Abstract
M ANY cases have been noted in which the vegetation is distinctive on former American Indian habitation sites. In 1832, Charles Darwin (1958:183) distinguished the shell heaps in Tierra del Fuego at a long distance by the bright green color of plants such as wild celery and scurvy grass. Dall (1877:45) has made the same kind of observation in the Aleutian Islands. He attributed the brilliant green covering of the ancient village sites to their exceptional fertility. Among the many more recent observations of such phenomena are examples from Alaska (Hrdlikka 1937; Bank 1953), Ohio (Mosely 1931), Indiana (Zeiner 1946), Florida (Small 1927), Louisiana (Brown 1936), the Great Plains (Gilmore 1931), central California (Jepson 1909:38-39), Lower California (Meigs 1938), and Yucatan (Lundell 1939). This is a report of a study of the effects of Pueblo Indians of pre-Spanish times on the composition of the flora of their former habitation sites in the American Southwest. Fieldwork was accomplished during the summer of 1957 at Bandelier National Monument on the Pajarito Plateau of north-central New Mexico in Sandoval and Santa Fe Counties. Several additional observa-
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