POLLEN, STARCH, AND PHYTOLITH ANALYSIS FOR A ROOT CELLAR AT THE EDEN HOUSE SITE (31BR52), NORTH CAROLINA

Author(s): Linda Scott Cummings; Thomas E. Moutoux

Year: 1997

Summary

A single soil sample from the Eden House Site (31BR32) on the North Carolina Coastal

Plain was examined for pollen and phytoliths. Between the 1670s and 1740s this area was a

plantation owned by families of European extraction, probably all English. The soil sample was

collected from a root cellar in what was probably a quarter for enslaved African Americans.

Evidence for cultivated food crops was sought in the pollen and phytolith records.

Cite this Record

POLLEN, STARCH, AND PHYTOLITH ANALYSIS FOR A ROOT CELLAR AT THE EDEN HOUSE SITE (31BR52), NORTH CAROLINA. Linda Scott Cummings, Thomas E. Moutoux. 1997 ( tDAR id: 378164) ; doi:10.6067/XCV8639P3M

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Keywords

Culture
Historic

Material
Pollen

Site Name
Eden House Site

Investigation Types
Data Recovery / Excavation

General
pollen, phytoliths

Geographic Keywords
North Carolina

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