Paso Otero 4 (water well)
Basic information
Sample name: Paso Otero 4 (water well)

Reference: G. Martínez and M. A. Gutiérrez. 2019. Early Holocene water well in the Pampas of Argentina: Human responses to water shortage events. Holocene 29(1):145-157 [ER 3411]
Geography
Country: Argentina


Coordinate: 38° 34' S, 58° 42' W
Coordinate basis: stated in text

Formation: Lujân

Time interval: Holocene

Max Ma: 0.00876

Min Ma: 0.006395

Age basis: radiocarbon (uncalibrated)

Geography comments: "in the Paso Otero archaeological locality... in the middle stream of the Quequén Grande River"
coordinated based on Prado et al. (1987)
there are five uncalibrated 14C dates on the water well ranging from 8760 +/- 160 to 6395 +/- 79 ybp
from the Rio Salado Member, which overlies the the Guerrero Member

Environment
Lithology: siltstone

Taphonomic context: human accumulation,lake deposit

Archaeology: stone tools

Habitat comments: "fine diatomaceous sediments... formed as part of very calm depositional processes that occurred within interconnected ponds or marshy environments throughout the landscape... silty fractions prevail"
"The lithic assemblage consists of 464 items, 40 of which are tools, 1 is a core, 412 are lithic debris, and 11 are ecofacts... the site was initially occupied by humans in the early Holocene" and there were "residential and multi-purpose activity sites"
bone tools and charcoal are not discussed

Methods
Life forms: carnivores,rodents,ungulates,other large mammals,birds,snakes,frogs

Sampling methods: quarry

Sample size: 204 specimens

Sampling comments: "recovered from an excavated area of 14 m2"

Metadata
Sample number: 3796

Contributor: John Alroy

Enterer: John Alroy

Created: 2021-06-10 19:07:11

Modified: 2021-06-10 09:07:11

Abundance distribution
15 species
4 singletons
total count 204
extrapolated richness: 25.1
Fisher's α: 3.732
geometric series k: 0.7551
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.8196
Shannon's H: 1.9829
Good's u: 0.9805
Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts.
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