Old Crow River Loc. 11A (square S30E120)
Basic information
Sample name: Old Crow River Loc. 11A (square S30E120)
Reference: W. N. Irving, J. T. Mayhall, F. J. Melbye, and B. F. Beebe. 1977. A human mandible in probable association with a Pleistocene faunal assemblage in eastern Beringia: a preliminary report. Canadian Journal of Archaeology 1:81-93 [ER 3120]
Geography
Country: Canada
State: Yukon
Coordinate: 67° 45' N, 139° 48' W
Coordinate basis: stated in text
Time interval: Late Pleistocene
Geography comments: "a modern point bar deposit" yielding Late Pleistocene and some Early Holocene fossils, although all of the reported material is assumed to be Pleistocene
Environment
Lithology: not described
Taphonomic context: fluvial deposit
Archaeology: stone tools
Habitat comments: associated artifacts in the same "5 x 5 m square" include "4 core fragments, 10 flakes, 16 pieces of bone debitage, and 1 piece of cut caribou antler attached to part of the cranium"
Methods
Life forms: carnivores,primates,rodents,ungulates,birds,fishes
Sampling methods: quarry,screenwash
Sample size: 69 specimens
Years: 1976
Sampling comments: "the matrix in that square to a depth of about 50 cm was passed rough a screen of 3 mm mesh"
Metadata
Sample number: 3408
Contributor: John Alroy
Enterer: John Alroy
Created: 2019-08-30 21:11:48
Modified: 2023-02-24 12:06:34
Abundance distribution
17 species
9 singletons
total count 69
extrapolated richness: 52.6
Fisher's α: 7.209
geometric series k: 0.8102
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.7709
Shannon's H: 2.0286
Good's u: 0.8712
Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts.
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Register
| Osteichthyes indet. | 2 | |
| Aves indet. | 1 | |
| Castoroides ohioensis | 1 | |
| Microtus sp. | 2 | |
| Synaptomys sp. | 1 | |
| tentatively referred | ||
| Panthera cf. atrox | 1 | |
| "Panthera leo atrox" (tentatively referred) | ||
| Canidae indet. | 1 | |
| tentatively referred | ||
| Mammuthus primigenius | 2 | |
| Mammuthus cf. columbi | 1 | |
| Equus (Asinus) cf. lambei | 4 | |
| Equus sp. | 29 | |
| "horse" | ||
| Camelops cf. hesternus | 1 | |
| Cervus canadensis | 2 | 329 kg browser-grazer |
| "Cervus elephas" | ||
| Rangifer tarandus | 12 | 69 kg browser |
| Bison sp. | 7 | |
| Bootherium bombifrons | 1 | |
| "Symbos cavifrons": tentatively referred | ||
| Homo sapiens | 1 | 64 kg |
| mandible | ||
Current reference:
Shotwell 1968 (ER 3992)