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Les Pradelles (level 10)
Basic information
Sample name: Les Pradelles (level 10)

Sample aka: Marillac

Reference: S. Costamagno, L. Meignen, C. Beauval, B. Vandermeersch, and B. Maureille. 2006. Les Pradelles (Marillac-le-France, France): A mousterian reindeer hunting camp. Journal of Anthropological Archaeology 25:466-484 [ER 3979]
Geography
Country: France


Coordinate: 45° 44' N, 0° 26' E
Coordinate basis: based on nearby landmark

Time interval: Late Pleistocene

Unit number: 10

Unit order: above to below

Max Ma: 0.071

Min Ma: 0.0576

Age basis: other

Geography comments: "at Marillac-le-Franc (in the Department of Charente)" (coordinate based on Marillac-le-Franc)
layer 10 is also called "facies 2a"
a "burnt flint" from the immediately overlying lithofacies 2b was "TL-dated to 57.6 ± 4.5 ka" and the layer is no older than the "end of MIS 4", meaning 71 ka (Garralda et al. 2020)

Environment
Lithology: breccia

Taphonomic context: cave,human accumulation

Archaeology: stone tools

Habitat comments: "a collapsed gallery within a karst system" meaning a "sinkhole" or "collapsed karstic cave" according to Garralda et al. (2020)
"clast-supported limestone deposits associated to a clayey matrix" meaning a breccia (Garralda et al. 2020)
there are "cut marks on more than half of the long bone fragments" of reindeer, incating "primary butchery" on the site, so this is a hunting accumulation
there are 550 "lithic tools" in layer 10

Methods
Life forms: carnivores,primates,rodents,ungulates

Sampling methods: quarry

Sample size: 614 specimens

Years: 1967 - 1980, 2001

Sampling comments: "Although a Neanderthal mandible was discovered in 1939 (Ragout and Balout, 1942), it was not until 1967 that the site was subjected to a real scientific excavation. This fieldwork, carried out by Vandermeersch, went on until 1980. New excavations have been undertaken by Maureille and A. Mann since 2001"
the site stratigraphy was apparently developed by Vandermeersch, so the earlier collections are apparently not included here

Metadata
Sample number: 4393

Contributor: John Alroy

Enterer: John Alroy

Created: 2023-12-04 11:32:56

Modified: 2023-12-04 00:32:56

Abundance distribution
9 species
0 singletons
total count 614
extrapolated richness: 10.9
Fisher's α: 1.495
geometric series k: 0.5044
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.3809
Shannon's H: 0.8658
Good's u: 1.0000
Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts.
Register
Canis lupus1143 kg carnivore
Vulpes sp.7
"Vulpes" or "Alopex"
Crocuta spelaea7
Bovidae indet.54
"Bos" or "Bison"
Rangifer tarandus47769 kg browser
Cervus elaphus2104 kg
Equus ferus48422 kg
"Equus caballus germanicus"
Marmota marmota2
Homo neanderthalensis6
see Garralda et al. (2020, Table 1)