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Storage pits are underground cists that were used historically to protect the seeds for the following year's crops, and to stop surplus food from being eaten by insects and rodents. These underground pits were sometimes lined and covered, for example with slabs of stone and bark and tightly sealed with adobe .
It is thought that the dwellings of the Prehistoric inhabitants were simple structures with a log frame draped over with mats and/or skins. Such dwellings were not substantial enough to leave behind any house patterns or post molds. [1] Over 50 bowl- or wedge-shaped storage/refuse pits were encountered during excavations. It was felt that the ...
The site includes over 85 features with lined and unlined rock fire pits and storage pits, post holes, fire cracked rock features, and a structure. Archaic structures have been found that date to the earliest Archaic and maybe to late Paleoindian periods. These earliest structures are round or oval, shallow, basin-shaped features about 13–16 ...
Archaeologists are bewildered by the discovery of over two dozen large prehistoric pits near London dated to about 8,500 to 7,700 years ago in what they claim to be a “nationally important ...
Based upon the type of plant remains and animal bones, and the presence of numerous storage pits, the excavators felt that the season of occupation was fall and winter, and that the site was a semi-permanent agricultural village.
The refuse pits were thought to have first been storage pits that were converted into refuse pits once their contents began to sour. They contained animal bone, charcoal and artifacts. The roasting pits appear to correspond to what has ethnographically been described as “macoupin roasting pits” by the early French explorers Deliette and ...
On the west side of the site, four stone-arranged hearths, including boat-shaped stone-arranged hearths with long axes of approximately 75-centimeters made of tuff slabs, 22 stone-collecting remains, and eight prehistoric storage pits were discovered. Stone-collecting remains have been confirmed at many other ruins, and consist of dozens of ...
Numerous prehistoric storage pits were also discovered, mainly around the second shell mound, from which acorns that were not very decomposed and many woven baskets were excavated, and various wooden products such as plates, bowls, paddles, and combs were found in good condition from the clay layer that was a wetland at the time. These included ...