Spillsbury Bay
Basic information
Sample name: Spillsbury Bay
Reference: J. E. Curtis. 2006. Evidence for short-term resource procurement events at the Spillsbury Bay site, Rice Lake, Ontario. Canadian Journal of Archaeology 30(1):73-100 [ER 3162]
Geography
Country: Canada
State: Ontario
Coordinate: 44° 16' N, 78° 4' W
Basis of coordinate: based on nearby landmark
Geography comments: on the northern shore of Rice Lake (shown on a map as near the Birdsall Beach Resort, basis of coordinate)
"On the basis of ceramic attributes, this layer relates primarily to the Sandbanks Phase (AD 700-1000)" and overlies a midden date as 1220 +/- 60 BP
"On the basis of ceramic attributes, this layer relates primarily to the Sandbanks Phase (AD 700-1000)" and overlies a midden date as 1220 +/- 60 BP
Climate and habitat
Lithology: not described
Taphonomic context: ceramics, human accumulation, settlement
Archaeology: bone tools, ceramics, stone tools
Habitat comments: there is a "dense deposit of cermics" indicating settlement, in addition to lithics and bone artifacts
no "hearths, pits or post moulds were encountered during the exavations"
no "hearths, pits or post moulds were encountered during the exavations"
Methods
Life forms: rodents, ungulates, birds, snakes, turtles, fishes
Sampling methods: quarry, screenwash
Sample size: 440
Years: 2001
Sampling comments: "all soil was screened through 6-mm mesh" and some "column samples" were "subsequently processed by flotation"
Metadata
Sample: 3462
Contributor: John Alroy
Enterer: John Alroy
Created: 2019-09-03 15:19:16
Modified: 2019-09-09 12:58:45
Abundance distribution
25 species
1 singleton
total count 440
Fisher's α: 5.745
geometric series k: 0.8294
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.8882
Shannon's H: 2.5271
Good's u: 0.9978
Register
| Ictalurus nebulosus | 52 | |
| Ictalurus punctatus | 5 | |
| Lepomis gibbosus | 45 | |
| Micropterus salmoides | 38 | |
| Micropterus dolomieui | 2 | |
| Perca flavescens | 23 | |
| Stizostedion sp. | 6 | |
| Catostomus commersoni | 5 | |
| Moxostoma erythrurum | 2 | |
| Ambloplites rupestris | 3 | |
| Centrarchidae indet. | 7 | |
| Ondatra zibethicus | 89 | 1.1 kg |
| Odocoileus virginianus | 75 | 76 kg herbivore |
| Alces alces | 24 | 430 kg herbivore |
| Castor canadensis | 9 | 11 kg |
| Cricetidae indet. | 8 | |
| "Muridae (rats, mice, voles)" | ||
| Erethizon dorsatum | 3 | 9.9 kg herbivore |
| Ardea herodias | 2 | 54.9 g carnivore |
| Aythya marila | 2 | 1.1 kg |
| Mergus sp. | 7 | |
| Bucephala albeola | 2 | 473 g |
| Haliaeetus leucocephalus | 1 | 4.1 kg piscivore |
| Chelydra serpentina | 16 | |
| Emydidae indet. | 12 | |
| Colubridae indet. | 2 | |