POLLEN AND MACROFLORAL ANALYSIS OF SAMPLES FROM SITES ALONG NINE MILE CANYON, CARBON COUNTY, UTAH

Seven sites in Nine Mile Canyon, Carbon County, Utah, were excavated during monitoring of the Bill Barrett Corporation’s Peters Point to Dry Canyon Pipeline. A total of 17 fill samples collected from various thermal features that included a roasting pit, a hearth, features associated with two pit structures, unprepared hearths, a possible buried hearth, soil stains, and an unknown feature were submitted for pollen and macrofloral analysis. Pollen and macrofloral analyses are used to provide subsistence information concerning plant resources utilized by the occupants of these various sites.