Old Crow River Loc. 11A (square S30E120)
Basic information
Sample name: Old Crow River Loc. 11A (square S30E120)

Reference: W. N. Irving, J. T. Mayhall, F. J. Melbye, and B. F. Beebe. 1977. A human mandible in probable association with a Pleistocene faunal assemblage in eastern Beringia: a preliminary report. Canadian Journal of Archaeology 1:81-93 [ER 3120]
Geography
Country: Canada

State: Yukon

Coordinate: 68° 45' N, 140° 48' W
Latlng basis: stated in text

Time interval: Late Pleistocene

Geography comments: "a modern point bar deposit" yielding Late Pleistocene and some Early Holocene fossils, although all of the reported material is assumed to be Pleistocene

Environment
Lithology: not described

Taphonomic context: fluvial deposit

Archaeology: stone tools

Habitat comments: associated artifacts in the same "5 x 5 m square" include "4 core fragments, 10 flakes, 16 pieces of bone debitage, and 1 piece of cut caribou antler attached to part of the cranium"

Methods
Life forms: carnivores, primates, rodents, ungulates, birds, fishes

Sampling methods: quarry, screenwash

Sample size: 69 specimens

Years: 1976

Net or trap nights: 0

Basal area status: not applicable

Sampling comments: "the matrix in that square to a depth of about 50 cm was passed rough a screen of 3 mm mesh"

Metadata
Sample no: 3408

Contributor no: John Alroy

Enterer: John Alroy

Created: 2019-08-30 21:11:48

Modified: 2023-02-24 12:06:34

Abundance distribution
Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts. Values are logged.
Statistics
17 species
9 singletons
total count 69
geometric series index: 52.6
Fisher's α: 7.209
geometric series k: 0.8102
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.7709
Shannon's H: 2.0286
Good's u: 0.8712
Register
Osteichthyes indet.2
Aves indet.1
Castoroides ohioensis 1
Microtus sp. 2
Synaptomys sp. 1
tentatively referred
Panthera cf. atrox (American lion)1
"Panthera leo atrox" (tentatively referred)
Canidae indet.1
tentatively referred
Mammuthus primigenius (woolly mammoth)2
Mammuthus cf. columbi (Columbian mammoth)1
Equus (Asinus) cf. lambei (horse)4
Equus sp. 29
"horse"
Camelops cf. hesternus (camel)1
Cervus canadensis (elk)2
"Cervus elephas"
Rangifer tarandus (reindeer)1269.0 kg
Bison sp. 7
Bootherium bombifrons 1
"Symbos cavifrons": tentatively referred
Homo sapiens (human)164.0 kg
mandible