HP766
Basic information
Sample name: HP766

Sample aka: Wadi Umm Rahau

Reference: A. Gautier, D. Makowiecki, H. Paner, and W. Van Neer. 2012. Palaeolithic big game hunting at HP766 in Wadi Umm Rahau, northern Sudan. Journal of African Archaeology 10(2):165-174 [ER 3852]
Geography
Country: Sudan


Coordinate: 18.829569° N, 32.030422° E
Coordinate basis: stated in text

Time interval: Late Pleistocene

Max Ma: 0.02145

Min Ma: 0.01236

Age basis: radiocarbon (uncalibrated)

Geography comments: "in a bend of the north-western sector of Wadi Umm Rahau... approximately 2 km north of the village of El Argub... some 1800 m from the present-day main Nile channel"
there are six uncalibrated radiocarbon dates ranging from 12,360 +/- 60 to 21,450 +/- 140 bp

Environment
Lithology: sandstone

Taphonomic context: aeolian deposit

Archaeology: stone tools

Habitat comments: the material came from the surface and from three subsurface layers: an eolian sand closest to the surface, a fine sand, a silt
there are "many fragmented bone remains, with blackish discolorations, many weathering cracks and irregular post-depositional fractures" with "no clear evidence of butchering or other human activities"
"9000 lithics" were also collected
"most of the lithics" are dated "to the Terminal MSA and the LSA, but in layer 3 some Neolithic artifacts were registered, indicating late and deep reworking of some parts of the site"

Methods
Life forms: ungulates

Sampling methods: quarry,screenwash,surface

Sample size: 31 specimens

Years: 2006

Sampling comments: "Field work at the site took place from early Febru- ary to early March 2006... Most of the artifacts and bones were collected by hand from the surface" but some came from an excavation and "the spoils were passed through a sieve with a 2x2 mm mesh"

Metadata
Sample number: 4218

Contributor: John Alroy

Enterer: John Alroy

Created: 2023-04-10 17:08:26

Modified: 2023-04-10 07:08:26

Abundance distribution
8 species
2 singletons
total count 31
extrapolated richness: 15.5
Fisher's α: 3.494
geometric series k: 0.6932
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.7538
Shannon's H: 1.7241
Good's u: 0.9395
Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts.
Register
Diceros bicornis4894 kg browser
Equus africanus1287 kg
"wild ass"
Equus quagga2279 kg grazer
"Equus burchelli": plus 19 indeterminate equids
Hippopotamus amphibius21107 kg grazer
Camelus thomasi3
Hippotragus equinus1246 kg grazer
Bovinae indet.5
Syncerus caffer or Bos primigenius
Giraffa camelopardalis13942 kg browser