Mosquito Willie
Basic information
Sample name: Mosquito Willie
Sample aka: 42TO137
Reference: J. C. Janetski. 2006. Mosquito Willie (42TO137): a Late Archaic site on the western edge of the Great Salt Lake Desert. Journal of California and Great Basin Archaeology 26(1):77-94 [ER 3172]
Geography
Country: United States
State: Utah
County: Tooele
Coordinate: 40° 27' N, 114° 2' W
Latlng basis: based on nearby landmark
Time interval: Holocene
Max Ma: 0.00228
Min Ma: 0.00119
Age basis: radiocarbon (uncalibrated)
Geography comments: "adjacent to a marsh 20 miles south of Wendover" and about three miles south of Blue Lake (coordinate extrapolated from Blue Lake)
five uncalibrated dates on charcoal range from 2280 +/- 40 to 1190 +/- 60 BP
five uncalibrated dates on charcoal range from 2280 +/- 40 to 1190 +/- 60 BP
Environment
Lithology: not described
Taphonomic context: human accumulation
Archaeology: bone tools, hearths, stone tools
Habitat comments: "a cache and hunting camp" with cultural materials including hearths, chipped stone, ground stone, worked bone, shell and stone; no in situ ceramics were recovered, and it is not clear whether this was a settlement instead of a camp, with occupation likely to be "sporadic and seasonal"
Methods
Life forms: carnivores, rodents, ungulates, other small mammals, birds, snakes, fishes
Sampling methods: quarry, screenwash
Sample size: 558 specimens
Years: 2003
Net or trap nights: 0
Basal area status: not applicable
Sampling comments: "all sediments were screened with eight-inch screens"
Metadata
Sample no: 3478
Contributor no: John Alroy
Enterer: John Alroy
Created: 2019-09-05 14:47:34
Modified: 2019-09-09 02:47:18
Abundance distribution
Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts. Values are logged.
Statistics
12 species
1 singleton
total count 558
geometric series index: 15.7
Fisher's α: 2.159
geometric series k: 0.6315
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.6346
Shannon's H: 1.4157
Good's u: 0.9982
Register
| Bison bison (American bison) | 1 | 430.0 kg |
| Ovis canadensis (bighorn sheep) | 10 | 55.0 kg |
| Canis latrans (coyote) | 5 | 12.0 kg |
| Vulpes macrotis (kit fox) | 2 | 1.4 kg |
| Lepus spp. | 314 | |
| Sylvilagus spp. | 24 | |
| Microtus spp. | 7 | |
| Neotoma spp. | 2 | |
| Marmotini indet. | 4 | |
| "Spermophilus spp." | ||
| Anas spp. | 24 | |
| Gila spp. | 80 | |
| Colubridae indet. | 85 | |