Hey Margaret
That is what Mary T. and I are thinking too.
Thanks
Leslie
On Oct 28, 2009, at 8:27 AM, Margie Scarry wrote:
> I too wonder if they are larvae, but given the presence of maize and
> nutshells I wondered if they were pests associated w/ those products.
> I've seen larvae in carbonized stored acorn mean and I think w/ maize
> kernels.
>
> Margaret Scarry
>
> Mordechai Kislev wrote:
>> Is it possible that they are larvae of beetles?
>>
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>> *From:* Leslie Raymer <mailto:[log in to unmask]>
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>> *Sent:* Wednesday, October 28, 2009 2:41 AM
>> *Subject:* Anyone have any thoughts on what these are??
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>> Trying to id these and we are stumped. Associated with a burned
>> cane sample containing possible domesticated Chenopodium, maize,
>> nutshell, Strophostyles,. Early Mississippian stockaded village
>> site in the Georgia Piedmont (southeastern US), first terrace of a
>> major river.
>>
>> Thanks for any help!
>>
>> Leslie Branch-Raymer
>> New South Associates, Inc.
>>
>> Mary Theresa Bonhage-Freund
>> Alma College
>>
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Leslie Branch-Raymer, MA, RPA
Director of Subsistence Studies
Archaeobotanist
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