AG/A, Ave Grande, Las Aves de Sotavento (Holocene of Venezuela)

Where: Venezuela (12.0° N, 67.7° W: paleocoordinates 12.0° N, 67.7° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Holocene (0.0 - 0.0 Ma)

• All remaining indigenous temporary occupations of the islands discussed here occurred between ∼AD 1000 and 1500 (Antczak and Antczak 1993, 2006).

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: anthropogenic, midden

Primary reference: M. M. Antczak, A. T. Antczaj, and M. Lentino. 2019. Avian remains from late pre-colonial Amerindian sites on islands of the Venezuelan Caribbean. Environmental Archaeology 24:161-181 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: archaeological analysis

PaleoDB collection 197935: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 02.12.2018

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Aves
 Suliformes - Fregatidae
Fregata cf. magnificens Mathews 1914 Magnificent frigatebird
 Suliformes - Sulidae
Sula sp. Brisson 1760 booby
Sula sula Linnaeus 1766 red-footed booby
Sula leucogaster Boddaert 1783 brown booby
 Pelecaniformes - Pelecanidae
Pelecanus occidentalis Linnaeus 1766 brown pelican
 Pelecaniformes - Ardeidae
Ardea cf. herodias Linnaeus 1758 great blue heron
 Charadriiformes - Laridae
Laridae indet. Vigors 1825 gull
Anous sp. Stephens 1826 gull
Anous stolidus Linnaeus 1758 brown noddy