Gornovo
Basic information
Sample name: Gornovo
Reference: G. Danukalova, R. Kurmanov, A. Yakovlev, E. Osipova, E. Zinovyev, and K. Arslanov. 2016. Palaeoenvironment of the Middle and Upper Neopleistocene at the Gornovo Upper Palaeolithic site (Southern Ural foreland, Russia). Quaternary International 420:24-46 [ER 3106]
Geography
Country: Russia
Coordinate: 54° 54' 28" N, 55° 52' 48" E
Coordinate basis: stated in text
Time interval: Late Pleistocene
Max Ma: 0.0297
Min Ma: 0.02695
Age basis: radiocarbon (uncalibrated)
Geography comments: "on the left bank of the Belaya River, 1 km upstream from the village of Gornovo" at an elevation between 160 and 200 m
list combines "Gornovo II and IIa, layers 2 and 3"
there are four uncalibrated dates on layer 2 ranging from 26,950 +/- 560 to 29,700 +/- 1250 BP, plus a date on Bison tooth of > 33,670 BP for the underlying layer 3
list combines "Gornovo II and IIa, layers 2 and 3"
there are four uncalibrated dates on layer 2 ranging from 26,950 +/- 560 to 29,700 +/- 1250 BP, plus a date on Bison tooth of > 33,670 BP for the underlying layer 3
Environment
Lithology: siltstone
Taphonomic context: fluvial deposit
Archaeology: stone tools
Habitat comments: "floodplain facies of the alluvial deposits which consist of 3) Dark bluish-grey lacustrine silty loam with molluscs shells and mammals remains (thickness 2 m); 2)Bluish-grey thin-bedded silty loam with stumps and roots of Picea sp... Greyish-brown clayey silt occur in erosional pockets between layers 2 and 3 (Gornovo IIa). Eight stone Upper Palaeolithic implements and bone remains of large and the small mammals were collected from these sediments"
Methods
Life forms: rodents,ungulates,other small mammals
Sampling methods: quarry,screenwash
Sample size: 375 specimens
Years: 1975, 1983
Sampling comments: excavated samples were washed "using sieves with a mesh size of 0.5-1.0 mm"
no carnivores are present
no carnivores are present
Metadata
Sample number: 3392
Contributor: John Alroy
Enterer: John Alroy
Created: 2019-08-29 12:00:21
Modified: 2023-02-24 12:08:24
Abundance distribution
19 species
6 singletons
total count 375
geometric series index: 35.8
Fisher's α: 4.225
geometric series k: 0.7559
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.7649
Shannon's H: 1.8593
Good's u: 0.9841
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Register
| Camelus sp. | 1 | |
| Megaloceros giganteus | 2 | |
| Alces alces | 1 | 421 kg herbivore |
| Bos primigenius | 21 | |
| Bison priscus | 73 | |
| subspecies gigas and mediator were identified in 1975 | ||
| Ovis ammon | 1 | 76 kg browser-grazer |
| Equus cf. hemionus | 1 | grazer |
| Equus ferus | 16 | 422 kg |
| "Equus caballus fossilis": not domesticated | ||
| Ochotona pusilla | 13 | |
| Spermophilus sp. | 1 | |
| Ellobius talpinus | 2 | |
| Allocricetulus eversmanni | 1 | |
| Myodes rufocanus | 2 | |
| "Clethrionomys rufocanus" | ||
| Myodes rutilus | 2 | 19.5 g |
| "Clethrionomys rutilus"; also 14 Myodes sp. "Clethrionomys ex gr. rutilus-glareolus" | ||
| Lagurus lagurus | 154 | |
| Eolagurus luteus | 2 | |
| Arvicola amphibius | 7 | |
| "Arvicola terrestris" | ||
| Stenocranius gregalis | 28 | |
| "Microtus gregalis" | ||
| Alexandromys oeconomus | 47 | 36.5 g |
| "Microtus oeconomus" | ||