Guard
Basic information
Sample name: Guard
Sample aka: 12D29
Reference: R. A. Cook, A. R. Comstock, K. R. Martin, J. Burks, W. Church, and M. French. 2015. Early village life in southeastern Indiana: recent field investigations at the Guard site (12D29). Southeastern Archaeology 34(2):95-115 [ER 3190]
Geography
Country: United States
State: Indiana
Coordinate: 39° 6' N, 84° 51' W
Basis of coordinate: based on nearby landmark
Geography comments: "at the confluence of the Great Miami and Ohio Rivers" (i.e., about 1 km east of Lawrenceburg, basis of coordinate)
there are 15 radiocarbon dates ranging from 948 +/- 42 to 654 +/- 30 BP
there are 15 radiocarbon dates ranging from 948 +/- 42 to 654 +/- 30 BP
Climate and habitat
Lithology: not described
Taphonomic context: ceramics, human accumulation, midden, settlement, structures
Archaeology: bone tools, buildings, burials, ceramics, stone tools
Habitat comments: deposits are "primarily composed of house fill (trash) beneath a uniform brown clay loam plow zone"
"Lenses of burned soil and charred structural timbers", pottery, chipped and ground stone, bone tools and adornment, and at least 21 burials are present
"Lenses of burned soil and charred structural timbers", pottery, chipped and ground stone, bone tools and adornment, and at least 21 burials are present
Methods
Life forms: carnivores, rodents, ungulates, other small mammals, birds, turtles, frogs, fishes
Sampling methods: quarry, screenwash
Sample size: 1507
Years: 2012
Sampling comments: material was "screened" but details are not given
Metadata
Sample: 3498
Contributor: John Alroy
Enterer: John Alroy
Created: 2019-09-08 15:46:09
Modified: 2019-09-09 12:32:02
Abundance distribution
20 species
2 singletons
total count 1507
Fisher's α: 3.258
geometric series k: 0.7046
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.6535
Shannon's H: 1.4626
Good's u: 0.9987
Register
| Odocoileus virginianus | 775 | 76 kg herbivore |
| Neotoma floridana | 118 | 252 g |
| Procyon lotor | 21 | 5.5 kg carnivore-granivore |
| Cervus canadensis | 16 | 329 kg browser-grazer |
| Canis latrans | 16 | 12 kg carnivore-insectivore |
| Canis lupus familiaris | 15 | 44 kg carnivore |
| "Canis familiaris" | ||
| Sciurus carolinensis | 12 | 519 g frugivore |
| Sciurus niger | 9 | 750 g |
| Vulpes vulpes | 7 | 5.3 kg carnivore-insectivore |
| Didelphis virginiana | 6 | 2.2 kg insectivore-carnivore |
| Canis lupus | 5 | 44 kg carnivore |
| Sylvilagus floridanus | 3 | 1.1 kg herbivore |
| Lepus sp. | 3 | |
| Microtus pennsylvanicus | 2 | 35.7 g |
| Castor canadensis | 1 | 11 kg |
| Urocyon cinereoargenteus | 1 | 4.1 kg frugivore-carnivore |
| Meleagris gallopavo | 89 | 7.8 kg omnivore |
| Osteichthyes indet. | 403 | |
| Terrapene carolina | 2 | |
| Anura indet. | 3 | |