Sample name: Cava Muracci

Sample aka: Cisterna di Latina

Reference: M. Gatta, T. Kotsakis, L. Pandolfi, C. Petronio, L. Salari, K. F. Achino, L. Silvestri, and M. F. Rolfo. 2019. The Late Pleistocene faunal assemblage from Cava Muracci (Latium, Italy): Palaeoenvironmental implications for coastal central Italy during MIS 3. Comptes Rendus Palevol 18:51-71 [ER 3103]

Lithology: claystone

Taphonomic context: carnivore accumulation,cave

Archaeology: stone tools

Habitat comments: "SU11, a 45–100 cm-thick, compact layer of clay and clasts, is the most important layer. It contained abundant mammal remains, coprolites and sporadic lithic artefacts... Data collected indicate the feeding and probably scavenging activity of Crocuta crocuta as the main agent of bone accumulation and the SU11 of Area 3 as a probable hyena den"

Life forms: carnivores,rodents,ungulates,other small mammals,birds,lizards,snakes,frogs,fishes

Sampling methods: quarry,screenwash

Sample size: 717 specimens

Years: 2012 - 2016

Sampling comments: "The soil was fully sieved with a 2-mm mesh in the field"

Sample number: 3389

Contributor: John Alroy

Enterer: John Alroy

Created: 2019-08-28 23:02:43

Modified: 2023-02-24 12:08:46