Cueva del Angel
Basic information
Sample name: Cueva del Angel
Reference: C. B. Ruíz, D. B. Ortega, M. Caparrós, A. M. Moigne, V. Celiberti, A. Testu, D. Barsky, O. Notter, J. A. R. Cantal, M. P. Rodríguez, M. I. C. León, G. M. Gómez, S. Khatib, T. Saos, S. Gregoire, S. Bailón, J. A. Solano, A. L. Cabral Mesa, A. Djerrab, I. G. Hedley, S. Abdessadok, G. B. Llasat, N. Astier, L. Bertin, N. Boulbes, D. Cauche, A. Filoux, C. Hanquet, C. Milizia, J. Moutoussamy, E. Rossoni, L. V. Bermejo, and H. de Lumley. 2011. The Cueva del Angel (Lucena, Spain): An Acheulean hunters habitat in the South of the Iberian Peninsula. Quaternary International 243:105-126 [ER 3093]
Geography
Country: Spain
State: Cordoba
Coordinate: 37° 22' 10" N, 4° 28' 44" W
Coordinate basis: stated in text
Time interval: Late Pleistocene
Min Ma: 0.121
Age basis: U/Th
Geography comments: "on the outskirts of the town of Lucena"
"a preliminary 230Th/234U dating of a calcite flowstone partially sealing the sedimentary sequence in zone L6 of bed VIII... has given an age of 121 + 11/-10 ka" so "the top of the Cueva del Angel sequence coincides with the beginning of MIS 5"
bed VIII overlies most of the fossiliferous unit, so the date appears to be a minimum
"a preliminary 230Th/234U dating of a calcite flowstone partially sealing the sedimentary sequence in zone L6 of bed VIII... has given an age of 121 + 11/-10 ka" so "the top of the Cueva del Angel sequence coincides with the beginning of MIS 5"
bed VIII overlies most of the fossiliferous unit, so the date appears to be a minimum
Environment
Lithology: siliciclastic (mixed)
Taphonomic context: cave,human accumulation
Archaeology: stone tools
Habitat comments: there are "numerous lithic artefacts" in Unit II, which yielded most of the fossils, and "88% of the faunal bone remains are burnt"
Unit II consists of "gravel 22%, sand 40%, silt 27% and clay 11%"
Unit II consists of "gravel 22%, sand 40%, silt 27% and clay 11%"
Methods
Life forms: carnivores,ungulates
Sampling methods: quarry
Sample size: 2959 specimens
Sampling comments: small vertebrates are discussed, but no usable counts are given
Metadata
Sample number: 3372
Contributor: John Alroy
Enterer: John Alroy
Created: 2019-08-27 12:54:03
Modified: 2023-12-02 10:52:24
Abundance distribution
13 species
2 singletons
total count 2959
geometric series index: 16.2
Fisher's α: 1.749
geometric series k: 0.5539
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.7551
Shannon's H: 1.7085
Good's u: 0.9993
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Register
| Equus ferus | 1200 | 422 kg |
| Bovini indet. | 601 | |
| both Bos primigenius and Bison priscus | ||
| Cervus elaphus | 514 | 142 kg browser-grazer |
| Dama dama | 143 | 62 kg |
| Sus scrofa | 150 | 54 kg herbivore |
| Ursus arctos | 109 | 156 kg frugivore-carnivore |
| †Ursus spelaeus | 1 | |
| †Stephanorhinus hemitoechus | 124 | |
| Lynx pardinus spelaeus | 88 | 11 kg |
| Felis silvestris | 3 | 4.5 kg carnivore |
| Canis lupus | 17 | 43 kg carnivore |
| †Palaeoloxodon antiquus | 8 | |
| Capra sp. | 1 | |