The Ecological Register: Katanda 2

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Katanda 2

Basic information

Sample name: Katanda 2

Sample aka: Kt2

Reference: A. S. Brooks, D. M. Helgren, J. S. Cramer, A. Franklin, W. Hornyak, J. M. Keating, R. G. Klein, W. J. Rink, H. Schwarcz, J. N. L. Smith, K. Stewart, N. E. Todd, J. Verniers, and J. E. Yellen. 1995. Dating and context of three Middle Stone Age sites with bone points in the Upper Semliki Valley, Zaire. Science 268:548-553 [ER 3846]

Geography

Country: Democratic Republic of the Congo

Coordinate: -0.10° S, 29.60° E

Coordinate basis: estimated from map

Time interval: Middle Pleistocene

Max Ma: 0.174

Min Ma: 0.082

Age basis: other

Geography comments: "along the east bank of the Semliki River"
coordinate estimated from map in Fig. 1
fossils are from "at or near the base of the Katanda beds"
the same level at the laterally equivalent Kt9 was dated at 82 +/- 8 ka (TL on quartz), 155 +/- 38 ka (ESR on teeth), and 140 +/- 4 and 174 +/- 1 ka (U-series on teeth)

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Environment

Lithology: sandstone

Taphonomic context: fluvial deposit

Archaeology: bone tools

Habitat comments: "well-sorted sandy alluvial facies with crossbedding" that "primarily represent lateral fills along a floodplain margin and the valleys of ephemeral tributary streams"
"barbed and unbarbed bone points" were recovered but there is no mention of stone artefacts

Methods

Life forms: rodents,ungulates

Sampling methods: quarry

Sample size: 14 specimens

Years: 1986 - 1990

Sampling comments: from "a major excavation"
MNI counts of fishes are also given

Metadata

Sample number: 4209

Contributor: John Alroy

Enterer: John Alroy

Created: 2023-04-07 20:37:07

Modified: 2023-04-07 10:37:07

Abundance distribution

4 species

3 singletons

total count 14

extrapolated richness: 17.6

Fisher's α: 1.871

geometric series k: 0.4496

Hurlbert's PIE: 0.3187

Shannon's H: 0.7550

Good's u: 0.7857

Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts.

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Register

Hystrix sp.	1
Hippopotamus amphibius	11	1107 kg grazer
Potamochoerus porcus	1	66 kg
plus one indeterminate suid
Syncerus caffer	1	548 kg grazer-browser
plus four indeterminate bovids