Marie,
 
I may have mentioned last week (although I could have been on ACRA at the  
time) that a trash pit exposed at the Ballast Point Whaling Station  
(CA-SDI-12,953) was carefully excavated and all the soil pouted into a shaker  screen 
with window mesh and waterscreened. The entire contents were dried on  screens, 
then taken to my house where I painfully sorted out all the plant  remains, 
fish bones, pins, fish hooks, tiny fasteners, beads, buttons, and other  remains. 
This analysis is still in process. 
 
Ron May
Legacy 106, Inc.
 
 
In a message dated 1/20/2009 8:13:41 A.M. Pacific Standard Time,  
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On a  recent excavation in SW Ohio, we took 5-gallon bulk samples from a  
19th-cen. Anglo-American refuse pit.  We have the opportunity to  float one 
or 
more of these samples.  Can the HISTARCH community offer  references or 
articles concerning the results and intrepretations of  
faunal/botantical/artifact 
recovery from float samples from similar  contexts?  

Best,

Marie  Pokrant


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