Peale Point House 2 (1)
Basic information
Sample name: Peale Point House 2 (1)
Sample aka: KkDo-1
Reference: D. R. Stenton. 1987. Recent archaeological investigations in Frobisher Bay, Baffin Island, N.W.T.. Canadian Journal of Archaeology 11:13-48 [ER 3154]
Geography
Country: Canada
State: Northwest Territories
Coordinate: 63° 46' N, 68° 39' W
Coordinate basis: based on nearby landmark
Time interval: Holocene
Max Ma: 0.0006
Min Ma: 0.0002
Age basis: zone
Geography comments: "on a small island approximately 13 km west of the town of Iqaluit" (coordinate based on Sylvia Grinnell Territorial Park)
there are no radiocarbon dates and "Artifact analysis indicates that the site was occupied between the thirteenth and eighteenth centuries A.D."
there are no radiocarbon dates and "Artifact analysis indicates that the site was occupied between the thirteenth and eighteenth centuries A.D."
Environment
Lithology: claystone
Taphonomic context: human accumulation,midden,settlement
Archaeology: buildings,stone tools
Habitat comments: a "semi-subterranean" Thule house with "an impressive volume of artifacts and faunal data" including lithics but no ceramics and with a "small midden sampled... arbitrarily grouped with the upper occupation"
Methods
Life forms: carnivores,ungulates,marine mammals
Sampling methods: quarry
Sample size: 874 specimens
Years: 1980, 1981
Sampling comments: screenwashing is not discussed and seems unlikely
birds, fish, and clams are listed but not tabulated
birds, fish, and clams are listed but not tabulated
Metadata
Sample number: 3450
Contributor: John Alroy
Enterer: John Alroy
Created: 2019-09-02 12:09:40
Modified: 2023-02-25 10:54:17
Abundance distribution
9 species
0 singletons
total count 874
extrapolated richness: 10.7
Fisher's α: 1.398
geometric series k: 0.4933
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.5002
Shannon's H: 0.9584
Good's u: 1.0000
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Register
| Delphinapterus leucas | 2 | |
| "beluga" | ||
| Vulpes lagopus | 8 | 3.3 kg |
| "Arctic fox" | ||
| Canis lupus familiaris | 30 | 43 kg carnivore |
| "Canis familiaris" | ||
| Ursus maritimus | 3 | |
| "polar bear" | ||
| Odobenus rosmarus | 13 | |
| "walrus" | ||
| Erignathus barbatus | 9 | |
| "bearded seal" | ||
| Phoca hispida | 570 | |
| Phoca groenlandica | 4 | |
| Rangifer tarandus | 235 | 69 kg browser |
| "caribou" | ||
Current reference:
Herzog et al. 2003 (ER 1261)