PHYTOLITH ANALYSIS OF AN ADOBE BRICK FROM THE 1804 CHURCH AT SANTA INES MISSION, CALIFORNIA

Author(s): Linda Scott Cummings

Year: 2002

Summary

The primary purpose in examining an adobe brick from the 1804 Church at Santa Ines

Mission was to search for phytolith evidence that a threshing sledge was used. A stone-floored

threshing floor was observed at the site (Tremaine 1992). Costello notes (personal communication,

February 2001) that the threshing floor might not date to the first year of the mission, which is

represented by this brick. Therefore, digestion of a small quantity of adobe brick was undertaken

to provide a sample of the phytoliths contained in the brick.

Cite this Record

PHYTOLITH ANALYSIS OF AN ADOBE BRICK FROM THE 1804 CHURCH AT SANTA INES MISSION, CALIFORNIA. Linda Scott Cummings. 2002 ( tDAR id: 378681) ; doi:10.6067/XCV8DN44G7

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Keywords

Culture
Historic

Site Name
Church at Santa Ines Mission

Investigation Types
Data Recovery / Excavation

General
Adobe Brick • Phytolith Analysis

Geographic Keywords
California

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