Smakkerup Huse
Basic information
Sample name: Smakkerup Huse

Reference: T. D. Price, A. B. Gebauer, S. Ulfeldt Hede, C. Sedlacek Larsen, N. Noe-Nygaard, S. L. R. Mason, J. Nielsen, and D. Perry. 2001. Smakkerup Huse: a Mesolithic settlement in NW Zealand, Denmark. Journal of Field Archaeology 28(1/2):45-67 [ER 3939]
Geography
Country: Denmark


Coordinate: 55.70° N, 11.23° E
Coordinate basis: estimated from map

Time interval: Holocene

Max Ma: 0.0061

Min Ma: 0.005039

Age basis: radiocarbon (calibrated)

Geography comments: "at the headwaters of a former fjord... the Saltbaek Vig" and "at the mouth of the Bregninge stream" (coordinate estimated from northwest of Smakkerup at the head of Saltbaek Vig)
minimum elevation is 2.5 m
assigned to the middle and late Ertebolle phases of the Mesolithic
there are uncalibrated 14C dates of 5959 +/- 68 and 5319 +/- 65 B.P. from layer 7G, 5060 +/- 61 B.P. from the underlying layer 7, and 6060 +/- 60, 6100 +/- 60, and 5650 +/- 70 B.P. from layer 8

Environment
Lithology: sandstone

Taphonomic context: human accumulation,settlement

Archaeology: bone tools,ceramics,stone tools,other artifacts

Habitat comments: some of the "cultural material" was reworked into layer 4, but most of the cultural finds are from layer 7, a "grey sand with gravel", and layer 8, a "grey sand/gytja"
the fossils are also mostly from layer 7, with some material from layers 5, 7G, and 8
there are stone axes, blades, cores, and flakes, plus butchered bone, bone and antler tools, potsherd, "worked wood" including "pieces of dugout canoes", an "archery bow", and "vertical wooden stakes" but structures per se are not discussed

Methods
Life forms: carnivores,rodents,ungulates,marine mammals,other small mammals,birds,frogs,fishes

Sampling methods: quarry,screenwash

Sample size: 5336 specimens

Years: 1989, 1995 - 1997

Sampling comments: "Sediments were water-screened through 4 mm sieves"

Metadata
Sample number: 4344

Contributor: John Alroy

Enterer: John Alroy

Created: 2023-08-14 19:24:47

Modified: 2023-08-14 09:24:47

Abundance distribution
35 species
4 singletons
total count 5336
geometric series index: 49.3
Fisher's α: 5.022
geometric series k: 0.8034
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.8228
Shannon's H: 2.0421
Good's u: 0.9993
Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts.
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