Hobson Site
Basic information
Sample name: Hobson Site
Sample aka: 33Ms-2

Reference: J. L. Murphy. 1968. The Hobson Site: a Fort Ancient component near Middleport, Meigs County, Ohio. Kirtlandia 4:1-14 [ER 3178]
Geography
Country: United States
State: Ohio

Coordinate: 38° 59' N, 82° 5' W
Basis of coordinate: stated in text
Geography comments: "on the northern bank of Storys Run at the confluence of that stream with the Ohio River, 1 1/2 miles downstream from Middleport... at an elevation of approximately 570 feet above sea level" (coordinate based on Hobson Site)
"the site represents the early Feurt Phase, and the age of the site is estimated as approximately 1100-1200 A.D."
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Climate and habitat
Lithology: not described
Taphonomic context: ceramics, midden, settlement
Archaeology: bone tools, burials, ceramics, stone tools
Habitat comments: "Midden material averaged less than a foot in thickness"
a "complete burial", stone artifacts, worked bone, and pottery were found
structures are not discussed
Methods
Life forms: carnivores, rodents, ungulates, other small mammals, birds, turtles, fishes, clams, snails
Sampling methods: quarry
Sample size: 885
Years: 1966
Sampling comments: "excavation technique, if it can be called that, consisted largely of surface collecting behind the earth-moving equipment as the machinery passed back and forth over the site"
Metadata
Sample: 3486
Contributor: John Alroy
Enterer: John Alroy
Created: 2019-09-06 16:04:48
Modified: 2019-09-09 12:39:44
Abundance distribution
33 species
5 singletons
total count 885
Fisher's α: 6.759
geometric series k: 0.8274
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.7357
Shannon's H: 2.0483
Good's u: 0.9944
⇒ extrapolate richness estimates
Register
Catostomidae indet.2
Aplodinotus grunniens1
Ictalurus sp.3
Terrapene carolina27
Chelydra serpentina6
Meleagris gallopavo957.8 kg omnivore
Odocoileus virginianus42976 kg herbivore
Procyon lotor185.5 kg carnivore-granivore
Sciurus sp.9
Cervus canadensis9329 kg browser-grazer
Castor canadensis411 kg
Tamias striatus3113 g frugivore-insectivore
Sylvilagus floridanus21.1 kg herbivore
Ursus americanus2115 kg browser-insectivore
Canis lupus144 kg carnivore
Amblema plicata10
Quadrula cylindrica18
Quadrula metanerva wardi9
Quadrula pustulosa2
Pleurobema cordatum69
Pleurobema pyramidatum3
Pleurobema clava7
Elliptio dilatatus3
Elliptio crassidens67
Obovaria subrotunda2
Proptera alata1
Ligumia recta latissima3
Lampsilis ovata5
Lampsilis siliquoidea1
Anguispira alternata45
Anguispira kochi21
Mesodon clausus7
Triodopsis tridentata1