Luluyyah Fort
Basic information
Sample name: Luluyyah Fort
Reference: M. Uerpmann. 2017. Faunal remains from the Islamic fort at Luluyyah (Sharjah, UAE). Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy 28(1):2-10 [ER 3830]
Geography
Country: United Arab Emirates
Coordinate: 25° 22' 31" N, 56° 21' 22" E
Coordinate basis: based on nearby landmark
Time interval: Holocene
Max Ma: 0.0007
Min Ma: 0.0006
Age basis: other
Geography comments: "just north of Khor Fakkan in the Emirate of Sharjah. It lies at Ra's Luluyyah, about 1 km from the coast"
coordinate based on Mindat data for Ra's Lūlayyah, which is clearly the same thing
"The site can be dated to the late thirteenth and early fourteenth century CE based on traded Chinese ware"
coordinate based on Mindat data for Ra's Lūlayyah, which is clearly the same thing
"The site can be dated to the late thirteenth and early fourteenth century CE based on traded Chinese ware"
Environment
Lithology: not described
Taphonomic context: human accumulation
Archaeology: buildings
Habitat comments: "animal bone refuse left behind by the former inhabitants of the fort within the small occupied area on the hilltop... The large majority of faunal remains from Luluyyah come from slaughtering or kitchen waste"
Methods
Life forms: carnivores,ungulates,marine mammals,other small mammals,birds,turtles,fishes,crustaceans
Sampling methods: quarry
Sample size: 920 specimens
Sampling comments: "Excavations at the fort were conducted in 2000 and 2001 by the Japanese Archaeological Mission to the UAE under the directorship of Tatsuo and Hanae Sasaki... sieving was not used... the faunal remains consist of hand-picked finds... Molluscs and crustaceans were excluded from the present analyses" but crabs are listed in the table, so only molluscs were actually not counted
Metadata
Sample number: 4179
Contributor: John Alroy
Enterer: John Alroy
Created: 2023-03-24 16:10:55
Modified: 2023-03-24 05:10:55
Abundance distribution
32 species
7 singletons
total count 920
geometric series index: 48.5
Fisher's α: 6.440
geometric series k: 0.8411
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.8906
Shannon's H: 2.5758
Good's u: 0.9924
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