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
Coordinate 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

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

Sampling comments: "all sediments were screened with eight-inch screens"

Metadata
Sample number: 3478

Contributor: John Alroy

Enterer: John Alroy

Created: 2019-09-05 14:47:34

Modified: 2019-09-09 02:47:18

Abundance distribution
12 species
1 singleton
total count 558
geometric series index: 15.7
Fisher's α: 2.159
geometric series k: 0.5929
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.6346
Shannon's H: 1.4157
Good's u: 0.9982
Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts.
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