Sample name: Coudoulous I (Faunal Unit VII)

Reference: P. Fernandez, M. Jeannet, J. Jaubert, and J.-P. Brugal. 2021. Paleoecological first results on the Middle Pleistocene sequence of Coudoulous I (Quercy, Lot, France). Alpine and Mediterranean Quaternary 34(1):89-107 [ER 3857]

Lithology: breccia

Taphonomic context: cave,human accumulation,pitfall trap

Archaeology: stone tools

Habitat comments: a pitfall trap with fossils from "clays, sands, angular limestone rocks"
there is a "very rich archaeological level" immediately above the fossiliferous sequence that dates to the "Early Middle Paleolithic" and there are "scarce and dispersed artefacts of the same age" in the fossiliferous levels
the site "was used for marginal scavenging by Lower Paleolithic hominid groups and as a kill-butchery site during the EMP", so it is at least partially a human accumulation
from stratigraphic unit 8d, which is a breccia based on Fig. 2

Life forms: bats,carnivores,rodents,ungulates,other small mammals,lizards,snakes,frogs

Sampling methods: quarry,screenwash

Sample size: 118 specimens

Years: 1994 - 2003

Sampling comments: there was a "rescue excavation" in 1978 - 1980, but the main excavation was between 1994 and 2003
the high abundance of micromammals is taken to mean that screening was used

Sample number: 4227

Contributor: John Alroy

Enterer: John Alroy

Created: 2023-04-14 21:11:20

Modified: 2023-04-14 11:11:20