Also known as Artenac-en-Charente
Where: 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 7 is ?Stage 5, temperate to cold.
Environment/lithology: cave
Size classes: macrofossils, mesofossils
Preservation: anthropogenic, bone collector
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 43630: authorized by Alan Turner, entered by Hannah O'Regan on 17.08.2004
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Mammalia | |
Equus hydruntinus horse | |
Cervus sp. Linnaeus 1758 deer
Rangifer tarandus Linnaeus 1758 reindeer | |
Bovinae indet. Gray 1821 antelope | |
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Ursus sp. Linnaeus 1758 bear | |
Meles sp. Brisson 1762 badger | |
Vulpes sp. Frisch 1775 fox | |
Talpa europaea Linnaeus 1758 European mole | |
Oryctolagus cuniculus Linnaeus 1758 European rabbit | |
Microtus gregalis vole
Microtus oeconomus Pallas 1776 tundra vole
Microtus arvalis Pallas 1779 common vole
Arvicola terrestris Linnaeus 1758 European water vole |