McLelland
Basic information
Sample name: McLelland
Sample aka: 16BO236
Reference: D. B. Kelley, D. G. Hunter, P. S. Gardner, D. C. Weinand, A. Tiné, and L. L. Tieszen. 1996. The McLelland and Joe Clark sites: Protohistoric-Historic Caddo farmsteads in the Red River valley of northwest Louisiana. Southeastern Archaeology 15(1):81-102 [ER 3164]
Geography
Country: United States
State: Louisiana
Coordinate: 32° 12' N, 93° 27' W
Latlng basis: based on nearby landmark
Time interval: Holocene
Max Ma: 0.00024
Min Ma: 0.00018
Age basis: radiocarbon (uncalibrated)
Geography comments: "identified during a survey of access roads for Lock and Dam No. 5 of the Red River Waterway... about 30 km south of Shreveport"
this is apparently the Red River dam immediately to the west of the Loggy Bayou Wildlife Management Area (coordinate based on Loggy Bayou)
there are two accepted, uncalibrated dates on charcoal of 240 +/- 60 and 180 +/- 50 B.P.
this is apparently the Red River dam immediately to the west of the Loggy Bayou Wildlife Management Area (coordinate based on Loggy Bayou)
there are two accepted, uncalibrated dates on charcoal of 240 +/- 60 and 180 +/- 50 B.P.
Environment
Lithology: siliciclastic (mixed)
Taphonomic context: human accumulation, midden, settlement
Archaeology: buildings, ceramics
Habitat comments: "The midden was resting on a yellowish red sandy loam... Overlying the midden... was a deposit of dark brown clay or silty clay" that "represents a distal overbank deposit" but the lithology of the midden per se is not described
remains of houses and ceramics were found
remains of houses and ceramics were found
Methods
Life forms: carnivores, primates, rodents, ungulates, other small mammals, birds, lizards, snakes, turtles, other reptiles, frogs, fishes
Sampling methods: quarry, screenwash
Sample size: 1072 specimens
Net or trap nights: 0
Basal area status: not applicable
Sampling comments: "Flotation of the feature fill" was used, and there is brief mention of "waterscreen samples" that yielded beans
Metadata
Sample no: 3464
Contributor no: John Alroy
Enterer: John Alroy
Created: 2019-09-03 21:37:42
Modified: 2023-02-25 10:56:16
Abundance distribution
Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts. Values are logged.
Statistics
46 species
17 singletons
total count 1072
geometric series index: 90.4
Fisher's α: 9.773
geometric series k: 0.873
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.786
Shannon's H: 2.2711
Good's u: 0.9842
Register
| Didelphis virginiana (Virginia opossum) | 9 | 1.0 kg |
| Sylvilagus cf. aquaticus | 8 | 1.8 kg |
| Sciurus spp. | 27 | |
| Peromyscus spp. | 2 | |
| Sigmodon hispidus | 37 | 89.4 g |
| Homo sapiens (human) | 1 | 64.0 kg |
| Canis cf. latrans (coyote) | 1 | 12.0 kg |
| Urocyon cinereoargenteus (gray fox) | 2 | 4.1 kg |
| Ursus americanus (American black bear) | 1 | 115.0 kg |
| Procyon lotor (raccoon) | 29 | 5.5 kg |
| Puma concolor (cougar) | 1 | |
| "Felis concolor" | ||
| Mustelinae indet. | 1 | |
| "Mustela spp." | ||
| Odocoileus virginianus (white-tailed deer) | 451 | |
| Bison bison (American bison) | 2 | 430.0 kg |
| Ardeidae indet. | 1 | |
| Anas spp. | 34 | |
| Cygnus spp. | 1 | |
| Meleagris gallopavo | 29 | 7.8 kg |
| Grus canadensis | 2 | 8.3 g |
| Ectopistes migratorius | 3 | |
| Emberizidae indet. | 1 | |
| Lithobates spp. | 2 | |
| "Rana spp." | ||
| Alligator mississippiensis | 1 | |
| Chelydridae indet. | 1 | |
| Kinosternidae indet. | 2 | |
| Chrysemys picta | 1 | |
| Graptemys spp. | 1 | |
| Terrapene carolina | 40 | |
| Apalone spp. | 10 | |
| Anolis cf. carolinensis | 3 | |
| Phrynostomatidae indet. | 1 | |
| Colubridae indet. | 18 | |
| Viperidae indet. | 27 | |
| Lepisosteus spatula | 3 | |
| Amia calva | 160 | |
| Dorosoma spp. | 1 | |
| Catostomidae indet. | 28 | |
| Carpiodes spp. | 1 | |
| Ictiobus spp. | 4 | |
| Ictalurus spp. | 1 | |
| tentatively referred | ||
| Ameiurus spp. | 1 | |
| Morone spp. | 3 | |
| Centrarchidae indet. | 15 | |
| Lepomis spp. | 13 | |
| Pomoxis spp. | 5 | |
| Aplodinotus grunniens | 87 | |