Eleventh Hour Site (Room 7, Layer 3)
Basic information
Sample name: Eleventh Hour Site (Room 7, Layer 3)

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


County: San Juan


Coordinate: 36° 3' N, 107° 58' W
Coordinate basis: based on nearby landmark

Time interval: Holocene

Section: 3222

Unit number: 3

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

Environment
Lithology: sandstone

Taphonomic context: human accumulation,midden

Archaeology: buildings,ceramics,stone tools

Habitat comments: "a 12-15-room Pueblo III house"
"a moist, brown, sandy soil with considerable amounts of charcoal, adobe, and dense concentrations of artifacts" including sherds, chipped stone, and bones
there are bone tools and burials elsewhere on the site

Methods
Life forms: carnivores,rodents,ungulates,other small mammals,birds

Sampling methods: quarry,screenwash

Sample size: 182 specimens

Sampling comments: "all soils removed were put through a 1/4-in.-mesh screen"

Metadata
Sample number: 3545

Contributor: John Alroy

Enterer: John Alroy

Created: 2019-09-17 14:07:13

Modified: 2023-04-29 02:12:59

Abundance distribution
9 species
1 singleton
total count 182
geometric series index: 12.8
Fisher's α: 1.988
geometric series k: 0.5829
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.6955
Shannon's H: 1.4525
Good's u: 0.9946
Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts.
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