Where: Mount Carmel, Israel (32.7° N, 35.1° E: paleocoordinates 32.7° N, 35.0° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
When: Late/Upper Pleistocene (0.1 - 0.0 Ma)
• lower mousterian
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: marine; lithology not reported
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Collection methods: quarrying, surface (float), surface (in situ),
Primary reference: D. A. E. Garrod and D. M. A. Bate. 1937. The Stone Age of Mount Carmel, Vol. 1. Oxford University Press [W. Clyde/W. Clyde/W. Clyde]more details
Purpose of describing collection: archaeological analysis
PaleoDB collection 11803: authorized by Will Clyde, entered by John Finarelli on 10.09.2001, edited by Will Clyde
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
Reptilia | |
"Crocodilus sp." = Crocodylus
"Crocodilus sp." = Crocodylus Laurenti 1768 crocodile | |
Trionyx sp. Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire 1809 softshell turtle | |
Mammalia | |
Procavia cf. syriaca Cape hyrax | |
Equus hydruntinus, "Equus hemionus" = Equus (Hemionus) hemionus
Equus hydruntinus horse
"Equus hemionus" = Equus (Hemionus) hemionus Pallas 1775 onager | |
Hippopotamus amphibius Linnaeus 1758 hippo | |
Cervus elaphus Linnaeus 1758 red deer
Dama mesopotamica Brooke 1875 Persian fallow deer
Capreolus capreolus Linnaeus 1758 European roe deer | |
Sus gadarensis pig | |
Camelus sp. Linnaeus 1758 camel | |
Panthera pardus Linnaeus 1758 leopard | |
"Hyaena crocuta" = Crocuta crocuta, Hyaena prisca
"Hyaena crocuta" = Crocuta crocuta Erxleben 1777 spotted hyaena
Hyaena prisca De Serres 1828 hyaena | |
Vulpes vinetorum fox
Vulpes vulpes Linnaeus 1758 red fox
Canis cf. lupaster Hemprich and Eherenberg 1832 African wolf | |
Ursus mediterraneus bear | |
Crocidura katinka white-toothed shrew | |
Erinaceus sharonis hedgehog | |
Hystrix sp. Linnaeus 1758 porcupine | |
Cricetinae sp. Fischer von Waldheim 1817 mouse
Microtus machintoni vole
Microtus cf. guentheri Danford and Alston 1880 Günther's vole
Ellobius pedorychus mole-vole | |
Murinae indet. mouse
Gerbillinae sp. Gray 1825 gerbil | |
"Philistomys roachi" = Myomimus
"Philistomys roachi" = Myomimus dormouse | |
Myotis cf. baranensis Kormos 1934 vesper bat |