Can Roqueta II
Basic information
Sample name: Can Roqueta II

Reference: S. Albizuri, J. Maroto, J. Nadal, T. Majó, A. Sânchez 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
Coordinate 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

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

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

Metadata
Sample number: 4351

Contributor: John Alroy

Enterer: John Alroy

Created: 2023-08-23 13:38:42

Modified: 2023-08-23 03:38:42

Abundance distribution
16 species
1 singleton
total count 5292
geometric series index: 18.6
Fisher's α: 2.035
geometric series k: 0.6119
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.8098
Shannon's H: 1.9023
Good's u: 0.9998
Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts.
Register
Caprini indet.875
Ovis aries or Capra hircus
Bos taurus301337 kg
Sus scrofa domesticus158454 kg herbivore
"Sus domesticus"
Canis lupus familiaris123943 kg carnivore
"Canis familiaris"
Canis cf. lupus243 kg carnivore
Vulpes vulpes1315.3 kg carnivore-insectivore
Milvus milvus33947 g
Corvus sp.5
corone or frugilegus
Alectoris rufa1516 g
Fulica atra330.0 g omnivore
Meles meles2911 kg invertivore-herbivore
Oryctolagus cuniculus2492.5 kg browser-grazer
Erinaceus europaeus13
Lacerta sp.270
Serpentes indet.519
Anura indet.38