MACROFLORAL, POLLEN AND PARASITE ANALYSIS, AND WOOD IDENTIFICATION OF PRIVY SAMPLES FROM SITE 13DB899, DUBUQUE COUNTY, IOWA

Author(s): Linda Scott Cummings; Peter Kováčik

Year: 2016

Summary

Site 13DB889 is situated within a historic, urban neighborhood along Rhomberg and Kniest Streets in the City of Dubuque, Iowa. The nineteenth to twenty-first century homes were occupied predominantly by working-class, German Catholic residents (Leah D. Rogers, personal communication August 10, 2016). Several privies, possibly used into the 1910s, were sampled for pollen, parasite, and macrofloral analyses. Pollen and macrofloral analyses of privy fill provide information concerning foods eaten and trash disposed by the historic site occupants. Parasite analysis lends insight into the health of the privy users. Samples from wood-lined privies (500 Block of Rhomberg, Features 1 and 4, and 505-507 Rhomberg, Feature 4, Sample 5) were examined for their contents and also to identify wood used to line the privies.

Cite this Record

MACROFLORAL, POLLEN AND PARASITE ANALYSIS, AND WOOD IDENTIFICATION OF PRIVY SAMPLES FROM SITE 13DB899, DUBUQUE COUNTY, IOWA. Linda Scott Cummings, Peter Kováčik. PRI Technical Report ,2016-083. 2016 ( tDAR id: 427269) ; doi:10.6067/XCV88P62KM

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Keywords

Culture
Historic

Material
Pollen • Privy • Sediment

Site Name
13DB889

Investigation Types
Data Recovery / Excavation

General
Charcoal Identification • Historic Privy • Macrofloral Analysis • Parasite Analysis • Pollen Analysis

Geographic Keywords
Dubuque • Dubuque County (County) • Iowa (State / Territory) • Kniest Street • Rhomberg Street

Temporal Keywords
Historic

Spatial Coverage

min long: -91.063; min lat: 42.208 ; max long: -90.409; max lat: 42.666 ;

Individual & Institutional Roles

Contact(s): PaleoResearch Institute

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