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- All Subjects: Fossil, Pollen Identification
- All Subjects: School of American Research (Santa Fe, N.M.)
- Creators: Schoenwetter, James
Popular version of Bethsaida pollen research prepared for "Discovering Archaeology" prior to the date that journal ceased publication. Rejected by "Biblical Archaeology."
Draft of report published in C.F. Schaafsma, 1980, The Cerrito Site: A Piedra Lumbre Phase Settlement at Abiquiu Reservoir. School of American Research, Santa Fe.
Study of 97 pollen samples suggests that pollen occurs in sufficient quantity for analysis, that economic pollen types occur, and that pollen sequences indicate paleoenvironmental changes over time. An extraction technique for recovering sufficient pollen for analysis is described for samples dominated by coral sand particles. 29 pollen taxa were recognized in the analysis of a series of samples from a Futuna Island rockshelter.