Set of documents and data tables presenting results of palynological studies initiated 1984 and completed 1988. The 1988 report was submitted to colleagues in the Department of Geography, University of Liverpool, for consideration as part of a planned volume of Pre-Alps village life edited by Prof. David Siddle. The volume was never compiled. An archaeological investigation

Argues that the canons of evidence that apply to artifactual evidence of prehistoric behavior patterns are sometimes distinct from those that apply to non-artifactual evidence, and the logic and archaeological value of the latter is not less simply because it is different. The essay is intended to instruct and sensitise archaeologists to this issue as much as it is to allay concern that the pollen evidence for Archaic maize cultivation at the Koster site may not be credible. 49 p. Also see Schoenwetter 1994