Challuahamba
Basic information
Sample name: Challuahamba
Reference: P. W. Stahl. 2005. Selective faunal provisioning in the southern highlands of Formative Ecuador. Latin American Antiquity 16(3):313-328 [ER 3409]
Geography
Country: Ecuador
State: Azuay
Coordinate: 3° 50' S, 79° 54' W
Latlng basis: stated in text
Time interval: Holocene
Max Ma: 0.002972
Min Ma: 0.002704
Age basis: radiocarbon (calibrated)
Geography comments: an "almost 70 ha" site "on the outskirts of Cuenca directly to the west of an area referred to as El Descanso"
there are are nine calibrated C14 dates ranging from 2972 +/- 47 B.P. to 2704 +/- 49 B.P., not including five dates from Grieder et al. (2002) that the authors appear to reject
there are are nine calibrated C14 dates ranging from 2972 +/- 47 B.P. to 2704 +/- 49 B.P., not including five dates from Grieder et al. (2002) that the authors appear to reject
Environment
Lithology: claystone
Taphonomic context: human accumulation, midden
Archaeology: bone tools, ceramics
Habitat comments: "Most bone specimens were concentrated, along with other cultural materials, in three levels: Level 1, a layer of hard black clay; Level 2, a layer of dark, gray-brown earth with abundant ceramics; and, Level 4, a layer of yellow-gray sandy soil"
charcoal, hearths, burned bone, and cut marks per se are not mentioned, but there are eight modified bones that are clearly tools
charcoal, hearths, burned bone, and cut marks per se are not mentioned, but there are eight modified bones that are clearly tools
Methods
Life forms: carnivores, primates, rodents, ungulates, other small mammals, birds, turtles, other reptiles, fishes, clams, snails
Sampling methods: quarry
Sample size: 1492 specimens
Sampled by: T. Grieder
Years: 1995 - 2000
Net or trap nights: 0
Basal area status: not applicable
Sampling comments: from "three cuts excavated by natural levels up to roughly two meters deep in an undisturbed portion of the site on the edge of the first terrace adjacent to the Tomebamba river. Over 85 percent of the studied assemblage was recovered from midden deposits in Cut 3, which was excavated during 1996-97"
Metadata
Sample no: 3793
Contributor no: John Alroy
Enterer: John Alroy
Created: 2021-06-10 17:15:55
Modified: 2021-06-10 07:42:11
Abundance distribution
Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts. Values are logged.
Statistics
25 species
12 singletons
total count 1492
geometric series index: 59.8
Fisher's α: 4.266
geometric series k: 0.7507
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.5211
Shannon's H: 1.1202
Good's u: 0.992
Register
| Megalobulimus sp. | 1 | |
| Conus sp. | 1 | |
| Pecten sp. | 1 | |
| Spondylus sp. | 1 | |
| questionably referred | ||
| Ariidae indet. | 25 | |
| Testudines indet. | 3 | |
| "Chelonia" | ||
| Crocodylidae indet. | 1 | |
| Phalacrocorax sp. | 1 | |
| Vultur gryphus | 2 | 12.0 kg |
| Geranoaetus sp. | 3 | |
| Columba sp. | 2 | |
| Chironectes sp. | 1 | |
| compared to this genus | ||
| Didelphis sp. | 1 | |
| Homo sapiens (human) | 34 | 64.0 kg |
| "Homo" | ||
| Sylvilagus sp. | 320 | |
| Sciurus sp. | 1 | |
| Sigmodon cf. inopinatus | 1 | |
| Dasyprocta sp. | 92 | |
| Cuniculus cf. taczanowskii | 1 | |
| Canis lupus familiaris (gray wolf) | 4 | 43.0 kg |
| "Canis" and "dog" | ||
| Tremarctos sp. | 5 | |
| Puma concolor (cougar) | 4 | |
| "Felis concolor" | ||
| Tapirus sp. | 1 | |
| Tayassuidae indet. | 10 | |
| "Tayassu": either collared or white-lipped peccaries | ||
| Odocoileus virginianus (white-tailed deer) | 976 | |