Cadwalader
Basic information
Sample name: Cadwalader

Reference: R. S. White Jr. 1974. Notes on some archaeological faunas from the northeastern United States. Archaeology of Eastern North America 2(1):67-72 [ER 3170]
Geography
Country: United States

State: New Jersey


Coordinate: 39° 13' N, 75° 1' W
Coordinate basis: based on nearby landmark

Time interval: Holocene

Max Ma: 0.00295

Min Ma: 0.00215

Age basis: zone

Geography comments: "two sites on the Maurice River (within a mile of the Delaware Bay)"
coordinate based on Heislerville Wildlife Management Area
"Early Woodland" based on artifacts (i.e., 1000 to 200 BCE)

Environment
Lithology: not described

Taphonomic context: human accumulation,midden,settlement

Archaeology: ceramics,stone tools

Habitat comments: "The predominant occupation was by an Early Woodland group, with such artifacts as broad-bladed side-notched points and crude flat-bottom and conoidal-based pottery vessels associated with irregular heaps of shell" interpreted as accumulated by hunting or collecting

Methods
Life forms: carnivores,rodents,ungulates,turtles

Sampling methods: quarry

Sample size: 269 specimens

Years: 1972

Sampling comments: "escavations"

Metadata
Sample number: 3474

Contributor: John Alroy

Enterer: John Alroy

Created: 2019-09-04 21:37:11

Modified: 2023-02-25 11:23:05

Abundance distribution
9 species
4 singletons
total count 269
geometric series index: 18.4
Fisher's α: 1.794
geometric series k: 0.5218
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.4884
Shannon's H: 0.9762
Good's u: 0.9851
Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts.
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