STRATIGRAPHIC POLLEN AND PHYTOLITH ANALYSIS OF SOILS FROM 32BI332, BILLINGS COUNTY, NORTH DAKOTA

Summary

The Rena Wynne Site, 32BI332, is located on an old terrace on the west

side of the Little Missouri River in the Little Missouri Badlands. A

stratigraphic column in which two paleosols were identified was sampled for

pollen and phytolith analysis at 5 cm intervals. This yielded a total of 13

pollen and 13 phytolith samples. The two paleosols correspond to pollen

samples 5, 6, and 9. A slab-lined hearth radiocarbon dated to 1370 + 165 BP

was excavated within 1 m of the soil column. The hearth, which was located

stratigraphically between the two paleosols, was intrusive into that level,

and the date is correlated with pollen sample 6 at the bottom of the

paleosol (Arleyn Simon, personal communication, October 6, 1983).

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