Late Woodland Zea Mays at the Vintroux Site, Putnam County, West Virginia

Author(s): Charles M. Niquette; Gary D. Crites

Year: 1993

Summary

The contents of a freshly plowed out feature at the Vintroux site (46PU69) produced cultural materials diagnostic of the late Late Woodland period. A pair of radiocarbon dates obtained from the feature were consistent with the artifacts recovered. Significantly, the feature also produced over 33 grams of Zea mays. The maize is described and metric attributes are presented. The single feature at Vintroux produced a greater quantity and better preserved maize than has been recovered from all other Middle Ohio Valley Late Woodland sites combined.

Cite this Record

Late Woodland Zea Mays at the Vintroux Site, Putnam County, West Virginia. Charles M. Niquette, Gary D. Crites. Lexington, Kentucky: Cultural Resource Analysts, Inc. 1993 ( tDAR id: 391941) ; doi:10.6067/XCV8FN1794

Keywords

Culture
Late Woodland • Woodland

Material
Dating Sample • Macrobotanical

Site Name
46PU69 • Vintroux site

Site Type
Archaeological Feature • Artifact Scatter • Midden

Investigation Types
Data Recovery / Excavation • Site Evaluation / Testing

General
Zea Mays

Geographic Keywords
Fraziers Bottom • Kanawha River • Putnam County (County) • West Virginia (State / Territory)

Temporal Coverage

Calendar Date: 1170 to 1290 (C14 Calibrated)

Spatial Coverage

min long: -81.978; min lat: 38.311 ; max long: -81.611; max lat: 38.667 ;

Individual & Institutional Roles

Contributor(s): Cultural Resource Analysts, Inc.

Collaborator(s): Lower Kanawha Chapter of the West Virginia Archeological Society

Notes

General Note: Also published as Niquette, Charles M. and Gary D. Crites 1993a Late Woodland Zea Mays at the Vintroux Site, Putnam County, West Virginia. West Virginia Archeologist 45(1&2):31-34.

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