Can Roqueta II
Basic information
Sample name: Can Roqueta II
Reference: S. Albizuri, J. Maroto, J. Nadal, T. Majó, A. Sánchez Marco, X. Carlus, A. Rodriguez, and A. Palomo. 2015. Wild carnivore and wild bird deposits in an agro-pastoral community during the Bronze Age: Can Roqueta II (northeast Iberian Peninsula). Munibe Antropologia-Arkeologia 66:163-184 [ER 3945]
Geography
Country: Spain
Coordinate: 41.54° N, 2.13° E
Latlng basis: estimated from map
Time interval: Holocene
Max Ma: 0.00359
Min Ma: 0.003265
Age basis: radiocarbon (uncalibrated)
Geography comments: "in Sabadell at a distance of just 30 km from Barcelona"
there are two dates of 3590 +/- 90 BP and 3265 +/- 45 BP
there are two dates of 3590 +/- 90 BP and 3265 +/- 45 BP
Environment
Lithology: siliciclastic (mixed)
Taphonomic context: human accumulation, settlement
Archaeology: burials, ceramics, metal tools
Habitat comments: "on the sandy and clayey soils surrounding the basin... A total of 121 pits have been documented... over a surface area of 11 ha... The site was occupied" and there are "pottery items for storage and cooking, saddle querns, crucibles, moulds and smelting remains. Pits/silos have been recorded containing material as- sociated with dwelling, feeding, production and storage and with funerary and ritual uses... Other semi-excavated dwelling structures have been documented – pit-houses... there are also structures that contain animal offerings without having human remains... 4881 remains were concentrated in the 47 funerary structures of 49 recorded in the central area of the site"
Methods
Life forms: carnivores, ungulates, other small mammals, birds, lizards, snakes, frogs
Sampling methods: quarry
Sample size: 5292 specimens
Years: 1999, 2000
Net or trap nights: 0
Basal area status: not applicable
Sampling comments: the counts are broken down based on whether they were recovered from "funerary structures", "ritual structures", or as "intrusive or casual in funerary structures or additional installions"
screening and sieving aren't mentioned
screening and sieving aren't mentioned
Metadata
Sample no: 4351
Contributor no: John Alroy
Enterer: John Alroy
Created: 2023-08-23 13:38:42
Modified: 2023-08-23 03:38:42
Abundance distribution
Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts. Values are logged.
Statistics
16 species
1 singleton
total count 5292
geometric series index: 18.6
Fisher's α: 2.035
geometric series k: 0.6408
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.8098
Shannon's H: 1.9023
Good's u: 0.9998
Register
| Caprini indet. | 875 | |
| Ovis aries or Capra hircus | ||
| Bos taurus (cow) | 301 | |
| Sus scrofa domesticus (pig) | 1584 | |
| "Sus domesticus" | ||
| Canis lupus familiaris (gray wolf) | 1239 | 43.0 kg |
| "Canis familiaris" | ||
| Canis cf. lupus (gray wolf) | 2 | 43.0 kg |
| Vulpes vulpes (red fox) | 131 | |
| Milvus milvus | 33 | 947.0 g |
| Corvus sp. | 5 | |
| corone or frugilegus | ||
| Alectoris rufa | 1 | 516.0 g |
| Fulica atra | 3 | 30.0 g |
| Meles meles (European badger) | 29 | 11.0 kg |
| Oryctolagus cuniculus | 249 | 2.5 kg |
| Erinaceus europaeus | 13 | |
| Lacerta sp. | 270 | |
| Serpentes indet. | 519 | |
| Anura indet. | 38 | |