Liang Bua Holocene deposits (Holocene of Indonesia)

Where: East Nusa Tenggara, Indonesia (8.5° S, 120.4° E: paleocoordinates 8.5° S, 120.4° E)

• coordinate stated in text

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Holocene (0.0 - 0.0 Ma)

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: cave; siliciclastic sediments

• none given, but sediments in Sector VII are silt, clay, and rockfall

Size class: macrofossils

Collection methods: quarrying,

Primary reference: M. J. Morwood, R. P. Soejono, R. G. Roberts, T. Sutikna, C. S. M. Turney, K. E. Westaway, W. J. Rink, J.-x. Zhao, G. D. Bergh, Rokus Awe Due, D. R. Hobbs, M. W. Moore, M. I. Bird and L. K. Fifield. 2004. Archaeology and age of a new hominin from Flores in eastern Indonesia. Nature 431:1087-1091 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: archaeological analysis

PaleoDB collection 68059: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 30.12.2006

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

• Pleistocene fauna from unspecified locations throughout the cave includes "fish, frog, snake, tortoise, varanids, birds, rodents and bats... Komodo dragon and another, even larger varanid, as well an endemic, dwarfed species of Stegodon"
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Mammalia
 Artiodactyla - Cervidae
Cervidae indet.
Cervidae indet. Gray 1821 deer
"deer"
 Artiodactyla - Suidae
Suidae indet.
Suidae indet. Gray 1821 pig
"pig"
 Rodentia - Hystricidae
Hystricidae indet.
Hystricidae indet. Fischer de Waldheim 1817 porcupine
"porcupine"
 Primates - Cercopithecidae
Macaca sp.
Macaca sp. Lacépède 1799 macaque
"macaque monkey"
 Primates - Hominidae
Homo sapiens
Homo sapiens Linnaeus 1758 human
3.7 m level in Sector XI