POLLEN AND STARCH ANALYSIS OF SAMPLES FROM SITE CA-MRP-0442/H, TENAYA LAKE, YOSEMITE, CALIFORNIA

One groundstone and accompanying soil control sample were submitted for pollen and starch analysis from rockshelter site CA-MRP-0042/H in Mariposa County, California. The rock shelter opens to the west. The site is situated north of Tenaya Lake in a glacially scoured granitic basin west of the Sierra Nevada crest (Sonny Montague, personal communication, March 6, 2013). The surrounding vegetation includes lodgepole pine (Pinus contorta), western white pine (Pinus monticola), mountain hemlock (Tsuga mertensiana), Sierra juniper (Juniperus occidentalis), red fir (Abies magnifica), Jeffrey pine (Pinus jeffreyi), huckleberry oak (Quercus vacciniifolia), and sedges (Carex sp.). Wet meadows are present along the Tenaya Creek (0.7 miles to the southwest). Pollen and starch remains will provide information concerning plant resources processed with the groundstone tool.