Spring Creek
Basic information
Sample name: Spring Creek
Reference: C. Widga. 2004. Early Archaic subsistence in the Central Plains: the Spring Creek (25FT31) fauna. Plains Anthropologist 49:25-58 [ER 3139]
Geography
Country: United States
State: Nebraska
Coordinate: 40° 22' N, 100° 40' W
Coordinate basis: based on nearby landmark
Time interval: Holocene
Ma: 0.00568
Age basis: radiocarbon (uncalibrated)
Geography comments: "now inundated by the Red Willow Reservoir" (coordinate based on Red Willow Dam)
there is a radiocarbon date on bulk charcoal of 5680 +/- 160 B.P. (presumed to be uncalibrated because the error is symmetrically distributed)
there is a radiocarbon date on bulk charcoal of 5680 +/- 160 B.P. (presumed to be uncalibrated because the error is symmetrically distributed)
Environment
Lithology: not described
Taphonomic context: human accumulation
Archaeology: bone tools,ceramics,stone tools
Habitat comments: "13 features were excavaged, ranging from concentrations of bison bone to basin-shaped pits and a cluster of grinding stones" but this "is a task-oriented bison processing site" and not a settlement
Grange (1980) described "chipped and ground stone tools, formal bone tool and ceramic" artifacts
Grange (1980) described "chipped and ground stone tools, formal bone tool and ceramic" artifacts
Methods
Life forms: carnivores,rodents,ungulates,other small mammals,birds,turtles
Sampling methods: quarry,screenwash
Sample size: 983 specimens
Sampling comments: "Excavations" began "during the summer of 1961... All materials were collected and all sediments dry-screened through 1/4-inch mesh"
material from "surface contexts" is omitted from the register
material from "surface contexts" is omitted from the register
Metadata
Sample number: 3430
Contributor: John Alroy
Enterer: John Alroy
Created: 2019-09-01 14:39:05
Modified: 2023-04-03 08:46:02
Abundance distribution
10 species
6 singletons
total count 983
geometric series index: 34.6
Fisher's α: 1.549
geometric series k: 0.4661
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.0372
Shannon's H: 0.1294
Good's u: 0.9939
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Register
| Antilocapra americana | 9 | 51 kg |
| Bison sp. | 964 | |
| Cervidae indet. | 2 | |
| Procyon lotor | 1 | 5.5 kg carnivore-granivore |
| Lagomorpha indet. | 1 | |
| Cynomys ludovicianus | 1 | |
| Geomys bursarius | 1 | |
| Vulpes velox | 2 | 2.4 kg carnivore |
| Anseriformes indet. | 1 | |
| Chrysemys picta | 1 |