Also known as ETE Locality 886, Gravieur inferieur, Ishango - G. INF.,
Where: Congo-Kinshasa (0.1° S, 29.6° E)
• coordinate estimated from map
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Late/Upper Pleistocene (0.1 - 0.0 Ma)
• "The first stage, characterised by the Ishangian levels, is illustrative for a Late Pleistocene hunter-fisher-gatherer Community adapted to relatively dry and open savanna living conditions. For the moment it is impossible to give a more precise estimate of the age of the Ishango culture, but it is not inconceivable that the N.F.PR. assemblage relates to one of somewhat drier phases that occurred within the second half of the Late Pleistocene, i.e. from ca. 21000 to 17500 BP or from 14500 to 12500 BP."
•ETE dating method: absolute, ETE age comment: "Max age = 82,000 +/- 8000 (Katanda beds, above ASB paleosol). Min age = 6890 +/- 75 (Katwe ash charcoal)." radiometric intage_max, radiometric intage_min
Environment/lithology: lacustrine; gravel
Size class: macrofossils
Collection methods: quarrying, surface (in situ)
• ETE Size: macro; ETE reference list: 487, 483, 482, 481, 478, 477, ; ETE museum list:
Primary reference: J. Peters. 1990. Late Pleistocene hunter-gatherers at Ishango (eastern Zaire): the faunal evidence. Revue de Paléobiologie 9(1):73-112 [A. Behrensmeyer/A. Behrensmeyer/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: archaeological analysis
PaleoDB collection 22065: authorized by Anna Behrensmeyer, entered by Anna Behrensmeyer on 18.02.1999, edited by Richard Potts
Creative Commons license: CC0 (CC0)
Taxonomic list
Actinopteri | |
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Lates niloticus Linnaeus 1758 Nile perch | |
Barbus cf. bynni Forsskål 1775 binny ETE number of identifiable specimens; species: cf. bynni, mak - species name from unique name
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Clarotes sp. Kner 1855 catfish | |
Clarias sp. Scopoli 1777 catfish ETE number of identifiable specimens; species: cf. gariepinus, mak - species name from unique name
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Synodontis sp. Cuvier 1816 upside down catfish
Synodontis frontosus Vaillant 1895 Sudan squeaker | |
Mammalia | |
Kobus defassa Rüppell 1835 Defassa waterbuck
Alcelaphus lelwell hartebeest | |
Hippopotamus amphibius Linnaeus 1758 hippo | |
Phacochoerus aethiopicus Pallas 1766 desert warthog | |
"Lutra maculicollis" = Hydrictis maculicollis
"Lutra maculicollis" = Hydrictis maculicollis Lichtenstein 1835 speckle-throated otter | |
Osteichthyes | |
Protopterus aethiopicus Heckel 1851 marbled lungfish |