POLLEN AND MACROFLORAL ANALYSIS OF SAMPLES FROM HOT SPRINGS CAVE, SITE 42JB7, UTAH

Pollen and macrofloral remains were examined from deposits in Hot Springs Cave, site
42JB7, just west of Fish Springs Marsh in western Utah. This site represents a small cave formed
during the Late Pleistocene along the Provo level of Lake Bonneville. Fish Springs marsh is
believed to have formed around 10,500 b.p., and occupation of the cave is thought to have started
at about this time. Pollen and macrofloral samples, including individual charcoal and botanic
samples, were collected from four levels in a test trench and from three levels in a posthole (test
pit) placed in the cave deposits. Pollen and macrofloral analyses will help determine the nature of
intact deposits and will be used to provide information concerning plant resources available to, and
possibly utilized by, the cave occupants.