POLLEN AND MACROFLORAL ANALYSES AT THE RABBIT-IN-THE-MOON SITE, 5MT9168, SOUTHWEST COLORADO

Summary

The Rabbit-in-the-Moon Site, 5MT9168, in southwestern Colorado represents

a Basketmaker III habitation with a palisade that encloses a primary pithouse,

a secondary pithouse, storage features, and pit structures remodeled from pit

storage units. A ramada was located outside the palisade. Samples from the

pithouses, storage pits, and surface storage structures were examined for pollen

and macrofloral remains. In addition, macrobotanical samples and adobe samples

from these features also were analyzed. Because four of the larger features

appear to have been burned simultaneously by highly oxygenated fires, the site

is believed to have been swept by a fire, possibly during the summer. Two of the

surviving pit storage units appear to have been remodeled for expedient use as

dwellings, then abandoned in an orderly fashion.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• PaleoResearch Institute

Record Identifiers

PRI Technical Report(s): 93-096

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