McIntosh
Basic information
Sample name: McIntosh

Sample aka: 25BW15

Reference: A. Koch. 1995. The McIntosh fauna: late prehistoric exploitation of lake and prairie habitats in the Nebraska Sand Hills. Plains Anthropologist 40:39-60 [ER 3144]
Geography
Country: United States

State: Nebraska

County: Chase

Coordinate: 40° 25' N, 102° 31' W
Latlng basis: based on nearby landmark

Time interval: Holocene

Max Ma: 0.00065

Min Ma: 0.00051

Age basis: radiocarbon (uncalibrated)

Geography comments: "along the southeast shore of Enders Lake" (coordinate based on Enders Dam)
there are accepted uncalibrated radiocarbon dates of 510 +/- 40 and 650 +/- 60 BP

Environment
Lithology: not described

Taphonomic context: human accumulation, midden, paleosol, settlement

Archaeology: bone tools, buildings, ceramics, stone tools

Habitat comments: "The cultural deposit is contained within a 5-10 cm band of dark gray mottled paleosol mantled with sandy sod overburden of varying thickness. The excavated feature inventory includes a 3.0 x 5.5 m oval stained 'midden' area" with post molds, pits, and "bone or artifact concentrations" that include "ceramics, chipped stone tools and debris, ground stone, modified bone, pigment, and galena"

Methods
Life forms: carnivores, rodents, ungulates, other small mammals, birds, lizards, snakes, turtles, frogs, fishes

Sampling methods: quarry, screenwash, surface

Sample size: 2759 specimens

Years: 1987 - 1989

Net or trap nights: 0

Basal area status: not applicable

Sampling comments: "surface collections, controlled testing, excavation of pit features, and transit mapping" and "with the exception of test squares, which were 1/4 inch dry-screened, all excavated matrix was water-screened through 1/16 inch mesh"

Metadata
Sample no: 3438

Contributor no: John Alroy

Enterer: John Alroy

Created: 2019-09-01 17:55:53

Modified: 2023-02-25 10:52:04

Abundance distribution
Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts. Values are logged.
Statistics
42 species
9 singletons
total count 2759
geometric series index: 63.8
Fisher's α: 7.029
geometric series k: 0.8411
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.745
Shannon's H: 1.9071
Good's u: 0.9967
Register
Esocidae indet.1
Cyprinidae indet.12
Catostomidae indet.79
Ictalurus melas 1204
Micropterus salmonoides 244
Lepomis sp. 240
Terrapene ornata 90
Chrysemys picta 61
Squamata indet.4
"Sauria"
Colubridae indet.4
Ranidae indet.8
Podicipedidae indet.1
Branta canadensis 264.1 g
Chen sp. 2
Anas platyrhynchos 1135.3 g
Anas sp. 11
"teal"
Aythyinae indet.4
Accipitridae indet.2
Tetraonidae indet.11
Fulica americana 4724.0 g
Charadriidae indet.4
Larus sp. 2
Picidae indet.1
Turdidae indet.1
Icteridae indet.1
Sturnella sp. 2
Passeriformes indet.8
Lepus californicus 12.1 kg
Ictidomys tridecemlineatus 1
"Spermophilus tridecemlineatus"
Poliocitellus franklinii 7
"Spermophilus franklinii"
Cynomys ludovicianus 4
Geomys bursarius 5
Peromyscus maniculatus 319.1 g
Onychomys leucogaster 134.7 g
Microtus ochrogaster 133.9 g
Ondatra zibethicus 11
Canis sp. 43
Vulpes velox (swift fox)10
Mephitis mephitis (striped skunk)20
Odocoileus sp. 14
Antilocapra americana (pronghorn)751.0 kg
Bison bison (American bison)593430.0 kg