Haua Fteah: Pleistocene - Holocene, Libya

List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
Mammalia - Rodentia - Hystricidae
Hystrix africaeaustralis Peters 1852
19 specimens
Mammalia - Lagomorpha - Leporidae
Lepus capensis Linnaeus 1758
6 specimens
Oryctolagus cuniculus (Linnaeus 1758)
1 specimen
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Rhinocerotidae
Ceratotherium sp. Gray 1868
14 specimens
Ceratotherium simum (Burchell 1821)
1 specimen
Mammalia - Perissodactyla - Equidae
Equus burchelli Gray 1824
22 specimens
recombined as Equus quagga burchelli
Mammalia - Suidae
Sus scrofa Linnaeus 1758
5 specimens
Mammalia - Bovidae
Bovidae indet. Gray 1821
598 specimens
ETE number of identifiable specimens; species: Bovidae
Ammotragus lervia (Pallas 1777)
5758 specimens
original and current combination Antilope lervia
Ovis aries Linnaeus 1758
142 specimens
Capra hircus Linnaeus 1758
500 specimens
Gazella thomsoni Gunther 1884
360 specimens
recombined as Eudorcas thomsoni
Alcelaphus buselaphus Pallas 1766
277 specimens
Taurotragus oryx (Pallas 1766)
1 specimen
Mammalia - Carnivora - Felidae
Felis libyca Forster 1780
3 specimens
Mammalia - Carnivora - Hyaenidae
Crocuta crocuta (Erxleben 1777)
4 specimens
Mammalia - Carnivora - Mustelidae
Mustelidae indet. Fischer 1817
2 specimens
ETE number of identifiable specimens; species: Mustelidae-small
Mammalia - Carnivora - Ursidae
Ursus sp. Linnaeus 1758
1 specimen
Mammalia - Carnivora - Canidae
Canis lupes
10 specimens
Vulpes vulpes (Linnaeus 1758)
15 specimens
Mammalia - Proboscidea - Elephantidae
Loxodonta africana (Blumenbach 1797)
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 929R. 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]