POLLEN AND MACROFLORAL ANALYSIS AT SITES IN THE HONEYBEE RIDGE MITIGATION PROJECT, ORO VALLEY, ARIZONA

Soil samples from Sites AZ BB:9:57(ASM),AZ BB:9:160(ASM), and AZ BB:9:189(ASM) in southern Arizona were examined for pollen and macrofloral remains. These sites are part of the Honeybee Ridge Mitigation project. Site AZ BB:9:57(ASM) may be a field house or resource processing area. Site AZ BB:9:160(ASM) is a resource processing area that appears to have been utilized during the late Colonial or Sedentary Periods of the Tucson Basin Hohokam Sequence. Site AZ BB:9:189(ASM) is a multicomponent site with Tucson Basin Hohokam prehistoric and historic components. The main focus of all three sites appears to have been resource processing. Pollen and macrofloral analyses are used to provide information concerning plant resources that were processed at these sites.