Mullerup (unidentified)
Basic information
Sample name: Mullerup (unidentified)

Sample aka: Sarauw's Island

Reference: C. Leduc. 2013. Ungulates exploitation for subsistence and raw material, during the Maglemose culture in Denmark: the example of Mullerup site (Sarauw's Island) in Sjaelland. Danish Journal of Archaeology 1(1):62-81 [ER 3837]
Geography
Country: Denmark



Coordinate: 55.49° N, 11.21° E
Coordinate basis: estimated from map

Time interval: Holocene

Ma: 0.00831

Age basis: radiocarbon (uncalibrated)

Geography comments: shown at the western edge of Zealand in Fig. 1
coordinate based on the town of Mullerup
there several older "radiocarbon dates" (uncalibrated values not reported) plus a "recent Accelerator Mass Spectrometry radiocarbon date result on a human femur" of 8310 +/- 55 BP

Environment
Lithology: peat

Taphonomic context: human accumulation,lake deposit,settlement

Archaeology: bone tools,stone tools

Habitat comments: from a "peat layer" interpreted as "a settlement site" with "lithic production, bone tool manufacture, and subsistence activities" and the assemblage represents "a large refuse area in the lake"
it is not clear what kind of structures were present in the "dwelling area" shown in Fig. 2

Methods
Life forms: ungulates,birds,turtles

Sampling methods: quarry

Sample size: 6 specimens

Years: 1900

Sampling comments: a reanalysis of a historic collection
there was apparently a "lack of sieving" based on the size of the recovered fragments
a single Emys orbicularis specimen is presumed to be from this "unidentified" assemblage but could be from the others

Metadata
Sample number: 4193

Contributor: John Alroy

Enterer: John Alroy

Created: 2023-03-28 16:40:32

Modified: 2023-03-28 05:42:57

Abundance distribution
5 species
4 singletons
total count 6
geometric series index: 50.0
Fisher's α: 14.116
geometric series k: 0.8409
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.7333
Shannon's H: 1.5607
Good's u: 0.3939
Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts.
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Capreolus capreolus122 kg browser
Sus scrofa154 kg herbivore
"wild boar"
Cervus elaphus1142 kg browser-grazer
antler
Cygnus olor212 kg granivore
Emys orbicularis1