POLLEN AND MACROFOSSIL ANALYSIS OF AN ARCHAIC SITE, 5EA484, IN WEST -CENTRAL COLORADO

Summary

Three pollen and three soil samples from an Archaic encampment

(5EA484) near Basalt in Eagle County were submitted for analysis. Site

5EA484 is located in a pinon/juniper forest at an elevation of 6810 feet

along a bench above Blue Creek in the Roaring Fork River Valley in west central

Colorado. The pollen samples were taken from the present ground

surface, from the fill of a slab-lined roasting pit or firehearth (F eature 2),

and from a layer 20 cm below the present surface. The soil samples

represent an unlined firehearth (F eature 1) and two slab-lined roasting

pits or firehearths (F eatures 2 and 5). Unfortunately, the only feature (F.

2) that was sampled for both pollen and macrofossil content contained an

insufficient quantity of pollen for analysis. It was hoped that these two

analyses would reflect prehistoric subsistence patterns.

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• PaleoResearch Institute

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