El Zurdo
Basic information
Sample name: El Zurdo
Sample aka: CH-159
Reference: L. M. Hodgetts. 1996. Faunal evidence from El Zurdo. Kiva 62(2):149-170 [ER 3185]
Geography
Country: Mexico
State: Chihuahua
Coordinate: 29° 24' N, 107° 55' W
Basis of coordinate: based on nearby landmark
Geography comments: "within the Babícora Basin... A large lake, the Laguna de Babícora, lies about 10 km southeast" (coordinate based on El Zurdo)
there is a radiocarbon date of 1340 +/- 80 B.P. on a corn cob and two calibrated dates of A.D 1288 and A.D. 1375 on "two human skeletons in a double burial" (intcal3 back computation of the dates yields 683 and 575 B.P.)
there is a radiocarbon date of 1340 +/- 80 B.P. on a corn cob and two calibrated dates of A.D 1288 and A.D. 1375 on "two human skeletons in a double burial" (intcal3 back computation of the dates yields 683 and 575 B.P.)
Climate and habitat
Lithology: not described
Taphonomic context: ceramics, human accumulation, midden, settlement, structures
Archaeology: buildings, burials, ceramics
Habitat comments: there are "three main roomblocks of adobe and rock wall construction, all of which have been disturbed by pothunting. There is also a patio area and a large midden deposit" and there is "polychrome pottery"
Methods
Life forms: carnivores, rodents, ungulates, other small mammals, birds, turtles, frogs, fishes
Sampling methods: quarry, screenwash
Sample size: 825
Years: 1991, 1992
Sampling comments: "There was a great deal of site disturbance fro pothunting and the large rodent population on the site no doubt helped to mix the deposits" so a listed "pig" specimen is probably intrusive
excavation "targeted the central roomblock and the midden area" and sediment was "screened through quarter-inch mesh"
counts of turkey specimens recovered from "five turkey burials" are excluded
excavation "targeted the central roomblock and the midden area" and sediment was "screened through quarter-inch mesh"
counts of turkey specimens recovered from "five turkey burials" are excluded
Metadata
Sample: 3493
Contributor: John Alroy
Enterer: John Alroy
Created: 2019-09-07 18:18:08
Modified: 2019-09-09 12:36:39
Abundance distribution

36 species
9 singletons
total count 825
standardised richness: 13.7
Fisher's α: 7.683
geometric series k: 0.8600
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.8719
Shannon's H: 2.4387
Good's u: 0.9891
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Register
Osteichthyes indet. | 15 | |
"fish" | ||
Anura indet. | 1 | |
"frog" | ||
Testudines indet. | 4 | |
"turtle" | ||
Podicipediformes indet. medium | 5 | |
Podicipediformes indet. small | 1 | |
Ciconiiformes indet. | 2 | |
Anas sp. | 5 | |
Aythya sp. | 1 | |
Oxyura jamaicensis | 1 | 629 g |
Falco sparverius | 1 | 2.7 g carnivore |
Meleagris gallopavo | 109 | 7.8 kg omnivore |
Phasianidae indet. | 23 | |
Gruiformes indet. | 4 | |
Rallidae indet. | 4 | |
Fulica americana | 99 | 724 g |
Charadriiformes indet. | 1 | |
Columbiformes indet. | 1 | |
Strigiformes indet. | 10 | |
Piciformes indet. | 2 | |
Corvus corax | 3 | omnivore |
Sylvilagus sp. | 84 | |
Lepus sp. | 196 | |
Marmotini indet. | 12 | |
"Spermophilus sp." | ||
Cynomys sp. | 19 | |
Thomomys sp. | 53 | |
Neotoma sp. | 5 | |
Microtus sp. | 2 | |
Canis sp. | 123 | |
Canidae indet. | 2 | |
Urocyon or Vulpes | ||
Ursus americanus | 1 | 115 kg browser-insectivore |
Mustela sp. | 1 | |
Taxidea taxus | 9 | 7.0 kg carnivore |
Puma concolor | 2 | 49 kg carnivore |
"Felis concolor" | ||
Lynx rufus | 2 | 9.0 kg carnivore |
Odocoileus sp. | 19 | |
Antilocapra americana | 3 | 45 kg |