Blombos Cave: Late/Upper Pleistocene, South Africa
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Bathyergidae
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Bathyergus suillus
(Schreber 1787)
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Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Hystricidae
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Hystrix africaeaustralis
Peters 1852
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Mammalia
- Lagomorpha
- Leporidae
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Lepus saxatilis
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Lepus capensis
Linnaeus 1758
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Mammalia
- Primates
- Cercopithecidae
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Papio urinus
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Mammalia
- Primates
- Hominidae
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Homo sapiens
Linnaeus 1758
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Mammalia
- Erinaceidae
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Erinaceus frontalis
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Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Rhinocerotidae
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Rhinocerotidae indet.
Gray 1821
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Diceros bicornis
(Linnaeus 1758)
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Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Equidae
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Equus capensis
Broom 1909
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Mammalia
- Hippopotamidae
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Hippopotamus amphibius
Linnaeus 1758
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Mammalia
- Cetacea
- Delphinidae
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Delphinidae indet.
Gray 1821
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Mammalia
- Bovidae
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Bovidae indet.
Gray 1821
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Ovis aries
Linnaeus 1758
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Raphicerus sp.
Smith 1827
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Raphicerus campestris
(Thunberg 1811)
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original and current combination Antilope campestris | |||||||
Raphicerus melanotis
Thunberg 1811
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Oreotragus oreotragus
(Zimmermann 1783)
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Antidorcas sp.
Sundevall 1847
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Hippotragus leucophaeus
(Pallas 1766)
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Connochaetes gnou
(Zimmermann 1780)
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Alcelaphus buselaphus
Pallas 1766
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Pelea capreolus
(Forster 1790)
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original and current combination Antilopa capreolus | |||||||
Sylvicapra grimmia
(Linnaeus 1758)
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Redunca arundinum
(Boddaert 1785)
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original and current combination Antilope arundinum | |||||||
Taurotragus oryx
(Pallas 1766)
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Syncerus caffer
(Sparman 1779)
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original and current combination Bos caffer | |||||||
? Bos taurus
Linnaeus 1758
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Mammalia
- Carnivora
- Felidae
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Felis libyca
Forster 1780
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Mammalia
- Carnivora
- Hyaenidae
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Hyaenidae indet.
Gray 1821
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Mammalia
- Carnivora
- Herpestidae
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Herpestes pulverulentus
Wagner 1839
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recombined as Galerella pulverulenta | |||||||
Mammalia
- Carnivora
- Viverridae
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Genetta sp.
Cuvier 1816
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Mammalia
- Carnivora
- Mustelidae
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Ictonyx striatus
(Perry 1810)
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Aonyx capensis
(Schinz 1821)
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Mellivora capensis
(Schreber 1776)
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Mammalia
- Carnivora
- Otariidae
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Arctocephalus pusillus
(Schreber 1778)
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Mammalia
- Carnivora
- Canidae
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Canis sp.
Linnaeus 1758
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Canis mesomelas
Schreber 1775
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recombined as Lupulella mesomelas | |||||||
Mammalia
- Hyracoidea
- Procaviidae
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Procavia capensis
(Pallas 1766)
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Mammalia
- Proboscidea
- Elephantidae
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Loxodonta africana
(Blumenbach 1797)
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see common names |
Geography
Country: | South Africa |
Coordinates: | 34.4° South, 21.2° East (view map) |
Paleocoordinates: | 34.4° South, 21.2° East |
Basis of coordinate: | stated in text |
Time
Period: | Quaternary | Epoch: | Pleistocene |
10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 6 | ||
Key time interval: | Late/Upper Pleistocene | ||
Age range of interval: | 0.12600 - 0.01170 m.y. ago |
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphy comments: 100 ka - 70 ka |
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: | not reported |
Environment: | cave |
Glacial or sequence phase: | interglacial |
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation: | body,anthropogenic |
Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
Reason for describing collection: | archaeological analysis |
Metadata
Database number: | 115167 | ||
Authorizer: | M. Uhen | Enterer: | M. Uhen |
Modifier: | M. Uhen | Research group: | vertebrate |
Created: | 2011-08-30 05:24:52 | Last modified: | 2017-05-23 16:34:15 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 2011-08-30 05:24:52 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
37301. | C. S. Henshilwood, J. C. Sealy, R. Yates, K. Cruz-Uribe, P. Goldberg, F. E. Grine, R. G. Klein, C. Poggenpoel, K. Niekerk and I. Watts. 2001. Blombos Cave, Southern Cape, South Africa: Preliminary Report on the 1992–1999 Excavations of the Middle Stone Age Levels. Journal of Archaeological Science 28:421-448 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen] |
Secondary references:
37211 | G. A. Avery and R. G. Klein. 2011. Review of fossil phocid and otariid seals from the southern and western coasts of South Africa. Transactions of the Royal Society of South Africa 66(1):14-24 [M. Uhen/M. Uhen] |