont culture and yielded a conventional radiocarbon date of 1070 ± 40 BP, with a two sigma calibrated age range of A.D. 890 to 1020.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings. Kathryn Puseman.

Site 42Ws4283, situated in the St. George Basin of southwestern Utah, represents a Southern Paiute occupation. A 2-sigma radiocarbon age of AD 1420-1650 is reported for this site. Three pollen and one macrofloral samples were examined from a deflated hearth, a mano, and the modern ground surface to describe vegetation in the vicinity at the time of occupation and also identify plants processed in the hearth and with the mano.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings. Kathryn Puseman.

Samples from a Pueblo II pitstructure/kiva at Site 5MT3873 were analyzed for pollen and charred macrofloral remains. This site is a multicomponent Basketmaker Ill/Pueblo II site. Pollen and macrofloral analyses are used to provide information concerning possible plant resources utilized in the pitstructure/kiva.

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings. Kathryn Puseman.

Samples from several features at Site 42WS325 in southwest Utah were examined for pollen and macrofloral remains. This site is a prehistoric Virgin Anasazi settlement with semisubterranean pit structures, surface rooms, isolated hearths, and a trash midden that appears to be a multicomponent site with a transitional Basketmaker III to Pueblo I component (A.D. 650-750) and a Pueblo II component (A.D. 1110 to 1150). Pollen and macrofloral analyses are used to address questions concerning plant...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings. Kathryn Puseman.

Seventeen pollen samples were examined from the C&A site (5DA1687), a Plains Woodland site located near an intermittent drainage in DA County, Colorado. Pollen samples were collected stratigraphically through deposits at the site to identify past vegetation communities and provide information concerning the paleoenvironment. In addition, four pollen samples were examined from sediments beneath large rocks in excavation units in Blocks A and B. A small burial pit containing remains of two...

DOCUMENT Full-Text Linda Scott Cummings. Kathryn Puseman.

Pollen and macrofloral remains were examined from deposits in Hot Springs Cave, site 42JB7, just west of Fish Springs Marsh in western Utah. This site represents a small cave formed during the Late Pleistocene along the Provo level of Lake Bonneville. Fish Springs marsh is believed to have formed around 10,500 b.p., and occupation of the cave is thought to have started at about this time. Pollen and macrofloral samples, including individual charcoal and botanic samples, were collected from...