Where: Russian Federation (50.9° N, 84.8° E: paleocoordinates 50.9° N, 84.8° E)
• coordinate estimated from map
• small collection-level geographic resolution
When: Late/Upper Pleistocene (0.1 - 0.0 Ma)
• "Upper Paleolithic" with a "tool assemblage in the Mousterian tradition" and "may be attributed to the warm phase that preceded the last glaciation in the Altai"; "the layer containing cultural remains" was "up to 1.75 m thick"
• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: cave; paleosol/pedogenic limestone
Size class: macrofossils
• "Remains of animals... consisted of broken bones... in a poor state of preservation. Tubular bones were broken into small splinters by man... and some had been gnawed by predators... A very small part of the bones... could have been brought in by carnivores such as hyaena and wolf... Bones of small animals and possibly of certain birds represent remains of food of owls"
Preservation: anthropogenic, bone collector, coprolite
Collected by S. I. Rudenko, I. M. Pavliuchenko in 1954
Collection methods: quarrying,
Primary reference: S. I. Rudenko. 1960. Ust'-Kanskaya peshchernaya paleoliticheskaya stoyanka. Materiali i Issledovaniya po Arkheologii SSR 79:104-125 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: archaeological analysis
PaleoDB collection 79548: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 12.03.2008
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
Aves | |
Anas crecca, Anas platyrhynchos, Anser anser, "Anas strepera" = Mareca strepera, "Casarca ferruginea" = Tadorna ferruginea
Anas crecca Linnaeus 1758 Eurasian teal
Anas platyrhynchos Linnaeus 1758 mallard
Anser anser Linnaeus 1758 greylag goose
"Anas strepera" = Mareca strepera Linnaeus 1758 gadwall
"Casarca ferruginea" = Tadorna ferruginea Pallas 1764 Ruddy shelduck | |
Pyrrhocorax pyrrhocorax Linnaeus 1758 red-billed chough | |
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Lyrurus tetrix Linnaeus 1758 black grouse
Lagopus lagopus Linnaeus 1758 willow ptarmigan
Perdix perdix Linnaeus 1758 grey partridge | |
Mammalia | |
"Citellus undulatus" = Spermophilus, Marmota sp.
"Citellus undulatus" = Spermophilus ground squirrel
Marmota sp. Frisch 1775 marmot | |
Microtus sp. Schrank 1798 vole | |
Lepus tolai hare | |
Gazella cf. gutturosa gazelle
"Ovis ammon" = Capra ammon Linnaeus 1758 argali | |
"Rhinoceros tichorhinus" = Coelodonta antiquitatis
"Rhinoceros tichorhinus" = Coelodonta antiquitatis Blumenbach 1799 wooly rhino | |
Equus caballus, "Equus hemionus" = Equus (Hemionus) hemionus
"Equus hemionus" = Equus (Hemionus) hemionus Pallas 1775 onager | |
Canis lupus Linnaeus 1758 gray wolf
Vulpes vulpes Linnaeus 1758 red fox | |
Ursus cf. arctos Linnaeus 1758 brown bear | |
Mustela erminea Linnaeus 1758 stoat
Meles meles Linnaeus 1758 European badger | |
Crocuta spelaea spotted hyaena |