POLLEN AND PHYTOLITH ANALYSIS OF SEDIMENTS FROM 23DU227, SOUTHEAST MISSOURI

Summary

Site 23DU227, located in Dunklin County, southeastern Missouri, is

situated in a present-day soybean field. The area surrounding the site

includes, in addition to the fields, a man-made irrigation ditch (Ditch 19)

and Crowley's Ridge, which is covered with an oak-hickory complex. This

forested ridge supports an assortment of broadleaf trees including white

oak, northern red oak, chinquapin oak, walnut, butternut, beech, tulip tree,

cucumber tree, basswood, and cedar. The ridge is currently surrounded by

fields in which soybean and corn crops are rotated. Lumbering activities in

the late l800s and early 1900s cleared the formerly forested area of black

walnut, cottonwood, willow, sassafrass, hackberry, boxelder, pawpaw,

hickory, and several varieties of oak (Jeyne Bennett, personal

communication, September 1983). Pollen and phytolith analyses were

undertaken at this site to evaluate the prehistoric environment and to

assist in the determination of site significance.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• PaleoResearch Institute

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