POLLEN AND MACROFLORAL ANALYSES AT THE RABBIT-IN-THE-MOON SITE, 5MT9168, SOUTHWEST COLORADO

The Rabbit-in-the-Moon Site, 5MT9168, in southwestern Colorado represents
a Basketmaker III habitation with a palisade that encloses a primary pithouse,
a secondary pithouse, storage features, and pit structures remodeled from pit
storage units. A ramada was located outside the palisade. Samples from the
pithouses, storage pits, and surface storage structures were examined for pollen
and macrofloral remains. In addition, macrobotanical samples and adobe samples
from these features also were analyzed. Because four of the larger features
appear to have been burned simultaneously by highly oxygenated fires, the site
is believed to have been swept by a fire, possibly during the summer. Two of the
surviving pit storage units appear to have been remodeled for expedient use as
dwellings, then abandoned in an orderly fashion.