Fuente Nueva 3 (layer 2)
Basic information
Sample name: Fuente Nueva 3 (layer 2)
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
Coordinate basis: 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)
age 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
age 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
lithologies 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)
Oldowan lithic artefacts are described elsewhere
there 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
lithologies 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)
Oldowan lithic artefacts are described elsewhere
there 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: ungulates
Sampling methods: quarry
Sample size: 6 specimens
Years: 2017 - 2020
Metadata
Sample number: 4230
Contributor: John Alroy
Enterer: John Alroy
Created: 2023-04-19 20:08:33
Modified: 2023-04-19 10:08:33
Abundance distribution
3 species
1 singleton
total count 6
extrapolated richness: 7.7
Fisher's α: 2.388
geometric series k: 0.5774
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.5333
Shannon's H: 1.0114
Good's u: 0.8810
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Current reference:
Sainz-Borgo 2016 (ER 2762)