Fuente Nueva 3 (layer 3)
Basic information
Sample name: Fuente Nueva 3 (layer 3)
Sample aka: FN3
Reference: P. Kiberd. 2006. Bundu Farm: a report on archaeological and palaeoenvironmental assemblages from a pan site in Bushmanland, Northern Cape, South Africa. South African Archaeological Bulletin 61:189-201 [ER 3856]
Geography
Country: Spain
Coordinate: 37.72° N, -2.41° W
Basis of coordinate: estimated from map
Time interval: Early Pleistocene
Ma: 1.2
Age basis: zone
Geography comments: \"7 km west of the town of Orce\" (see Fig. 1)\nage estimated at 1.2 Ma based on the occurrence of Allophaiomys aff. lavocati (not included in the data table), although paleomagnetic data and U series/ESR dates have been published elsewhere
Environment
Lithology: claystone
Taphonomic context: carnivore accumulation, human accumulation, lake deposit
Archaeology: stone tools
Habitat comments: \"near the margins\" of an ancient lake\nlithologies at the six levels are unfossiliferous whitish limestones (1), green clays (2), brown whitish clays (3), unfossiliferous whitish nodulous limestones (4), clays (fossiliferous level within 5), and dark brown clays (6)\nOldowan lithic artefacts are described elsewhere\nthere are numerous \"tooth-marked bones\" in levels 2, 3, and 5 but \"Hominins also contributed to the accumulation and modification of the faunal assemblage\", and there are cut marks and percussion marks
Methods
Life forms: carnivores, ungulates
Sampling methods: quarry
Years: 2017 - 2020
Metadata
Sample: 4231
Modified: 2023-04-19 10:09:31
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| Mammuthus meridionalis | 1 | |
| Equus sp. | 1 | |
| Bovidae indet. | 1 | |
| Metacervoceros rhenanus | 1 | |
| "Metacervocerus rhenanus": also one indeterminate cervid | ||
| Praemegaceros cf. verticornis | 1 | |
| Carnivora indet. | 1 | |
| "size 2" | ||