Also known as ETE Locality 673, Kalemba Rock-Shelter,
Where: Zambia (14.1° S, 32.5° E: paleocoordinates 14.2° S, 32.4° E)
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Pleistocene to Pleistocene (2.6 - 0.0 Ma)
• ETE dating method: absolute, ETE age comment: >35000 BC on bone apatite; 1835 +- 70 AD on beans from pot radiometric intage_max, radiometric intage_min
Environment/lithology: cave
Collection methods: bulk, quarrying
• ETE Size: both; ETE reference list: 483, 482, 481, 480, 479, 478, 477, ; ETE museum list:
Primary reference: D. W. Phillipson. 1976. The Prehistory of Eastern Zambia. Memoir of the British Institute in Eastern Africa 6 [A. Behrensmeyer/A. Behrensmeyer/M. Kosnik]more details
PaleoDB collection 21854: authorized by Anna Behrensmeyer, entered by Anna Behrensmeyer on 13.05.1997, edited by John Damuth
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
unclassified | |
Angiospermae | |
Zea mays Linnaeus 1753 maize | |
Canavalia virosa jack-beans | |
Reptilia | |
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Varanus sp. Merrem 1820 monitor lizard | |
Mammalia | |
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Dendrohyrax sp. Gray 1868 tree hyrax | |
Orycteropus sp. Geoffroy 1791 aardvark | |
Loxodonta sp. Cuvier 1825 African elephant | |
Genetta sp. Cuvier 1816 civet | |
Equidae indet., "Equus burchelli" = Equus quagga burchelli
"Equus burchelli" = Equus quagga burchelli Gray 1824 Burchell's zebra | |
Potamochoerus sp. Gray 1854 pig
Phacochoerus sp. Cuvier 1826 warthog | |
Bovidae indet., Connochaetes sp., Kobus ellipsiprymnus, Redunca sp., Hippotragus niger, Ourebia ourebi, "Gazella thomsoni" = Eudorcas thomsoni, Cephalophus sp., Sylvicapra sp., Taurotragus oryx, Tragelaphus strepsiceros, Tragelaphus scriptus
Connochaetes sp. Lichtenstein 1812 wildebeest
Kobus ellipsiprymnus Ogilby 1833 waterbuck
Redunca sp. Smith 1827 reedbuck
Hippotragus niger Harris 1838 sable antelope
Ourebia ourebi Zimmerman 1783 oribi
"Gazella thomsoni" = Eudorcas thomsoni Gunther 1884 Thomson's gazelle
Cephalophus sp. Smith 1827 duiker
Sylvicapra sp. Ogilby 1837 duiker
Taurotragus oryx Pallas 1766 common eland
Tragelaphus strepsiceros Pallas 1766 greater kudu
Tragelaphus scriptus Pallas 1766 bushbuck | |
Hystricidae indet. Fischer de Waldheim 1817 porcupine ETE minimum number of individuals; species: Hystricidae
Hystrix sp. Linnaeus 1758 porcupine | |
Leporidae indet. Fischer de Waldheim 1817 rabbit ETE minimum number of individuals; species: Leporidae
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Papio sp. Erxleben 1777 baboon | |
Homo sapiens Linnaeus 1758 human | |
Otolemur crassicaudatus Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire 1812 galago |