Burris
Basic information
Sample name: Burris

Sample aka: 41VT66

Reference: B. S. Shaffer. 1989. Late prehistoric faunal subsistence on the south Texas plains: analysis of the vertebrate remains from 41VT66, Victoria County. Plains Anthropologist 34:171-178 [ER 3145]
Geography
Country: United States

State: Texas


Coordinate: 28° 44' N, 97° 10' W
Coordinate basis: based on nearby landmark

Time interval: Holocene

Ma: 0.00045

Age basis: radiocarbon

Geography comments: "on a bluff overlooking Coleto Creek, a tributary of the Guadalupe River" (coordinate based on Coleto Creek Reservoir)
"Radiocarbon dates from Feature 3 place the component in the fifteenth century A.D." (i.e., approximately 450 B.P.)

Environment
Lithology: not described

Taphonomic context: human accumulation,midden

Archaeology: ceramics,stone tools,other artifacts

Habitat comments: most material is from "a Late Prehistoric animal processing site or midden area" with numerous tools such as "Perdiz arrow points, utilized flakes, uniface tools, cores, shell, lithic debitage, bone tempered pottery"

Methods
Life forms: carnivores,rodents,ungulates,other small mammals,birds,snakes,turtles,fishes

Sampling methods: quarry,screenwash

Sample size: 146 specimens

Years: 1987

Sampling comments: "units were excavated in 10 cm levels. The recovered material was dry screened through 1/4 inch hardware cloth"

Metadata
Sample number: 3439

Contributor: John Alroy

Enterer: John Alroy

Created: 2019-09-01 18:13:02

Modified: 2023-04-03 08:48:38

Abundance distribution
13 species
4 singletons
total count 146
geometric series index: 24.6
Fisher's α: 3.449
geometric series k: 0.7035
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.7160
Shannon's H: 1.6618
Good's u: 0.9729
Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts.
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