McKinley Site (Zone B)
Basic information
Sample name: McKinley Site (Zone B)
Reference: R. M. Little. 1971. The McKinley Site. Proceedings of the Indiana Academy of Science 81:65-70 [ER 3147]
Geography
Country: United States
State: Indiana
Coordinate: 40° 3' N, 86° 1' W
Basis of coordinate: based on nearby landmark
Geography comments: "just south of Noblesville" (basis of coordinate)
there were "three periods of occupation from Late Archaic to Early Woodland and finally during the contact period of 200 years ago"; these respectively correspond to zones A, B, and C, so A is about 3 to 1 BCE and B is about 1000 to 200 BCE
there were "three periods of occupation from Late Archaic to Early Woodland and finally during the contact period of 200 years ago"; these respectively correspond to zones A, B, and C, so A is about 3 to 1 BCE and B is about 1000 to 200 BCE
Climate and habitat
Lithology: not described
Taphonomic context: human accumulation, settlement, structures
Archaeology: bone tools, buildings, burials, stone tools
Habitat comments: "soil" with "many shell fragments" in addition to artifacts
"bones and bone fragments" were "used for food"
there are numerous burials in zones A and B, there are "pits and post holes", and stone and bone tools are inventoried, but ceramics are not discussed
"bones and bone fragments" were "used for food"
there are numerous burials in zones A and B, there are "pits and post holes", and stone and bone tools are inventoried, but ceramics are not discussed
Methods
Life forms: carnivores, rodents, ungulates, other small mammals, turtles
Sampling methods: quarry
Sample size: 1792
Years: 1953
Sampling comments: apparently not screenwashed
Metadata
Sample: 3442
Contributor: John Alroy
Enterer: John Alroy
Created: 2019-09-01 20:31:48
Modified: 2019-09-09 13:14:15
Abundance distribution
10 species
1 singleton
total count 1792
Fisher's α: 1.397
geometric series k: 0.4398
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.1749
Shannon's H: 0.4582
Good's u: 0.9994
Register
| Odocoileus virginianus | 1625 | 76 kg herbivore |
| Testudines indet. | 72 | |
| Marmota monax | 11 | 4.5 kg |
| Sciurus niger | 9 | 750 g |
| Sciurus carolinensis | 41 | 519 g frugivore |
| Procyon lotor | 22 | 5.5 kg carnivore-granivore |
| Sylvilagus floridanus | 5 | 1.1 kg herbivore |
| Didelphis virginiana | 1 | 2.2 kg insectivore-carnivore |
| Ondatra zibethicus | 3 | 1.1 kg |
| Canis lupus familiaris | 3 | 44 kg carnivore |
| "Canis familiaris" | ||