Byzovaya
Basic information
Sample name: Byzovaya
Reference: H. P. Heggen, J. I. Svendsen, J. Mangerud, and O. S. Lohne. 2012. A new palaeoenvironmental model for the evolution of the Byzovaya Palaeolithic site, northern Russia. Boreas 41:527-545 [ER 3850]
Geography
Country: Russia
Coordinate: 65° 1' 30" N, 57° 26' 6" E
Coordinate basis: stated in text
Time interval: Late Pleistocene
Ma: 0.02845
Age basis: radiocarbon (uncalibrated)
Geography comments: "on the right bank of the Pechora River... some 2.5 km east of Byzovaya village"
there are 34 14C dates on bone (33 from formation F) and 15 OSL dates on "aeolian sediments covering the find-bearing strata" and the uncalibrated 14C dates average 28,450 +/- 820 14C a BP
the fossils are entirely from the 2.5 m-thick formation F at the bottom of the section
there are 34 14C dates on bone (33 from formation F) and 15 OSL dates on "aeolian sediments covering the find-bearing strata" and the uncalibrated 14C dates average 28,450 +/- 820 14C a BP
the fossils are entirely from the 2.5 m-thick formation F at the bottom of the section
Environment
Lithology: conglomerate
Taphonomic context: fluvial deposit
Archaeology: stone tools
Habitat comments: "poorly sorted, sandy gravel with numerous pebbles and boulders of various sizes... the matrix consists of fine to medium sand" and the strata "are interpreted as a series of debris-flow deposits originating from the adjacent slopes"
"Many of the bones have marks from butchering and/or other purposes" and there are "flakes, cores and as many as 80 defined typological tools" but there is no indication in the text that this is a human accumulation
"Many of the bones have marks from butchering and/or other purposes" and there are "flakes, cores and as many as 80 defined typological tools" but there is no indication in the text that this is a human accumulation
Methods
Life forms: carnivores,ungulates
Sampling methods: quarry
Sample size: 2691 specimens
Years: 1963 - 1968, 1986, 1997, 2000
Sampling comments: "Many bones from Byzovaya were lost in a 1965 boat accident, and are therefore not identified"
Metadata
Sample number: 4215
Contributor: John Alroy
Enterer: John Alroy
Created: 2023-04-09 21:21:31
Modified: 2023-04-09 11:21:31
Abundance distribution
8 species
0 singletons
total count 2691
geometric series index: 10.4
Fisher's α: 1.015
geometric series k: 0.3585
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.0458
Shannon's H: 0.1456
Good's u: 1.0000
Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts.
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| Mammuthus primigenius | 2628 | |
| Coelodonta antiquitatis | 7 | |
| Equus ferus | 15 | 422 kg |
| "Equus caballus" (apparently not domesticated) | ||
| Rangifer tarandus | 30 | 69 kg browser |
| Ovibos moschatus | 2 | 214 kg |
| Canis lupus | 2 | 43 kg carnivore |
| Vulpes lagopus | 3 | 3.3 kg |
| "Alopex lagopus" | ||
| Ursus arctos | 4 | 156 kg frugivore-carnivore |