INFRA-RED ANALYSIS OF SANDSTONE VESSEL FRAGMENTS, SITE 46KA142, WEST VIRGINIA

Author(s): Linda Scott Cummings; Kim Kral

Year: 2007

Summary

Site 46Ka142, the Burning Spring Branch site, is situated on a terrace above the

Kanawha River in Kanawha County, West Virginia. This multi-component site contains

remnants of a 19th-century domestic house and salt furnace within the plowzone. The upper

portions of the unplowed remainder of the A-horizon contained a Late Prehistoric village and

portions of a Late Woodland settlement. Six sandstone vessel fragments were recovered from

a site component dating to a transition between the Late Archaic and Early Woodland, which

was buried more deeply within the A-horizon. These six vessel fragments are part of an

assemblage of over 250 fragments, many of which could be reassembled to form more

complete vessels. FTIR analysis was conducted on these fragments in an effort to identify

foods that might have been cooked in the vessels.

Cite this Record

INFRA-RED ANALYSIS OF SANDSTONE VESSEL FRAGMENTS, SITE 46KA142, WEST VIRGINIA. Linda Scott Cummings, Kim Kral. 2007 ( tDAR id: 379473) ; doi:10.6067/XCV869731Z

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