Burned Earth Without Cooking Stones- Cultural or Natural? Feature Deposition, Ethnobotany, and Analysis in Upland Puget Sound, Western Washington

Summary

Concentrations of burned earth, cooking stones, a shallow basin profile, and sometimes faunal remains are often associated with Puget Sound hearth features which were commonly used for open-air cooking. Discrete areas of burned earth lacking concentrations of cooking stones have not received as much cultural feature recognition or interpretation. This poster explores the function of one in situ concentration of charcoal adjacent to a dense area of cooking stones at an upland camp in the Puget Sound basin of northwest North America to determine one of three scenarios. Is this feature a steaming pit in two parts, a dismantled pavement with a primary and secondary context, or a naturally burned tree near a secondary deposit of cooking stones? Deposition, ethnobotany, and feature analysis are used to examine the function of Feature 1 at 45KI1176.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Society for American Archaeology 82nd Annual Meeting, Vancouver, BC (2017)

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Abstract Id(s): 15161