El Zurdo
Basic information
Sample name: El Zurdo
Sample aka: CH-159
Reference: L. M. Hodgetts. 1996. Faunal evidence from El Zurdo. Kiva 62(2):149-170 [ER 3185]
Geography
Country: Mexico
State: Chihuahua
Coordinate: 29° 24' N, 107° 55' W
Coordinate basis: based on nearby landmark
Time interval: Holocene
Max Ma: 0.00134
Min Ma: 0.000575
Age basis: radiocarbon (uncalibrated)
Geography comments: "within the Babícora Basin... A large lake, the Laguna de Babícora, lies about 10 km southeast" (coordinate based on El Zurdo)
there is a radiocarbon date of 1340 +/- 80 B.P. on a corn cob and two calibrated dates of A.D 1288 and A.D. 1375 on "two human skeletons in a double burial" (intcal3 back computation of the dates yields 683 and 575 B.P.)
there is a radiocarbon date of 1340 +/- 80 B.P. on a corn cob and two calibrated dates of A.D 1288 and A.D. 1375 on "two human skeletons in a double burial" (intcal3 back computation of the dates yields 683 and 575 B.P.)
Environment
Lithology: not described
Taphonomic context: human accumulation,midden,settlement
Archaeology: buildings,burials,ceramics
Habitat comments: there are "three main roomblocks of adobe and rock wall construction, all of which have been disturbed by pothunting. There is also a patio area and a large midden deposit" and there is "polychrome pottery"
Methods
Life forms: carnivores,rodents,ungulates,other small mammals,birds,turtles,frogs,fishes
Sampling methods: quarry,screenwash
Sample size: 825 specimens
Years: 1991, 1992
Sampling comments: "There was a great deal of site disturbance fro pothunting and the large rodent population on the site no doubt helped to mix the deposits" so a listed "pig" specimen is probably intrusive
excavation "targeted the central roomblock and the midden area" and sediment was "screened through quarter-inch mesh"
counts of turkey specimens recovered from "five turkey burials" are excluded
excavation "targeted the central roomblock and the midden area" and sediment was "screened through quarter-inch mesh"
counts of turkey specimens recovered from "five turkey burials" are excluded
Metadata
Sample number: 3493
Contributor: John Alroy
Enterer: John Alroy
Created: 2019-09-07 18:18:08
Modified: 2023-02-25 11:02:28
Abundance distribution
36 species
9 singletons
total count 825
geometric series index: 60.5
Fisher's α: 7.683
geometric series k: 0.8600
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.8719
Shannon's H: 2.4387
Good's u: 0.9891
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Register
| Osteichthyes indet. | 15 | |
| "fish" | ||
| Anura indet. | 1 | |
| "frog" | ||
| Testudines indet. | 4 | |
| "turtle" | ||
| Podicipediformes indet. medium | 5 | |
| Podicipediformes indet. small | 1 | |
| Ciconiiformes indet. | 2 | |
| Anas sp. | 5 | |
| Aythya sp. | 1 | |
| Oxyura jamaicensis | 1 | 629 g |
| Falco sparverius | 1 | 2.7 g carnivore |
| Meleagris gallopavo | 109 | 7.8 kg omnivore |
| Phasianidae indet. | 23 | |
| Gruiformes indet. | 4 | |
| Rallidae indet. | 4 | |
| Fulica americana | 99 | 724 g |
| Charadriiformes indet. | 1 | |
| Columbiformes indet. | 1 | |
| Strigiformes indet. | 10 | |
| Piciformes indet. | 2 | |
| Corvus corax | 3 | omnivore |
| Sylvilagus sp. | 84 | |
| Lepus sp. | 196 | |
| Marmotini indet. | 12 | |
| "Spermophilus sp." | ||
| Cynomys sp. | 19 | |
| Thomomys sp. | 53 | |
| Neotoma sp. | 5 | |
| Microtus sp. | 2 | |
| Canis sp. | 123 | |
| Canidae indet. | 2 | |
| Urocyon or Vulpes | ||
| Ursus americanus | 1 | 115 kg browser-insectivore |
| Mustelinae indet. | 1 | |
| "Mustela sp." | ||
| Taxidea taxus | 9 | 7.0 kg carnivore |
| Puma concolor | 2 | 49 kg carnivore |
| "Felis concolor" | ||
| Lynx rufus | 2 | 9.0 kg carnivore |
| Odocoileus sp. | 19 | |
| Antilocapra americana | 3 | 51 kg |