The Ecological Register: Contrada Castro (Period A)

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Contrada Castro (Period A)

Basic information

Sample name: Contrada Castro (Period A)

Reference: A. Castrorao Barba, C. Speciale, R. Miccichè, F. Pisciotta, C. Aleo Nero, P. Marino, and G. Bazan. 2021. The Sicilian countryside in the Early Middle Ages: human-environment interactions at Contrada Castro. Environmental Archaeology x:1-16 [ER 3828]

Geography

Country: Italy

State: Palermo

Coordinate: 37.77° N, 13.30° E

Coordinate basis: estimated from map

Time interval: Holocene

Section: 3828

Unit number: 1

Unit order: below to above

Max Ma: 0.0011

Min Ma: 0.00105

Age basis: other

Geography comments: estimated from satellite map based on Fig. 1
"late 8th-9th c. AD" based on a "typological study of the site" and on two confirming radiocarbon dates (only 1 sd ranges are given, and it is not clear if they are calibrated)

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Environment

Lithology: not described

Taphonomic context: human accumulation,settlement

Archaeology: buildings,ceramics

Habitat comments: "a square building" with "pottery kilns" that yielded "production waste"
"35% of the identified elements bore evidence" of gnawing "likely caused by dogs" and there are also "dismembering marks made with large tools"

Methods

Life forms: ungulates,birds

Sample size: 79 specimens

Years: 2017 - 2019

Sampling comments: full counts of plant species based on seeds and wood charcoal are also given
there are two infant burials below the Period A building structure, immediately predating it

Metadata

Sample number: 4176

Contributor: John Alroy

Enterer: John Alroy

Created: 2023-03-20 19:59:53

Modified: 2023-05-30 06:22:17

Abundance distribution

6 species

1 singleton

total count 79

extrapolated richness: 8.5

Fisher's α: 1.509

geometric series k: 0.4940

Hurlbert's PIE: 0.6736

Shannon's H: 1.3220

Good's u: 0.9873

Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts.

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Register

Bos taurus	34	337 kg
Sus scrofa domesticus	27	54 kg herbivore
"Sus domesticus"
Ovis aries	10	41 kg
also 53 indeterminate ovines
Capra aegagrus hircus	3	22 kg browser-grazer
"Capra hircus"
Cervidae indet.	1
Cervus or Dama
Gallus gallus	4	29.1 g frugivore-granivore