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Sehonghong (OS)
Basic information
Sample name: Sehonghong (OS)

Reference: I. Plug and P. Mitchell. 2008. Sehonghong: hunter-gatherer utilization of animal resources in the highlands of Lesotho. Annals of the Transvaal Museum 45:31-53 [ER 3742]
Geography
Country: Lesotho

State: Thaba-Tseka


Coordinate: 29° 46' S, 28° 47' E
Coordinate basis: stated in text

Time interval: Late Pleistocene

Section: 3742

Unit number: 9

Unit order: above to below

Ma: 0.0202

Age basis: radiocarbon (uncalibrated)

Geography comments: "Sehonghong is a large rock-shelter on the banks of the Sehonghong River, close to its confluence with the Senqu (Orange/Gariep) in the Thaba Tseka District of the highlands of Lesotho. The site lies at an elevation of 1800 m above sea level".
Layer OS dates to 20,200 ± 100 BP based on a single radiocarbon date.

Environment
Lithology: sandstone

Taphonomic context: human accumulation,rock shelter

Archaeology: hearths,stone tools

Habitat comments: "Layer OS (Orange Sand) consists of a thin, largely sterile orange sand with a high number of small sandstone roof spalls whose lithic assemblage is assigned to the Middle to Later Stone Age transition. Hearths are present throughout all of the Pleistocene layers.
"While not all of the animal remains in the deposit would have been accumulated by people, the intense degree of fragmentation and burning that characterizes the Sehonghong assemblages strongly suggests that people were responsible for acquiring almost all of the faunal remains".

Methods
Life forms: rodents,ungulates,other large mammals,other small mammals,birds,lizards,frogs,fishes

Sampling methods: quarry,screenwash

Sample size: 80 specimens

Sampled by: P. Mitchell

Years: 1992

Sampling comments: "The primary excavation of the site was conducted by P. Mitchell in 1992. All sediment removed from the deposits was dry-sieved through a 1.5 mm mesh".

Metadata
Sample number: 3987

Contributor: Benjamin Carter

Enterer: Benjamin Carter

Created: 2022-08-25 16:47:52

Modified: 2023-05-30 01:41:02

Abundance distribution
12 species
5 singletons
total count 80
extrapolated richness: 26.1
Fisher's α: 3.915
geometric series k: 0.7318
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.7519
Shannon's H: 1.7649
Good's u: 0.9378
Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts.
Register
Soricidae indet.1
"Shrew"
Procavia capensis52.8 kg browser
Connochaetes gnou1 grazer
also 1 Alcelaphinae indet.
Ourebia ourebi114 kg grazer-browser
Hippotragus equinus1246 kg grazer
Taurotragus oryx2393 kg browser-grazer
"Tragelaphus oryx"; also 29 Bovidae indet.
Otomys sp.8
also 55 Rodentia indet.
Aves indet.3
Pseudocordylus melanotus4
also 3 Lacertilia indet.
Anura indet.22
"Frog/toad"
Labeobarbus aeneus31
Labeo capensis1
also 44 Labeoninae indet.