Haua Fteah: Pleistocene - Holocene, Libya
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Hystricidae
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Hystrix africaeaustralis
Peters 1852
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19 specimens | |||||||||
Mammalia
- Lagomorpha
- Leporidae
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Lepus capensis
Linnaeus 1758
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6 specimens | |||||||||
Oryctolagus cuniculus
(Linnaeus 1758)
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1 specimen | |||||||||
Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Rhinocerotidae
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Ceratotherium sp.
Gray 1868
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14 specimens | |||||||||
Ceratotherium simum
(Burchell 1821)
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1 specimen | |||||||||
Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Equidae
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Equus burchelli
Gray 1824
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22 specimens | |||||||||
recombined as Equus quagga burchelli | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Suidae
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Sus scrofa
Linnaeus 1758
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5 specimens | |||||||||
Mammalia
- Bovidae
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Bovidae indet.
Gray 1821
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598 specimens | |||||||||
ETE number of identifiable specimens; species: Bovidae | ||||||||||
Ammotragus lervia
(Pallas 1777)
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5758 specimens | |||||||||
original and current combination Antilope lervia | ||||||||||
Ovis aries
Linnaeus 1758
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142 specimens | |||||||||
Capra hircus
Linnaeus 1758
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500 specimens | |||||||||
Gazella thomsoni
Gunther 1884
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360 specimens | |||||||||
recombined as Eudorcas thomsoni | ||||||||||
Alcelaphus buselaphus
Pallas 1766
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277 specimens | |||||||||
Taurotragus oryx
(Pallas 1766)
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1 specimen | |||||||||
Mammalia
- Carnivora
- Felidae
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Felis libyca
Forster 1780
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3 specimens | |||||||||
Mammalia
- Carnivora
- Hyaenidae
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Crocuta crocuta
(Erxleben 1777)
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4 specimens | |||||||||
Mammalia
- Carnivora
- Mustelidae
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Mustelidae indet.
Fischer 1817
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2 specimens | |||||||||
ETE number of identifiable specimens; species: Mustelidae-small | ||||||||||
Mammalia
- Carnivora
- Ursidae
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Ursus sp.
Linnaeus 1758
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1 specimen | |||||||||
Mammalia
- Carnivora
- Canidae
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Canis lupes
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10 specimens | |||||||||
Vulpes vulpes
(Linnaeus 1758)
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15 specimens | |||||||||
Mammalia
- Proboscidea
- Elephantidae
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Loxodonta africana
(Blumenbach 1797)
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3 specimens | |||||||||
see common names |
Geography
Country: | Libya |
Coordinates: | 32.9° North, 22.2° East (view map) |
Paleocoordinates: | 32.8° North, 22.1° East |
Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
Period: | Quaternary |
*Epoch: | Middle - Late/Upper Pleistocene |
*International age/stage: | Holocene (minimum) |
Key time interval: | Pleistocene - Holocene |
Age range of interval: | 2.58800 - 0.00000 m.y. ago |
* legacy (obsolete) database fields |
Stratigraphy
Stratigraphy comments: ETE dating method: absolute, ETE age comment: max age determined from the oxygen isotope composition of marine shells; C14 date on charcoal radiometric intage_max, radiometric intage_min |
Lithology and environment
Primary lithology: | siltstone |
Lithology description: ETE rock type adj: 0, ETE lithology comments: silt and limestone layers | |
Environment: | cave |
Geology comments: ETE sed env 1: karst, ETE sed env 2: cave ETE event: ., ETE env comment: coastal cave |
Taphonomy
Modes of preservation: | body |
Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
Collection methods: | selective quarrying |
Collection size: | 364 specimens |
Reason for describing collection: | archaeological analysis |
Collection method comments: ETE Size: both; ETE reference list: 487, 485, 483, 479, 478, 477, 454, 81, ; ETE museum list: |
Metadata
Also known as: | ETE Locality 703, Haua Fteah, | ||
Database number: | 21884 | ||
Authorizer: | A. Behrensmeyer | Enterer: | A. Behrensmeyer, J. Damuth, R. Potts |
Modifier: | P. Wagner | Research group: | ETE |
Created: | 1997-05-13 00:00:00 | Last modified: | 2022-02-12 22:30:46 |
Access level: | the public | Released: | 1997-05-13 00:00:00 |
Creative Commons license: | CC BY |
Reference information
Primary reference:
5217. | ETE 929 | R. G. Klein and K. Scott. 1986. Re-Analysis of Faunal Assemblages from the Haua Fteah and other Late Quaternary Archaeological Site in Cyrenaican Libya. Journal of Archaeological Science 13:515-542 [A. Behrensmeyer/A. Behrensmeyer/P. Wagner] |