Table 4.
Summary of key data (NISP, MNI, species identified, average relative abundances and number of digested remains); for the site in general, samples (as mean/median values) and contexts discussed in the paper. More detail is provided in the electronic supplementary material, S1.
| data source | general counts |
abundances, average |
digestion, counts |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ΣNISP | ΣMNI | species no. | only bones | incl. teeth | incisor | molar | hum & fem | ||||
| general | site overall | 4484 | 465 | 4 | 10.18% | 11.98% | 96 | 216 | 22 | ||
| samples | median | 8 | 1.5 | 1 | 5.59% | 6.37% | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
| mean | 19.67 | 2.12 | 1.50 | 7.08% | 8.22% | 0.42 | 0.95 | 0.10 | |||
| context | phase | type | |||||||||
| key contexts | 28 | 3 | outdoor windblown sand with charcoal | 83 | 5 | 3 | 20.71% | 22.98% | 8 | 10 | 0 |
| 33 | 3 | outdoor windblown sand with stones | 1138 | 42 | 3 | 24.61% | 30.44% | 78 | 178 | 19 | |
| 1112 | 6 | outdoor loam and stone infill | 23 | 1 | 1 | 32.37% | 29.54% | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 1015 | 7 | outdoor windblown sand | 30 | 8 | 2 | 11.67% | 10.42% | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| contexts mentioned | 1022 | 1 | outdoor sand layer | 6 | 2 | 2 | 3.52% | 4.58% | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 279 | 2 | outdoor layer with sand and charcoal | 36 | 4 | 3 | 9.42% | 12.48% | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 306 | 2 | outdoor soil infill | 58 | 5 | 3 | 9.76% | 13.32% | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 1171 | 2 | outdoor sand infill | 6 | 2 | 2 | 3.33% | 3.68% | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 99 | 3 | stone wall | 22 | 3 | 3 | 7.03% | 8.66% | 0 | 1 | 0 | |
| 226 | 3 | indoor floor deposit | 43 | 3 | 2 | 10.90% | 14.03% | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 1205 | 3 | outdoor windblown sand with charcoal | 35 | 3 | 1 | 8.24% | 8.58% | 0 | 1 | 0 | |
| 96 | 4 | outdoor soil deposit | 79 | 4 | 3 | 16.07% | 22.88% | 1 | 1 | 1 | |
| 107 | 4 | entrance soil and rubble deposit | 84 | 7 | 2 | 15.13% | 16.99% | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| context | phase | type | |||||||||
| 200 | 4 | entrance stone passageway | 47 | 5 | 2 | 15.03% | 15.62% | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 737 | 4 | indoor hearth | 2 | 1 | 1 | 3.33% | 4.41% | 1 | 0 | 0 | |
| 753 | 4 | indoor loam infill | 51 | 5 | 2 | 20.84% | 18.68% | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 1020 | 4 | abandonment soil and stone deposit | 14 | 2 | 1 | 5.09% | 7.43% | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 1072 | 4 | indoor loam infill | 45 | 3 | 2 | 24.75% | 22.00% | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 108 | 5 | later structure, windblown sand with stones | 24 | 3 | 3 | 11.62% | 12.70% | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 137 | 5 | abandonment rubble | 18 | 4 | 4 | 5.11% | 6.35% | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 1078 | 5 | abandonment rubble | 27 | 3 | 3 | 30.00% | 26.47% | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 1101 | 7 | outdoor windblown sand | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3.33% | 2.94% | 0 | 0 | 0 | |