Zongri type-site (Layer 1)
Basic information
Sample name: Zongri type-site (Layer 1)

Reference: L. Ren, G. Dong, F. Liu, J. D'alpoim-Guedes, R. K. Flad, M. Ma, H. Li, Y. Yang, Y. Liu, D. Zhang, G. Li, J. Li, and F. Chen. 2020. Foraging and farming: archaeobotanical and zooarchaeological evidence for Neolithic exchange on the Tibetan Plateau. Antiquity 94(375):637-652 [ER 3369]
Geography
Country: China

State: Qinghai


Coordinate: 35° 25' N, 100° 20' E
Coordinate basis: estimated from map

Time interval: Holocene

Section: 3369

Unit number: 1

Unit order: above to below

Ma: 0.0037

Age basis: radiocarbon (uncalibrated)

Geography comments: Site is one of many located "in the eastern Gonghe Basin of the north-eastern Tibetan Plateau, all located above 2600m asl"
"Ten charred millet seeds were selected from three cultural layers and two ash pits... for AMS radiocarbon dating"
Layer 1 is undated (the three cultural layers being Layers 2-4)
The youngest date given for Layer 2 is "2090±105 cal BC (at 95.4% confidence)" which corresponds to an uncalibrated date of "3700±25 BP"
Layer 1 is not any older than this date

Environment
Lithology: not described

Taphonomic context: human accumulation

Archaeology: bone tools,burials,ceramics,hearths,stone tools,other artifacts

Habitat comments: Site was "first investigated in 1982 by the Qinghai Provincial Institute of Cultural Relics and Archaeology... yielded two burials and a pottery kiln" Further excavations conducted between 1994 and 1996 "uncovered a total of 341 tombs, 18 ash pits and 18 sacrificial pits, and over 30 000 artefacts, including ceramic sherds, lithics, animal remains and bone objects"

Methods
Life forms: rodents,ungulates

Sampling methods: quarry,screenwash

Sample size: 5 specimens

Sampling comments: "In 2015, we excavated a small trench measuring 4 × 4m at the Zongri type-site, identifying three distinct cultural layers"
"Systematic archaeobotanical and zooarchaeological sampling was conducted for all features and layers encountered in the trench: 92 soil samples were taken... which contained 4150 charred plant seeds and 3132 fragments of animal bone"
"fragments of animal bones were floated from soil samples"

Metadata
Sample number: 3730

Contributor: Benjamin Carter

Enterer: Benjamin Carter

Created: 2021-05-12 13:05:39

Modified: 2023-04-29 02:52:11

Abundance distribution
3 species
2 singletons
total count 5
extrapolated richness: 13.5
Fisher's α: 3.167
geometric series k: 0.5774
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.4500
Shannon's H: 0.9503
Good's u: 0.6000
Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts.
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