Kalemba Rock-Shelter: Pleistocene - Holocene, Zambia
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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unclassified
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Eleusine indica
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Angiospermae
- Poales
- Poaceae
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Zea mays
Linnaeus 1753
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Angiospermae
- Fabales
- Fabaceae
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Canavalia virosa
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Reptilia
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Reptilia indet.
Laurenti 1768
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4 individuals | |||||||||
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Reptilia
- Varanidae
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Varanus sp.
Merrem 1820
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3 individuals | |||||||||
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Mammalia
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Mammalia indet.
Linnaeus 1758
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5 individuals | |||||||||
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Mammalia
- Tubulidentata
- Orycteropodidae
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Orycteropus sp.
Geoffroy 1791
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3 individuals | |||||||||
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Mammalia
- Hyracoidea
- Procaviidae
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Dendrohyrax sp.
Gray 1868
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14 individuals | |||||||||
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Mammalia
- Proboscidea
- Elephantidae
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Loxodonta sp.
Cuvier 1825
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1 individual | |||||||||
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Mammalia
- Primates
- Cercopithecidae
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Papio sp.
Erxleben 1777
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3 individuals | |||||||||
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Mammalia
- Primates
- Hominidae
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Homo sapiens
Linnaeus 1758
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Mammalia
- Primates
- Galagidae
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Otolemur crassicaudatus
(Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire 1812)
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1 individual | |||||||||
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Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Hystricidae
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Hystricidae indet.
Fischer de Waldheim 1817
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3 individuals | |||||||||
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Hystrix sp.
Linnaeus 1758
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5 individuals | |||||||||
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Mammalia
- Lagomorpha
- Leporidae
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Leporidae indet.
Fischer de Waldheim 1817
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2 individuals | |||||||||
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Mammalia
- Carnivora
- Viverridae
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Genetta sp.
Cuvier 1816
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2 individuals | |||||||||
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Mammalia
- Bovidae
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Bovidae indet.
Gray 1821
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62 individuals | |||||||||
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Connochaetes sp.
(Lichtenstein 1812)
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14 individuals | |||||||||
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Gazella thomsoni
Gunther 1884
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1 individual | |||||||||
| recombined as Eudorcas thomsoni | ||||||||||
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Ourebia ourebi
(Zimmerman 1783)
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3 individuals | |||||||||
| original and current combination Antilope ourebi | ||||||||||
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Kobus ellipsiprymnus
(Ogilby 1833)
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16 individuals | |||||||||
| original and current combination Antilope ellipsiprymnus | ||||||||||
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Redunca sp.
Smith 1827
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4 individuals | |||||||||
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Cephalophus sp.
Smith 1827
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Sylvicapra sp.
Ogilby 1837
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Hippotragus niger
Harris 1838
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2 individuals | |||||||||
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Tragelaphus strepsiceros
(Pallas 1766)
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2 individuals | |||||||||
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Tragelaphus scriptus
(Pallas 1766)
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1 individual | |||||||||
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Taurotragus oryx
(Pallas 1766)
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9 individuals | |||||||||
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Mammalia
- Suidae
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Suidae indet.
Gray 1821
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4 individuals | |||||||||
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Phacochoerus sp.
Cuvier 1826
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6 individuals | |||||||||
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Potamochoerus sp.
Gray 1854
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19 individuals | |||||||||
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Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Equidae
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Equidae indet.
Gray 1821
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23 individuals | |||||||||
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Equus burchelli
Gray 1824
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52 individuals | |||||||||
| recombined as Equus quagga burchelli | ||||||||||
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Geography
| Country: | Zambia |
| Coordinates: | 14.1° South, 32.5° East (view map) |
| Paleocoordinates: | 14.2° South, 32.4° East |
| Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
| Period: | Quaternary |
| 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 6 | *Epoch: | Middle - Late/Upper Pleistocene |
| *International age/stage: | Holocene (minimum) |
| Key time interval: | Pleistocene - Holocene |
| Age range of interval: | 2.58000 - 0.00000 m.y. ago |
| * legacy (obsolete) database fields | |
Stratigraphy
| Stratigraphy comments: ETE dating method: absolute, ETE age comment: >35000 BC on bone apatite; 1835 +- 70 AD on beans from pot radiometric intage_max, radiometric intage_min |
Lithology and environment
| Lithology description: ETE rock type adj: 0, ETE lithology comments: granite rock-shelter; layers of soil and stone (granite); deep colluvial deposits near site | |
| Environment: | cave |
| Geology comments: ETE sed env 1: ., ETE sed env 2: cave ETE event: ., ETE env comment: rock-shelter; near ancient river | |
Taphonomy
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | bulk,selective quarrying |
| Collection size: | 0 specimens |
| Collection method comments: ETE Size: both; ETE reference list: 483, 482, 481, 480, 479, 478, 477, ; ETE museum list: | |
Metadata
| Also known as: | ETE Locality 673, Kalemba Rock-Shelter, | ||
| Database number: | 21854 | ||
| Authorizer: | A. Behrensmeyer | Enterer: | A. Behrensmeyer, J. Damuth |
| Modifier: | M. Kosnik | ||
| Created: | 1997-05-13 00:00:00 | Last modified: | 2017-05-23 16:34:15 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 1997-05-13 00:00:00 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY | ||
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 5210. | ETE 922 | D. W. Phillipson. 1976. The Prehistory of Eastern Zambia. Memoir of the British Institute in Eastern Africa 6 [A. Behrensmeyer/A. Behrensmeyer/M. Kosnik] |