Bluegrass (macro)
Basic information
Sample name: Bluegrass (macro)
Reference: C. R. Stafford, R. L. Richards, and C. M. Anslinger. 2000. The Bluegrass fauna and changes in middle Holocene hunter-gatherer foraging in the southern Midwest. American Antiquity 65(2):317-336 [ER 3135]
Geography
Country: United States
State: Indiana
County: Warrick
Coordinate: 38.1° N, -87.37° W
Latlng basis: estimated from map
Time interval: Holocene
Max Ma: 0.00529
Min Ma: 0.00503
Age basis: radiocarbon (uncalibrated)
Geography comments: "in the extreme northwest corner of Warrick County" show approximately in sec 12, T5S, R9W
five radiocarbon dates range from 5290 +/- 70 to 5030 -/- 100 ybp (Jeffries 1997) (presumed to be uncalibrated because errors are symmetrically distributed)
five radiocarbon dates range from 5290 +/- 70 to 5030 -/- 100 ybp (Jeffries 1997) (presumed to be uncalibrated because errors are symmetrically distributed)
Environment
Lithology: not described
Taphonomic context: human accumulation, midden, settlement
Archaeology: burials, hearths, stone tools
Habitat comments: "A 35-cm-thick, organic-rich midden" with "abundant fire-cracked rock, well-preserved animal bone, nutshell, and to a lesser extent lithic debitage and tools... One-hundred and thirty-two pits or hearths were exposed, along with 80 human burials and 12 dog burials"
Methods
Life forms: carnivores, rodents, ungulates, other small mammals, birds, snakes, turtles, frogs, salamanders, fishes, crustaceans, clams
Sampling methods: quarry, screenwash
Sample size: 1107 specimens
Years: 1981 - 1988
Net or trap nights: 0
Basal area status: not applicable
Sampling comments: "derived from 33 pit features excavated at the site... Fauna were recovered from pit fall, dry screened through 1/4-inch mesh, and from the heavy fraction of 11 liter flotation samples. All bone greater than 2 mm is included in the flotation assemblage"
this sample represented the macrofaunal assemblage
this sample represented the macrofaunal assemblage
Metadata
Sample no: 3423
Contributor no: John Alroy
Enterer: John Alroy
Created: 2019-09-01 10:32:50
Modified: 2023-04-03 08:44:22
Abundance distribution
Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts. Values are logged.
Statistics
40 species
12 singletons
total count 1107
geometric series index: 72.8
Fisher's α: 8.128
geometric series k: 0.8494
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.694
Shannon's H: 1.8929
Good's u: 0.9892
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