POLLEN ANALYSIS AND CHARCOAL IDENTIFICATION OF SAMPLES FROM SITE 48CR10499, CARBON COUNTY, WYOMING

Author(s): Linda Scott Cummings; Peter Kováčik

Year: 2017

Summary

Site 48CR10499, located in south-central Wyoming in the eastern portion of the Washakie Basin, is a hunter-gatherer open camp exhibiting evidence of two occupations, including one Early Archaic housepit. Component 2 yielded ten radiocarbon dates ranging from 5720 to 5180 BP, indicating an Opal Phase occupation. Component 1 comprises two distinct open camps dating to 1820 and 1530 BP. Two sediment samples collected from each of the two cultural components were examined for pollen to provide evidence of local vegetation at the time of both occupations. Two thermal basins, one from each component, were examined for pollen in an effort to obtain a signature representing cooking. In addition, one metate wash was submitted for pollen analysis to identify the plants ground. Three containers containing a few seeds each were submitted for macrofloral identification.

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POLLEN ANALYSIS AND CHARCOAL IDENTIFICATION OF SAMPLES FROM SITE 48CR10499, CARBON COUNTY, WYOMING. Linda Scott Cummings, Peter Kováčik. PRI Technical Report ,2017-039. 2017 ( tDAR id: 438733) ; doi:10.6067/XCV8W098VJ

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Keywords

Culture
Archaic • Early Archaic • Opal Phase

Material
Charcoal • Ground Stone • Macrobotanical • Pollen • Sediment

Site Name
48CR10499

Investigation Types
Data Recovery / Excavation

General
17-039 • Botanic Identification • Charcoal Identification • Pollen Analysis

Geographic Keywords
Carbon County (County) • South-Central Wyoming • Washakie Basin • Wyoming (State / Territory)

Temporal Keywords
Archaic

Spatial Coverage

min long: -107.748; min lat: 40.972 ; max long: -105.606; max lat: 42.22 ;

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