Dhar Tichitt Site 46
Basic information
Sample name: Dhar Tichitt Site 46
Reference: A. Holl. 1985. Subsistence patterns of the Dhar Tichitt Neolithic, Mauritania. African Archaeological Review 3:151-162 [ER 3417]
Geography
Country: Mauritania
Coordinate: 18° 22' N, 9° 13' W
Coordinate basis: estimated from map
Time interval: Holocene
Ma: 0.00383
Age basis: radiocarbon (uncalibrated)
Geography comments: there are eight uncalibrated 14C dates ranging from 3850 +/- 250 to 2430 +/- 80 bp at Site 38, plus one thermolumiscence date of 3400 bp with no error
there is one uncalibrated 14C date of 3830 +/- 120 bp at Site 46
there is one uncalibrated 14C date of 3830 +/- 120 bp at Site 46
Environment
Lithology: not described
Taphonomic context: human accumulation
Archaeology: ceramics,stone tools
Habitat comments: Site 38 is "on the edge of the escarpment of the sandstone cliff" and Site 46 is "in the sandy interdunal depressions"
200 "dry-stone structures" in an area of 600 x 200 m are present at Site 38 but there are none at Site 46
Site 46 "yielded bones as well as stone and ceramic artifacts" but these are not discussed with respect to Site 38
200 "dry-stone structures" in an area of 600 x 200 m are present at Site 38 but there are none at Site 46
Site 46 "yielded bones as well as stone and ceramic artifacts" but these are not discussed with respect to Site 38
Methods
Life forms: ungulates
Sampling methods: surface
Sample size: 46 specimens
Years: 1980, 1981
Sampling comments: bones were "recovered from excavations in site 38" and "systematically collected from site 46" at the surface
Metadata
Sample number: 3802
Contributor: John Alroy
Enterer: John Alroy
Created: 2021-06-11 12:42:44
Modified: 2021-06-11 02:45:53
Abundance distribution
12 species
0 singletons
total count 46
geometric series index: 18.9
Fisher's α: 5.278
geometric series k: 0.8497
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.8676
Shannon's H: 2.2653
Good's u: 1.0000
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