POLLEN ANALYSIS OF FA 2-13

Site FA 2-13 is an Archaic or Basketmaker II open campsite located in
the Farmington Glade Arroyo system. The site is situated on a stabilized
sand dune on the west side of a sandstone cliff in a microecotone between
the pinyon and juniper vegetation and the scrub-grassland of the bottom of
the Farmington Glade Arroyo where various grasses, sagebrush (Artemisia),
rabbitbrush (Chrysothamnus), and snakeweed (Gutierrezia--a high-spine
Compositae) predominate. Water is currently available only on a seasonal
basis; the nearest permanent water supply being the La Plata River 2.13 km
to the west. Two pollen samples were taken within a hearth designated
Feature 1. A third sample was taken from Feature 3, also a hearth; and the
fourth sample was taken from a charcoal concentration level elsewhere in the
site. Two metates are represented by three metate fragments, which were
washed for their pollen content (Table 1). Two of the fragments (FS 224 and
FS 225) fit together and represent a single metate.