POLLEN, STARCH, PHYTOLlTH, PARASITE, AND MACROFLORAL ANALYSES FOR THE 2ND AVENUE ARCHAEOLOGICAL STUDIES, COLUMBUS, GEORGIA

Summary

Excavations of historic features located on Blocks 10 and 15 for the 2nd Avenue Columbus,

Georgia, site yielded samples that were examined for pollen, starch, phytoliths, and/or macrofloral

remains to provide information concerning plants processed and used. Parasite analysis of

possible privy fill will lend insight into the health of the historic site occupants. The temporal focus

for this study is approximately 1828 to the 1860s. One specific question to be addressed by these

analyses is whether or not Feature 229 on Lot 191 was a privy or a pit. Other general questions

regard the relationships between early traders and settlers and the Creek Indians, who lived in this

area prior to the establishment of Columbus and who were slowly pushed across the

Chattahoochee River into Alabama during the town's early years. Some samples represent

features used by and middens accumulated by African American slaves and later servants. White

textile mill workers lived in a tenement on Lot 191 beginning in 1852, while city leaders, including

Henry Benning, lived on Lot 194 between approximately 1866 and 1874.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• PaleoResearch Institute

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