Payre (ensemble F)
Basic information
Sample name: Payre (ensemble F)
Reference: C. Daujeard, E. J. Daschek, M. Patou-Mathis, and M. H. Moncel. 2018. Les néandertaliens de Payre (Ardèche, France) ont-ils chassé le rhinocéros?. Quaternaire 29(3):217-231 [ER 3976]
Geography
Country: France
Coordinate: 44° 53' N, 4° 51' E
Coordinate basis: based on nearby landmark
Time interval: Middle Pleistocene
Unit number: 2
Unit order: below to above
Max Ma: 0.243
Min Ma: 0.191
Age basis: zone
Geography comments: elevation 60 m (Moncel and Condemi 2007, Anthropologie)
shown on map by Moncel and Condemi (2007) as immediately to the southwest of Soyons (basis of coordinate), which houses a museum for the archaeological site
MIS 7 based on "TL, ESR & U/Th" (dates not given) according to Moncel and Condemi (2007)
shown on map by Moncel and Condemi (2007) as immediately to the southwest of Soyons (basis of coordinate), which houses a museum for the archaeological site
MIS 7 based on "TL, ESR & U/Th" (dates not given) according to Moncel and Condemi (2007)
Environment
Lithology: breccia
Taphonomic context: cave,human accumulation
Archaeology: stone tools
Habitat comments: "a grey sediment and beds of rubble and clay with the same features [as in level G], formed secondarily in the cave. It displays human occupations alternating with numerous animal ones, especially Ursus spelaeus"
"the main accumulator agent" throughout the section was humans and there are "more or less deep grooves, flake scars and notches" on "numerous isolated teeth" and other bones from this level that are interpreted as "Confidently of anthropic origin"
lithic assemblages are present throughout the section, so presumably are found here
"the main accumulator agent" throughout the section was humans and there are "more or less deep grooves, flake scars and notches" on "numerous isolated teeth" and other bones from this level that are interpreted as "Confidently of anthropic origin"
lithic assemblages are present throughout the section, so presumably are found here
Methods
Life forms: carnivores,primates,ungulates
Sampling methods: quarry
Sample size: 2582 specimens
Years: 1990 - 2002
Metadata
Sample number: 4388
Contributor: John Alroy
Enterer: John Alroy
Created: 2023-12-03 21:02:14
Modified: 2023-12-03 10:02:14
Abundance distribution
26 species
3 singletons
total count 2582
geometric series index: 34.6
Fisher's α: 4.021
geometric series k: 0.7590
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.7336
Shannon's H: 1.7070
Good's u: 0.9988
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Register
Palaeoloxodon antiquus | 33 | |
Stephanorhinus hemitoechus | 7 | |
Stephanorhinus kirchbergensis | 14 | |
plus 208 Stephanorhinus sp. | ||
Equus sp. | 311 | |
Bos primigenius | 6 | |
Bison sp. | 60 | |
plus 240 Bos or Bison | ||
Hemitragus bonali | 117 | |
Rupicapra rupicapra | 7 | 27 kg browser-grazer |
Cervus elaphus | 821 | 104 kg |
Megaloceros giganteus | 4 | |
Dama dama | 22 | 62 kg |
Capreolus capreolus | 106 | 22 kg browser |
Sus scrofa | 12 | 54 kg herbivore |
Ursus spelaeus | 986 | |
Ursus arctos | 1 | 156 kg frugivore-carnivore |
Cuon sp. | 1 | |
Canis lupus | 37 | 43 kg carnivore |
Vulpes vulpes | 7 | 5.3 kg carnivore-insectivore |
Panthera (Leo) spelaea | 4 | |
Panthera pardus | 2 | 33 kg carnivore |
Lynx pardinus spelaea | 1 | 11 kg |
"Lynx spelaea" | ||
Felis silvestris | 3 | 4.5 kg carnivore |
Crocuta spelaea | 12 | |
Meles meles | 3 | 11 kg invertivore-herbivore |
Martes martes | 2 | 1.5 kg carnivore-frugivore |
Homo neanderthalensis | 3 | |
see Moncel and Condemi (2007) |