Ain Boucherit (Upper)
Basic information
Sample name: Ain Boucherit (Upper)
Sample aka: AB-Up
Reference: I. Câceres, R. Chelli Cheheb, J. van der Made, Z. Harichane, and K. Boulaghraief. 2023. Assessing the subsistence strategies of the earliest North African inhabitants: evidence from the Early Pleistocene site of Ain Boucherit (Algeria). Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences 15(87):1-28 [ER 3933]
Geography
Country: Algeria
Coordinate: 36.204102° N, 5.627° E
Coordinate basis: stated in text
Formation: Ain Boucherit
Time interval: Early Pleistocene
Section: Ain Boucherit
Unit number: 2
Unit order: below to above
Ma: 1.92
Age basis: ESR
Geography comments: dating was based on "a combination" of magnetostratigraphy, ESR, and biochronology, but primarily the ESR date of 1.92 +- 0.18 Ma for a sample "less than 1 m below" the fossils
Environment
Lithology: siltstone
Taphonomic context: carnivore accumulation,human accumulation,paleosol
Archaeology: stone tools
Habitat comments: the fossils are from "primarily silty sediments" and the environment is interpreted as an "open-air site" in a "suspension-loaded" floodplain
there are cutmarks and percussion marks plus toothmarks and other carnivore damage on the bones, "butchery" is inferred, and carnivore activity was considerable at this stratigraphic level
there are 234 stone tools
there are cutmarks and percussion marks plus toothmarks and other carnivore damage on the bones, "butchery" is inferred, and carnivore activity was considerable at this stratigraphic level
there are 234 stone tools
Methods
Life forms: carnivores,ungulates
Sampling methods: quarry
Sample size: 103 specimens
Sampling comments: there were "limited trench excavations"
Metadata
Sample number: 4337
Contributor: John Alroy
Enterer: John Alroy
Created: 2023-08-11 12:21:43
Modified: 2023-11-16 04:09:27
Abundance distribution
16 species
5 singletons
total count 103
geometric series index: 31.5
Fisher's α: 5.304
geometric series k: 0.8008
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.8375
Shannon's H: 2.1563
Good's u: 0.9522
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Register
| Elephantidae indet. | 4 | |
| Elephas recki, Mammuthus meridionalis, and Elephas moghrebiensis are listed at once | ||
| Equus numidicus | 14 | |
| Equus tabeti | 5 | |
| "Equus tibeti" | ||
| Hippopotamus sp. | 2 | |
| Kolpochoerus cf. limnetes | 2 | |
| "Kolpochoerus cf. heseloni": see Yang et al. (2022) | ||
| Camelus thomasi | 1 | |
| Giraffa pomeli | 1 | |
| Tragelaphus gaudryi | 1 | |
| "Taurotragus gaudryi": see Blondel et al. (2018) | ||
| Pelorovis sp. | 1 | |
| questionably referred | ||
| Gazella cf. setifensis | 23 | |
| Parantidorcas latifrons | 28 | |
| plus 72 Antilopinae | ||
| Parmularius ? altidens | 10 | |
| Connochaetes tournoueri | 2 | |
| plus 4 Alcelaphinae | ||
| Ursus sp. | 1 | |
| questionably referred | ||
| Canis sp. | 6 | |
| "Canis primaevus": certainly wrong because this is an old synonym of Canis dirus | ||
| Felidae indet. | 2 | |
| large | ||