POLLEN, PHYTOLITH, MACROFLORAL, AND CHARCOAL ANALYSES IN THE JEWETT MINE PROJECT AREA, TEXAS

Author(s): Linda Scott Cummings

Year: 1990

Summary

Fossil pollen, phytoliths, macrofloral remains, and charcoal from archeological and geological sites at the Jewett Mine, Texas are analyzed in this appendix. Pollen analysis provides an overview of regional vegetation and hence paleoenvironments for this area. Pollen columns were collected at an alluvial geological site in the Buffalo Creek floodplain and at an archeological site, 41LN106, in the Lambs Creek drainage for this reconstruction. Companion phytolith samples were collected from the same profiles, and they supply information concerning the mixture of grasses within the local prairie. Together the pollen and phytolith records provide a look at both local and regional vegetation in the project area. Several samples were collected from the present ground surface to evaluate the modern pollen and phytolith records relative to present vegetation.

Cite this Record

POLLEN, PHYTOLITH, MACROFLORAL, AND CHARCOAL ANALYSES IN THE JEWETT MINE PROJECT AREA, TEXAS. Linda Scott Cummings. PRI Technical Report ,1990-027. 1990 ( tDAR id: 375218) ; doi:10.6067/XCV89W0DNN

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Keywords

Culture
Late Archaic • Middle Archaic • Plains Woodland • Woodland

Material
Ground Stone • Macrobotanical • Pollen • Sediment

Site Name
41FT334 • 41FT89 • 41LN106 • 41LN247 • Bottoms Site • Buffalo Creek • Moccasin Springs Site • Rena Branch Site

Site Type
Geological/Geoarchaeology Context

Investigation Types
Data Recovery / Excavation

General
90-027 • Charcoal Identification • Macrobotanical Analysis • Phytolith Analysis • Pollen Analysis

Geographic Keywords
Freestone (County) • Leon (County) • Texas (State / Territory)

Spatial Coverage

min long: -96.47; min lat: 30.98 ; max long: -95.659; max lat: 31.996 ;

Individual & Institutional Roles

Contact(s): PaleoResearch Institute

Record Identifiers

PRI Technical Report(s): 90-027

Notes

Rights & Attribution: PRI Contract No. 90-027 is Appendix B in Ecavations at the Bottoms, Rena Branch, and Moccasin Springs Sites, Jewett Mine Project, Freestone and Leon Counties, Texas by Ross C. Fields, L. Wayne Klement, C. Britt Bousman, Steve A. Tomka, Eloise F. Gadus, and Margaret A. Howard. Reports of Investigations Number 82. Published in 1991.

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