Pine Hill
Basic information
Sample name: Pine Hill
Reference: M. G. Cottrell. 1979. The Pine Hill site, St. Lawrence County. Bulletin and Journal of the Archaeology of New York State 77:1-13 [ER 3193]
Geography
Country: United States
State: New York
Coordinate: 44° 22' N, 75° 33' W
Coordinate basis: based on nearby landmark
Time interval: Holocene
Max Ma: 0.00055
Min Ma: 0.0005
Age basis: other
Geography comments: "in the township of Gouverneur, St. Lawrence County, New York. The site is 3.8 miles to the northwest of the village of Natural Dam and is 2.25 miles due north of the Oswegathchie River. The site is 1 mile to the west of Route 58 on Pine Hill Road" (about 1 km northwest of Elmdale, basis of coordinate)
"Late Woodland... estimated to fall between 1400 and 1450 A.D." for reasons unknown
"Late Woodland... estimated to fall between 1400 and 1450 A.D." for reasons unknown
Environment
Lithology: not described
Taphonomic context: human accumulation,settlement
Archaeology: bone tools,other structures
Habitat comments: there is "a double rowed palisade in the excavated test units... the Pine Hill site did not yield flint projectile points or flint debitage" but "Bone projectile points were reported"
ceramics are not discussed
ceramics are not discussed
Methods
Life forms: carnivores,primates,rodents,ungulates,other small mammals,birds,turtles,frogs,fishes
Sampling methods: quarry
Sample size: 724 specimens
Sampling comments: excavation methods are not discussed
pig and sheep are present but presumed by the author to be intrusive because "an old log cabin" is on the site
pig and sheep are present but presumed by the author to be intrusive because "an old log cabin" is on the site
Metadata
Sample number: 3502
Contributor: John Alroy
Enterer: John Alroy
Created: 2019-09-08 19:56:59
Modified: 2023-02-25 11:03:31
Abundance distribution
19 species
2 singletons
total count 724
geometric series index: 25.2
Fisher's α: 3.574
geometric series k: 0.7150
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.6409
Shannon's H: 1.6635
Good's u: 0.9972
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| Odocoileus virginianus | 419 | 75 kg herbivore |
| Ursus americanus | 30 | 115 kg browser-insectivore |
| Canis lupus | 18 | 43 kg carnivore |
| Castor canadensis | 83 | 11 kg |
| Ondatra zibethicus | 48 | 1.1 kg |
| Erethizon dorsatum | 5 | 9.9 kg herbivore |
| Lepus americanus | 13 | 1.4 kg browser |
| Tamias striatus | 20 | 113 g frugivore-insectivore |
| Tamiasciurus hudsonicus | 17 | 187 g |
| Marmota monax | 22 | 4.5 kg |
| Neogale vison | 2 | 950 g |
| "Mustela vison" | ||
| Mephitis mephitis | 1 | 1.5 kg carnivore-insectivore |
| Procyon lotor | 1 | 5.5 kg carnivore-granivore |
| Vulpes vulpes | 3 | 5.3 kg carnivore-insectivore |
| "Vulpes fulva" | ||
| Testudines indet. | 18 | |
| carapaces | ||
| Ictalurus punctatus | 3 | |
| "channel catfish" | ||
| Anura indet. | 3 | |
| "frog" | ||
| Aves indet. | 16 | |
| "bird" | ||
| Homo sapiens | 2 | 64 kg |
| a "newborn infant burial" and a frontal bone | ||