Wadi Taiyiba (WT6)
Basic information
Sample name: Wadi Taiyiba (WT6)
Reference: L. Maher, D. A. Macdonald, A. Alaica, J. T. Stock, and E. B. Banning. 2014. Two Early Epipaleolithic sites in Wadi Taiyiba, northern Jordan. Paléorient 40(1):73-97 [ER 3086]
Geography
Country: Jordan
Coordinate: 32° 33' N, 35° 43' E
Coordinate basis: based on nearby landmark
Time interval: Late Pleistocene
Ma: 0.01315
Age basis: radiocarbon (uncalibrated)
Geography comments: coordinate based on Taiyiba
there is a "conventional radiocarbon date of 13150 +/- 50 BP" on "animal bone"
there is a "conventional radiocarbon date of 13150 +/- 50 BP" on "animal bone"
Environment
Lithology: claystone
Taphonomic context: human accumulation
Habitat comments: the main lithology is "clay-loam"
there are abundant "basalt ground-stone implements" and the fossils "result from human activity"
there are abundant "basalt ground-stone implements" and the fossils "result from human activity"
Methods
Life forms: carnivores,rodents,ungulates,other small mammals
Sampling methods: quarry
Sample size: 161 specimens
Years: 2001
Metadata
Sample number: 3363
Contributor: John Alroy
Enterer: John Alroy
Created: 2019-08-26 21:29:17
Modified: 2019-08-26 11:29:17
Abundance distribution
12 species
2 singletons
total count 161
geometric series index: 16.4
Fisher's α: 2.999
geometric series k: 0.6913
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.8080
Shannon's H: 1.9875
Good's u: 0.9876
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| Lepus capensis | 10 | |
| Castor fiber | 1 | |
| Hystrix spp. | 1 | |
| Canis lupus | 11 | 43 kg carnivore |
| Vulpes vulpes | 19 | 5.3 kg carnivore-insectivore |
| Sus scrofa | 27 | 54 kg herbivore |
| Dama dama | 4 | 62 kg |
| Cervus elaphus | 10 | 142 kg browser-grazer |
| Gazella gazella | 58 | 21 kg |
| †Bos primigenius | 9 | |
| Ovis gmelini | 8 | 30 kg |
| Capra aegagrus | 3 | 22 kg browser-grazer |