Sunshine Locality (Unit B)
Basic information
Sample name: Sunshine Locality (Unit B)
Reference: G. Huckleberry, C. Beck, G. T. Jones, A. Holmes, M. Cannon, S. Livingston, and J. M. Broughton. 2001. Terminal Pleistocene/early Holocene environmental change at the Sunshine Locality, north-central Nevada, U.S.A.. Quaternary Research 55:303-312 [ER 3215]
Geography
Country: United States
State: Nevada
Coordinate: 39° 43' N, 115° 16' W
Coordinate basis: based on nearby landmark
Time interval: Holocene
Section: 3215
Unit number: 2
Unit order: above to below
Ma: 0.00812
Age basis: radiocarbon (uncalibrated)
Geography comments: "in southern Long Valley, about 60 km northwest of Ely" and shown as immediately west of the Butte Mountains (coordinate based on Butte Mountains)
there is a single uncalibrated date of 8120 +/- 70 14C yr B.P.
there is a single uncalibrated date of 8120 +/- 70 14C yr B.P.
Environment
Lithology: sandstone
Taphonomic context: aeolian deposit
Archaeology: stone tools
Habitat comments: "well-sorted eolian sands"
stone tools are inventoried
stone tools are inventoried
Methods
Life forms: rodents
Sampling methods: quarry
Sample size: 22 specimens
Years: 1993
Sampling comments: "In 1993, a 5 x 6 m block was excavated 4 m deep"
there is no discussion of screenwashing
there is no discussion of screenwashing
Metadata
Sample number: 3530
Contributor: John Alroy
Enterer: John Alroy
Created: 2019-09-11 22:19:03
Modified: 2023-04-29 01:55:35
Abundance distribution
3 species
1 singleton
total count 22
geometric series index: 6.2
Fisher's α: 0.939
geometric series k: 0.2294
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.2078
Shannon's H: 0.4851
Good's u: 0.9585
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