Also known as ETE Locality 744, Mlawula,
Where: Swaziland (26.4° S, 31.4° E: paleocoordinates 26.5° S, 31.3° E)
When: Pleistocene to Pleistocene (2.6 - 0.0 Ma)
• ETE dating method: absolute, ETE age comment: early Holocene, age based on stone tools and artifacts radiometric intage_max, radiometric intage_min
Environment/lithology: cave
Collection methods: quarrying
• ETE Size: macro; ETE reference list: 483, 482, 481, 479, 478, 477, ; ETE museum list:
Primary reference: R. G. Klein. 1986. Later Stone Age Faunal Samples from Heuningneskrans Shelter (Transvaal) and Leopard's Hill Cave (Zambia). The South African Archaeological Bulletin 39:109-116 [A. Behrensmeyer/A. Behrensmeyer/M. Kosnik]more details
PaleoDB collection 21925: authorized by Anna Behrensmeyer, entered by Anna Behrensmeyer on 13.05.1997, edited by John Damuth, Richard Potts and Hannah O'Regan
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Mammalia | |
Mellivora capensis Schreber 1776 honey badger | |
Herpestes sanguineus Rüppell 1835 slender mongoose | |
Parahyaena brunnea Thunberg 1820 brown hyaena | |
Panthera pardus Linnaeus 1758 leopard
"Felis caracal" = Caracal caracal Schreber 1776 caracal
"Felis serval" = Caracal serval Schreber 1776 serval | |
"Equus burchelli" = Equus quagga burchelli
"Equus burchelli" = Equus quagga burchelli Gray 1824 Burchell's zebra | |
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Oreotragus oreotragus, Raphicerus sharpei, Raphicerus campestris, Aepyceros melampus, Cephalophus monticola, Hippotragus equinus, Hippotragus niger, Damaliscus lunatus, Alcelaphus sp., Redunca fulvorufula, Tragelaphus strepsiceros
Oreotragus oreotragus Zimmermann 1783 klipspringer
Raphicerus sharpei Thomas 1897 Sharpe's grysbok
Raphicerus campestris Thunberg 1811 steenbok
Aepyceros melampus Lichtenstein 1812 impala
Cephalophus monticola Thunberg 1789 blue duiker
Hippotragus equinus Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire 1803 roan antelope
Hippotragus niger Harris 1838 sable antelope
Damaliscus lunatus Burchell 1823 common tsessebe
Alcelaphus sp. Blainville 1816 hartebeest
Redunca fulvorufula Afzelius 1815 mountain reedbuck
Tragelaphus strepsiceros Pallas 1766 greater kudu | |
Lepus saxatilis hare |