Payre (ensemble G)
Basic information
Sample name: Payre (ensemble G)

Reference: C. Daujeard, E. J. Daschek, M. Patou-Mathis, and M. H. Moncel. 2018. Les néandertaliens de Payre (Ardèche, France) ont-ils chassé le rhinocéros?. Quaternaire 29(3):217-231 [ER 3976]
Geography
Country: France


Coordinate: 44° 53' N, 4° 51' E
Coordinate basis: based on nearby landmark

Time interval: Middle Pleistocene

Unit number: 1

Unit order: below to above

Max Ma: 0.243

Min Ma: 0.191

Age basis: zone

Geography comments: elevation 60 m (Moncel and Condemi 2007, Anthropologie)
shown on map by Moncel and Condemi (2007) as immediately to the southwest of Soyons (basis of coordinate), which houses a museum for the archaeological site
MIS 7 based on "TL, ESR & U/Th" (dates not given) according to Moncel and Condemi (2007)

Environment
Lithology: breccia

Taphonomic context: cave,human accumulation

Archaeology: stone tools

Habitat comments: "orange clay and numerous stones and slabs, turning into breccia. Most of the human remains were found in these layers, which corresponds to two main phases of human occupation"
"the main accumulator agent" throughout the section was humans and there are "more or less deep grooves, flake scars and notches" on "numerous isolated teeth" and other bones from this level that are interpreted as "Confidently of anthropic origin"
lithic assemblages are present throughout the section, so presumably are found here

Methods
Life forms: carnivores,primates,ungulates

Sampling methods: quarry

Sample size: 598 specimens

Years: 1990 - 2002

Metadata
Sample number: 4387

Contributor: John Alroy

Enterer: John Alroy

Created: 2023-12-03 21:00:12

Modified: 2023-12-03 10:07:13

Abundance distribution
22 species
3 singletons
total count 598
extrapolated richness: 30.1
Fisher's α: 4.491
geometric series k: 0.7711
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.7867
Shannon's H: 2.0534
Good's u: 0.9950
Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts.
Register
Palaeoloxodon antiquus3
Stephanorhinus hemitoechus4
Stephanorhinus kirchbergensis12
plus 121 Stephanorhinus sp.
Equus sp.118
Bos primigenius3
Bison sp.23
plus 98 Bos or Bison
Hemitragus bonali36
Rupicapra rupicapra227 kg browser-grazer
Cervus elaphus235104 kg
Megaloceros giganteus3
Dama dama662 kg
Capreolus capreolus1822 kg browser
Sus scrofa454 kg herbivore
Ursus spelaeus51
Ursus arctos7156 kg frugivore-carnivore
plus 8 Ursus sp.
Canis lupus1543 kg carnivore
Vulpes vulpes405.3 kg carnivore-insectivore
Panthera pardus133 kg carnivore
Crocuta spelaea5
Meles meles111 kg invertivore-herbivore
Mustelidae indet.1
Homo neanderthalensis10
see Moncel and Condemi (2007)