Hale Farm
Basic information
Sample name: Hale Farm

Sample aka: 33Su17

Reference: D. S. Brose. 1985. The prehistoric occupation of the Hale Farm Bath Township Summit County Ohio. Kirtlandia 41:35-61 [ER 3180]
Geography
Country: United States

State: Ohio


County: Summit


Coordinate: 41° 12' N, 81° 34' W
Coordinate basis: based on nearby landmark

Time interval: Holocene

Max Ma: 0.00105

Min Ma: 0.00075

Age basis: zone

Geography comments: "on Oak Hill Road, lot 11, township 3, range 12, in Bath Township" along Hale Run (coordinate based on Hale Run)
"a single prehistoric cultural assemblage, assignable to between A.D. 900 and A.D. 1200"

Environment
Lithology: not described

Taphonomic context: human accumulation

Archaeology: buildings,ceramics,stone tools

Habitat comments: bones were "broken, butchered, or burned"
artifacts include stone tools, stone and clay beads, and pottery
postholes are present

Methods
Life forms: carnivores,rodents,ungulates,birds,turtles,fishes

Sampling methods: quarry,screenwash

Sample size: 160 specimens

Years: 1971, 1980

Sampling comments: soils "were screened through 1/4 in or 3/32 in hardware cloth"
the bear, deer, and elk are respectively said to represent one, three, and two individuals

Metadata
Sample number: 3488

Contributor: John Alroy

Enterer: John Alroy

Created: 2019-09-06 19:34:06

Modified: 2023-02-25 00:50:52

Abundance distribution
9 species
0 singletons
total count 160
geometric series index: 10.6
Fisher's α: 2.062
geometric series k: 0.6639
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.7913
Shannon's H: 1.7972
Good's u: 1.0000
Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts.
Register
Ursus americanus4115 kg browser-insectivore
"American black bear"
Odocoileus virginianus5375 kg herbivore
"whitetail deer"
Cervus canadensis21170 kg browser-grazer
"American elk"
Procyon lotor135.5 kg carnivore-granivore
"raccoon"
Castor canadensis211 kg
"beaver"
Ectopistes migratorius5
"passenger pigeon"
Meleagris gallopavo67.8 kg omnivore
"turkey"
Testudines indet.17
"turtle"
Catostomidae indet.39
"suckers"