Deadman Slough (Excavation Unit)
Basic information
Sample name: Deadman Slough (Excavation Unit)

Sample aka: 47PR46

Reference: S. R. Kuehn. 1998. New evidence for Late Paleoindian-Early Archaic subsistence behavior in the Western Great Lakes. American Antiquity 63(3):457-476 [ER 3167]
Geography
Country: United States

State: Wisconsin

County: Price

Coordinate: 46° 52' N, 91° 42' W
Latlng basis: based on nearby landmark

Time interval: Holocene

Max Ma: 0.01

Min Ma: 0.008

Age basis: zone

Geography comments: "a multicomponent site overlooking the confluence of the Flambeau River and Deadman Slough" (about 3 km southeast of Oxbo, basis of coordinate)
from "10, 000 B.P. to 8000 B.P., based on similarities in artifact styles with dated sites outside this region"

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Environment
Lithology: not described

Taphonomic context: human accumulation

Archaeology: stone tools

Habitat comments: "A large variety of artifacts were recovered, and two pit features and eight bone concentration lenses were identified"
all artifacts are stone and there are no bone tools, ceramics, or structures

Methods
Life forms: rodents, ungulates, birds, turtles, fishes, clams

Sampling methods: quarry, screenwash

Sample size: 264 specimens

Years: 1991

Net or trap nights: 0

Basal area status: not applicable

Sampling comments: material "was recovered through 1/4-inch dry screening of sediments" and "flotation of soil samples"

Metadata
Sample no: 3468

Contributor no: John Alroy

Enterer: John Alroy

Created: 2019-09-04 10:06:11

Modified: 2019-09-09 02:55:29

Abundance distribution
Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts. Values are logged.
Statistics
6 species
1 singleton
total count 264
geometric series index: 9.2
Fisher's α: 1.093
geometric series k: 0.3917
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.309
Shannon's H: 0.659
Good's u: 0.9963
Register
Odocoileus virginianus (white-tailed deer)21
Erethizon dorsatum 1
Testudines indet.217
Aves indet.21
Osteichthyes indet.2
Unionida indet.2
"mussel"