Dhar Tichitt Site 38
Basic information
Sample name: Dhar Tichitt Site 38

Reference: A. Holl. 1985. Subsistence patterns of the Dhar Tichitt Neolithic, Mauritania. African Archaeological Review 3:151-162 [ER 3417]
Geography
Country: Mauritania


Coordinate: 18° 22' N, 9° 13' W
Coordinate basis: estimated from map

Time interval: Holocene

Max Ma: 0.00385

Min Ma: 0.00243

Age basis: radiocarbon (uncalibrated)

Geography comments: there are eight uncalibrated 14C dates ranging from 3850 +/- 250 to 2430 +/- 80 bp at Site 38, plus one thermolumiscence date of 3400 bp with no error
there is one uncalibrated 14C date of 3830 +/- 120 bp at Site 46

Environment
Lithology: sandstone

Taphonomic context: human accumulation

Archaeology: buildings

Habitat comments: Site 38 is "on the edge of the escarpment of the sandstone cliff" and Site 46 is "in the sandy interdunal depressions"
200 "dry-stone structures" in an area of 600 x 200 m are present at Site 38 but there are none at Site 46
Site 46 "yielded bones as well as stone and ceramic artifacts" but these are not discussed with respect to Site 38

Methods
Life forms: carnivores,rodents,ungulates

Sampling methods: quarry

Sample size: 169 specimens

Years: 1980, 1981

Sampling comments: bones were "recovered from excavations in site 38" and "systematically collected from site 46" at the surface

Metadata
Sample number: 3801

Contributor: John Alroy

Enterer: John Alroy

Created: 2021-06-11 12:34:34

Modified: 2022-01-20 01:04:22

Abundance distribution
15 species
4 singletons
total count 169
geometric series index: 27.1
Fisher's α: 3.976
geometric series k: 0.7306
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.7115
Shannon's H: 1.7266
Good's u: 0.9765
Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts.
Register
Bos sp.35
Caprinae indet.12
Ovis or Capra
Hippotragus equinus2246 kg grazer
Kobus sp.2
Tragelaphus sp.3
Taurotragus derbianus5
Equus africanus asinus1287 kg
"Equus asinus"
Nanger dama3
"Gazella dama"
Oryx dammah11
"Oryx algazel"
Panthera sp.1
Addax nasomaculatus9
Antilopini indet.81
"Gazella sp.": dorcas and rufifrons
Genetta genetta11.7 kg insectivore-frugivore
Cricetomys sp.1
Mellivora capensis27.7 kg carnivore-invertivore