POLLEN, MACROFLORAL, PROTEIN RESIDUE ANALYSIS, AND AMS RADIOCARBON DATING AT SITE 42GR3164 ON THE PROFESSOR VALLEY RANCH, SOUTHEAST UTAH

Summary

A soil column at site 42GR3164 in the Professor Valley Ranch, southeast Utah, was

sampled for pollen and macrofloral remains. The soil column was placed in an area that is believed

to have been the location where a large comer-notched knife made of gray chert was previously

found by workers installing an irrigation pipe in a hayfield, and it appeared to be at the edge of

prehistoric site 42GR3164, which had been recorded at an earlier date. The irrigation pipe trench

was re-opened, and a concentration of charcoal and fire-cracked rock was exposed. The soil

column was taken from the trench wall, adjacent to the charcoal-rock concentration. Fill from the

charcoal-rock concentration and from a light greenish deposit surrounding a pebble found in the

trench wall also were sampled for pollen and macrofloral remains. The corner-notched knife and

another artifact previously found on the surface of the site were submitted for protein residue

analysis.

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• PaleoResearch Institute

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