Kitchen Cave rockshelter site KAM-1, layer IV1 (Holocene of French Polynesia)

Where: French Polynesia (23.2° S, 135.0° W: paleocoordinates 23.2° S, 135.0° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Holocene (0.0 - 0.0 Ma)

• A series of 13 radiocarbon dates indicates initial occupation beginning around AD 1300 and more-or-less continual use of the rockshelter (probably intermittently) until European contact.

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; calcareous sandstone

Size class: macrofossils

Primary reference: S. Rigal, P. V. Kirch, and T. H. Worthy. 2018. New prehistoric avifaunas from the Gambier Group, French Polynesia. Palaeontologia Electronica 21(3.4A):1-35 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: archaeological analysis

PaleoDB collection 198024: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 07.12.2018

Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)

Taxonomic list

Aves
 Phaethontiformes - Phaethontidae
Phaethon lepturus Daudin 1802 white-tailed tropicbird
 Procellariiformes - Procellariidae
Puffinus cf. bailloni Bonaparte 1857 tropical shearwater
Puffinus magn. P. bailloni
Puffinus nativitatis Streets 1877 Christmas shearwater
 Procellariiformes - Hydrobatidae
Nesofregetta fuliginosa Gmelin 1789 Polynesian storm-petrel
 Charadriiformes - Laridae
Gygis alba Sparman 1786 white tern