Also known as Artenac-en-Charente
Where: Poitou-Charentes, France (45.7° N, 0.2° E: paleocoordinates 45.6° N, 0.1° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
When: 5 Member, Late/Upper Pleistocene (0.1 - 0.0 Ma)
• There are five members at this site ranging in age from the Middle to Upper Pleistocene. Members 1-3 (beds I-V) are Middle Pleistocene levels, the Upper Pleistocene is represented by Members 4-5 (beds 5-10). Bed 5 is the top-most of the sequence and is though to be ?Stage 4, temperate to cold.
Environment/lithology: cave
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: anthropogenic
Collection methods: bulk,
• This material is still under study.
Primary reference: A. Delagnes, J.-F. Tournepiche, D. Armand, E. Desclaux, M.-F. Diot, C. Ferrier, V. Le Fillatre and B. Vandermeersch. 1999. Le gisement Pleistocene moyen et superieur d'Artenac (Saint-Mary, Charent): premier bilan interdisciplinaire. Bulletin de la Societe Prehistorique Francaise 96(4):469-496 [A. Turner/H. O'Regan/H. O'Regan]more details
Purpose of describing collection: archaeological analysis
PaleoDB collection 43632: authorized by Alan Turner, entered by Hannah O'Regan on 17.08.2004
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Mammalia | |
Equus caballus Linnaeus 1758 horse | |
Cervus sp. Linnaeus 1758 deer
Rangifer tarandus Linnaeus 1758 reindeer | |
Canis lupus Linnaeus 1758 gray wolf | |
Meles meles Linnaeus 1758 European badger |