Anthony Taylorhttps://orcid.org/0000-0001-5170-6984,^1,*,** Jarod M. Hutson,^2,3,*** Vaughn M. Bryanthttps://orcid.org/0000-0001-5615-6803,^1,**** Dennis L. Jenkins<sup>4,*****

1</sup>aPalynology Laboratory, Department of Anthropology, Texas A&M University (TAMU 4352), College Statio
²bMONREPOS Archaeological Research Centre and Museum for Human Behavioural Evolution, Römisch-Germani
³cDepartment of Paleobiology, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington
⁴dMuseum of Natural and Cultural History, University of Oregon, Eugene

^*CONTACT Anthony Taylor taylo236@tamu.edu Anthony Taylor, 420 Mystic Mountain Dr., Sparks, NV 89441
^**Anthony Taylor received degrees from the University of Nevada, Reno (BA in anthropology, MA in anthropology). He is currently pursuing a doctorate in anthropology at Texas A&M University. His research incorporates vegetation history, paleodiets, and coprolite analysis.
^***Jarod M. Hutson received a PhD from the University of Nevada, Reno (2012), MSc from the University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa (2006), and a BS from the University of Wisconsin-Madison (2002).
^****Vaughn M. Bryant received degrees from the University of Texas at Austin (BA in geography, MA in anthropology, PhD in botany) and currently teaches at Texas A&M University in College Station, Texas. He is a professor of anthropology and the Director of the Texas A&M University Palynology Laboratory. He is also an adjunct professor of forensic sciences at the University of Nebraska. He is a former editor of Palynology and former president of AASP. Currently, he is a Trustee and the Secretary of the AASP Foundation.
^*****Dennis L. Jenkins is a senior research archaeologist at the Museum of Natural and Cultural History, University of Oregon, where he received his PhD in 1991. He has taught and directed the University of Oregon's Northern Great Basin archaeological field school in central Oregon, USA, since 1989. His research focuses on the first colonization of the Americas, obsidian sourcing and hydration, prehistoric shell bead trade, and prehistoric settlement–subsistence patterns of the Northern Great Basin.