% NISP for Types of Birds and Vertebrates Recovered from the Cahokia Site by Archaeological Phase. After Kelley 1997, Table 4.3.

 

Loyd

Merrell

Edelhardt

Lohmann

Stirling ICT

J Ramey Md.*

15A*

Kunnemann*

Moorehead

Birds

                 

aquatic

63.2

41.7

86.9

87.9

83.3

76.6

84.6

70.4

61.3

semiaquatic

26.3

33.3

2.3

10.5

0.0

9.4

1.3

0.0

0.0

terrestrial

10.5

25.0

10.8

1.7

16.7

14.1

14.1

29.6

38.7

Vertebrates

                 

aquatic

96.6

79.1

88.6

29.7

8.9

29.7

36.7

22.8

46.4

semiaquatic

0.7

2.3

0.3

2.2

0.0

2.1

0.5

0.0

0.0

terrestrial

2.7

18.6

11.1

68.1

91.1

68.2

62.8

77.2

53.6

*elite context

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.