Sample name: Taguatagua 1

Sample aka: TT-1

Reference: R. Labarca, E. Gonzâlez-Guarda, A. Lizama-Catalân, N. A. Villavicencio, J. Alarcón-Muñoz, F. Suazo-Lara, P. Oyanadel-Urbina, P. Soto-Huenchuman, C. Salazar, S. Soto-Acuña, and K. E. Buldrini. 2020. Taguatagua 1: New insights into the late Pleistocene fauna, paleoenvironment, and human subsistence in a unique lacustrine context in central Chile. Quaternary Science Reviews 238(106282):1-24 [ER 3393]

Lithology: siltstone

Taphonomic context: human accumulation,lake deposit,paleosol

Archaeology: bone tools,stone tools

Habitat comments: the formation includes "lacustrine greenish, brownish and grayish massive to laminated clays and silts with some diatomaceous inclusions" and TT-1 "cultural materials and faunal remains were mainly recovered at the base of member 6 in which a discontinuous paleosoil was detected, but also at the top of the member 5"
Fig. 1 indicates that the sediments are clayey silts
"Lithic tools and debitage, as well as bone tools were discovered spatially associated with fossils... Montané (1968) also mentioned several bone tools made on horse bone, including flakers. No hearths were detected, but scattered charcoal spicules were found. In sum, all the evidence suggests a short-term camp in which mammal-processing activities were carried out... The anthropic marks observed in horse and cervid bones suggest that these taxa were culturally deposited"

Life forms: carnivores,rodents,ungulates,other small mammals,birds,snakes,frogs,fishes,snails

Sampling methods: quarry

Sample size: 988 specimens

Sampling comments: "TT-1 was archaeologically excavated during two field seasons (late 1960s and early 1990s), accounting for a total of around 189 m2 of excavated area"

Sample number: 3773

Contributor: John Alroy

Enterer: John Alroy

Created: 2021-06-08 13:44:49

Modified: 2021-06-08 03:44:49