Agiabir (Period I - Narhan culture)
Basic information
Sample name: Agiabir (Period I - Narhan culture)
Reference: P. P. Joglekar and A. K. Singh. 2017. Animal remains from the Pre-Chalcolithic (Neolithic) context at Agiabir, District Mirzapur in Uttar Pradesh. Bulletin of the Deccan College Post-Graduate and Research Institute 77:55-64 [ER 3377]
Geography
Country: India
State: Uttar Pradesh
Coordinate: 25° 13' N, 82° 38' E
Coordinate basis: stated in text
Time interval: Holocene
Max Ma: 0.00325
Min Ma: 0.00285
Age basis: other
Geography comments: "The multi-culture site of Agiabir is located on the left bank of river Ganga near Katka railway station in district Mirzapur, Uttar Pradesh"
"Five cultural periods are known due to previous excavations"
"This article is based on the faunal material recovered from three
trenches belonging to Period I (Narhan culture: 1300-900 B.C.)"
"Five cultural periods are known due to previous excavations"
"This article is based on the faunal material recovered from three
trenches belonging to Period I (Narhan culture: 1300-900 B.C.)"
Environment
Lithology: not described
Taphonomic context: human accumulation,settlement
Habitat comments: The article entirely focuses on the faunal remains uncovered from Period I, without any mention of other artefacts that may have been found in the three study trenches. It's likely that there were several artefacts and/or other archaeological features found, although it's difficult to say for certain as this aspect is not covered in the paper.
"A few fragments showed marks of various bone modifications" including cut marks, butchering marks, and "marks of charring of variable degree"
"A few fragments showed marks of various bone modifications" including cut marks, butchering marks, and "marks of charring of variable degree"
Methods
Life forms: carnivores,ungulates,fishes,clams
Sampling methods: quarry
Sample size: 112 specimens
Sampling comments: "The site was first excavated for three field seasons between 1999 and 2001" ... "It was excavated again in 2005-07 for two field seasons"
"In 2016 ten trenches were dug ... to trace the Pre-Chalcolithic deposit"
"The evidence of Pre-Chalcolithic (Neolithic Period) deposit was found from Trench 14, Trench 16 and Trench 21"
"This article is based on the faunal material recovered from these three trenches belonging to Period I"
The total NISP data was used for this sample as all three trenches belong to the same time period
"In 2016 ten trenches were dug ... to trace the Pre-Chalcolithic deposit"
"The evidence of Pre-Chalcolithic (Neolithic Period) deposit was found from Trench 14, Trench 16 and Trench 21"
"This article is based on the faunal material recovered from these three trenches belonging to Period I"
The total NISP data was used for this sample as all three trenches belong to the same time period
Metadata
Sample number: 3750
Contributor: Benjamin Carter
Enterer: Benjamin Carter
Created: 2021-05-29 14:14:48
Modified: 2021-05-29 04:49:12
Abundance distribution
9 species
3 singletons
total count 112
extrapolated richness: 17.7
Fisher's α: 2.306
geometric series k: 0.5739
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.4065
Shannon's H: 0.9785
Good's u: 0.9734
Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts.
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| Canis sp. | 1 | |
| Axis axis | 1 | 40 kg browser-grazer |
| Cervus unicolor | 8 | 100 kg grazer-browser |
| Muntiacus vaginalis | 3 | |
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| Sus scrofa | 3 | 54 kg herbivore |
| Sperata seenghala | 2 | |
| Lamellidens sp. | 1 | |
Current reference:
Shotwell 1968 (ER 3992)