Eleventh Hour Site (Room 7, Layer 2)
Basic information
Sample name: Eleventh Hour Site (Room 7, Layer 2)
Sample aka: 29SJ 633
Reference: W. B. Gillespie. 1991. Faunal remains from 29SJ 633. In Excavations at 29SJ 633: The Eleventh Hour Site, Chaco Canyon, New Mexico (eds. F. J. Mathien), pp. 243-315 [ER 3222]
Geography
Country: United States
State: New Mexico
Coordinate: 36° 3' N, 107° 58' W
Coordinate basis: based on nearby landmark
Time interval: Holocene
Section: 3222
Unit number: 2
Unit order: above to below
Max Ma: 0.0009
Min Ma: 0.0007
Age basis: other
Geography comments: "in Marcia's Rincon on the south side of Chaco Canyon in an area across the Chaco Wash from the park's Visitor's Center" (coordinate based on Chaco Wash)
dated at "late 1000s-mid 1100s and late 1100s-early 1200s" primarily on ceramic data, with no radiocarbon dating
dated at "late 1000s-mid 1100s and late 1100s-early 1200s" primarily on ceramic data, with no radiocarbon dating
Environment
Lithology: sandstone
Taphonomic context: human accumulation,midden
Archaeology: buildings,ceramics,stone tools
Habitat comments: "a 12-15-room Pueblo III house"
"a hard, white-gray layer" with "sandstone building blocks and chinking material" intermixed with gray-brown, melted adobe mortar and sand" including sherds, chipped stone, and bones
there are bone tools and burials elsewhere on the site
"a hard, white-gray layer" with "sandstone building blocks and chinking material" intermixed with gray-brown, melted adobe mortar and sand" including sherds, chipped stone, and bones
there are bone tools and burials elsewhere on the site
Methods
Life forms: carnivores,rodents,other small mammals,birds
Sampling methods: quarry,screenwash
Sample size: 99 specimens
Sampling comments: "all soils removed were put through a 1/4-in.-mesh screen"
Metadata
Sample number: 3544
Contributor: John Alroy
Enterer: John Alroy
Created: 2019-09-17 14:05:42
Modified: 2023-04-29 02:13:01
Abundance distribution
10 species
5 singletons
total count 99
geometric series index: 23.7
Fisher's α: 2.777
geometric series k: 0.6489
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.6796
Shannon's H: 1.4657
Good's u: 0.9497
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| Sylvilagus cf. audubonii | 49 | 869 g |
| Lepus californicus | 17 | 2.1 kg |
| Cynomys gunnisoni | 7 | |
| Thomomys bottae | 1 | 128 g |
| Dipodomys ordii | 1 | 48.9 g |
| Neotoma sp. | 1 | |
| Taxidea taxus | 2 | 7.0 kg carnivore |
| Callipepla sp. | 1 | |
| Meleagris gallopavo | 19 | 7.8 kg omnivore |
| Eremophila alpestris | 1 | 2.4 g insectivore-granivore |