Food Utility Indices (FUI) for Emergent Mississippian material from the Range and Cahokia Sites. After Kelley 1997, Table 4.5.

 

Cahokia EM

Range EM

Standard Deer*

Low Utility

     

FUI NISP

16

329

129

%

5.7

48.7

59.5

Mid Utility

     

FUI NISP

210

254

65

%

74.5

37.6

29.0

High Utility

     

FUI NISP

56

92

25

%

19.8

13.6

11.5

       

Total NISP

282

675

217

*Deer figures derived from Style and Purdue 1996, table 5.22

Kelly, L.S. 1997. Patterns of Faunal Exploitation at Cahokia. In Cahokia: Domination and Ideology in the Mississippian World, edited by T.R. Pauketat and T.E. Emerson, pp. 60-88. University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln.