Also known as ETE Locality 744, Mlawula,
Where: Swaziland (26.4° S, 31.4° E: paleocoordinates 26.5° S, 31.3° E)
When: Pleistocene to Pleistocene (2.6 - 0.0 Ma)
• ETE dating method: absolute, ETE age comment: early Holocene, age based on stone tools and artifacts radiometric intage_max, radiometric intage_min
Environment/lithology: cave
Collection methods: quarrying
• ETE Size: macro; ETE reference list: 483, 482, 481, 479, 478, 477, ; ETE museum list:
Primary reference: R. G. Klein. 1986. Later Stone Age Faunal Samples from Heuningneskrans Shelter (Transvaal) and Leopard's Hill Cave (Zambia). The South African Archaeological Bulletin 39:109-116 [A. Behrensmeyer/A. Behrensmeyer/M. Kosnik]more details
PaleoDB collection 21925: authorized by Anna Behrensmeyer, entered by Anna Behrensmeyer on 13.05.1997, edited by John Damuth, Richard Potts and Hannah O'Regan
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Mammalia | |
Lepus saxatilis hare | |
"Equus burchelli" = Equus quagga burchelli
"Equus burchelli" = Equus quagga burchelli Gray 1824 Burchell's zebra | |
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Raphicerus campestris, Raphicerus sharpei, Oreotragus oreotragus, Hippotragus niger, Hippotragus equinus, Damaliscus lunatus, Alcelaphus sp., Cephalophus monticola, Redunca fulvorufula, Aepyceros melampus, Tragelaphus strepsiceros
Raphicerus campestris Thunberg 1811 steenbok
Raphicerus sharpei Thomas 1897 Sharpe's grysbok
Oreotragus oreotragus Zimmermann 1783 klipspringer
Hippotragus niger Harris 1838 sable antelope
Hippotragus equinus Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire 1803 roan antelope
Damaliscus lunatus Burchell 1823 common tsessebe
Alcelaphus sp. Blainville 1816 hartebeest
Cephalophus monticola Thunberg 1789 blue duiker
Redunca fulvorufula Afzelius 1815 mountain reedbuck
Aepyceros melampus Lichtenstein 1812 impala
Tragelaphus strepsiceros Pallas 1766 greater kudu | |
Panthera pardus Linnaeus 1758 leopard
"Felis caracal" = Caracal caracal Schreber 1776 caracal
"Felis serval" = Caracal serval Schreber 1776 serval | |
Parahyaena brunnea Thunberg 1820 brown hyaena | |
Herpestes sanguineus Rüppell 1835 slender mongoose | |
Mellivora capensis Schreber 1776 honey badger |