Coordinate: 29° 46' S, 28° 47' E
"Layer ALP produced four highly similar radiocarbon dates ranging from 7290 ± 80 BP to 7010 ± 70 BP, with a mean value of 7150 BP".
"While not all of the animal remains in the deposit would have been accumulated by people, the intense degree of fragmentation and burning that characterizes the Sehonghong assemblages strongly suggests that people were responsible for acquiring almost all of the faunal remains".
For Layer ALP, "188 buckets of deposit were removed in 39 units".
Papio hamadryas | 123 | 12 kg |
Vulpes chama | 1 | 2.7 kg carnivore-frugivore |
Canis mesomelas | 4 | 7.9 kg carnivore |
Suricata suricatta | 1 | 663 g invertivore-carnivore |
also 6 Herpestidae indet. | ||
Proteles cristatus | 1 | 9.1 kg insectivore |
Caracal caracal | 6 | 12 kg carnivore |
Felis lybica | 2 | |
"Felis silvestris"; also 1 Felis sp. and 7 Carnivora indet. | ||
Equus quagga | 30 | 279 kg grazer |
Procavia capensis | 225 | 2.8 kg browser |
Phacochoerus africanus | 4 | 82 kg grazer-browser |
Connochaetes gnou | 44 | grazer |
Alcelaphus buselaphus | 13 | 143 kg grazer-browser |
also 2 Alcelaphinae indet. | ||
Sylvicapra grimmia | 3 | 13 kg browser-grazer |
Antidorcas marsupialis | 4 | 40 kg browser-grazer |
Oreotragus oreotragus | 115 | browser-grazer |
Ourebia ourebi | 4 | 14 kg grazer-browser |
Raphicerus campestris | 37 | 9.7 kg browser-grazer |
Pelea capreolus | 107 | 16 kg grazer |
†Hippotragus cf. leucophaeus | 1 | |
Taurotragus oryx | 32 | 393 kg browser-grazer |
"Tragelaphus oryx" | ||
Redunca arundinum | 1 | grazer |
Redunca fulvorufula | 7 | 29 kg |
also 817 Bovidae indet. | ||
Pedetes capensis | 2 | 2.4 kg |
Hystrix africaeaustralis | 15 | 15 kg browser |
Otomys sp. | 59 | |
Cryptomys sp. | 3 | |
also 62 Rodentia indet. | ||
Pronolagus sp. | 1 | |
Lepus saxatilis | 29 | 2.0 kg |
also 3 Lepus sp. and 81 Lagomorpha indet. | ||
Struthio camelus | 1 | 111 kg grazer-browser |
Scleroptila cf. afra | 3 | |
"Scleroptila cf. africanus"; also 62 Aves indet. | ||
Testudinidae indet. | 1 | |
"Tortoise" | ||
Serpentes indet. | 16 | |
Pseudocordylus sp. | 2 | |
also 16 Lacertilia indet. | ||
Anura indet. | 22 | |
"Frog/toad" | ||
Achatina sp. | 105 | |
also 16 Gastropoda indet.: including 1 "Bulinus/Succinea" | ||
Unio caffer | 9 | |
also 33 Unionidae indet. | ||
Labeobarbus aeneus | 226 | |
Labeo capensis | 13 | |
also 472 Labeoninae indet. | ||
Austroglanis sclateri | 15 |