Mlawula (Pleistocene to of Swaziland)

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

• ETE sed env 1: karst, ETE sed env 2: cave ETE event: ., ETE env comment: rock shelter
• ETE rock type adj: 0, ETE lithology comments: dolomite shelter

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

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Taxonomic list

Mammalia
 Lagomorpha - Leporidae
 Perissodactyla - Equidae
"Equus burchelli" = Equus quagga burchelli
"Equus burchelli" = Equus quagga burchelli Gray 1824 Burchell's zebra
 Artiodactyla - Suidae
Suidae indet. Gray 1821 pig
ETE number of identifiable specimens; species: Suidae
 Artiodactyla - Bovidae
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
 Carnivora - Felidae
Panthera pardus, "Felis caracal" = Caracal caracal, "Felis serval" = Caracal serval
Panthera pardus Linnaeus 1758 leopard
"Felis caracal" = Caracal caracal Schreber 1776 caracal
"Felis serval" = Caracal serval Schreber 1776 serval
 Carnivora - Hyaenidae
Parahyaena brunnea Thunberg 1820 brown hyaena
 Carnivora - Herpestidae
Herpestes sanguineus Rüppell 1835 slender mongoose
 Carnivora - Mustelidae
Mellivora capensis Schreber 1776 honey badger