Where: Russian Federation (50.9° N, 84.8° E: paleocoordinates 50.9° N, 84.8° E)

• coordinate estimated from map

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Late/Upper Pleistocene (0.1 - 0.0 Ma)

• "Upper Paleolithic" with a "tool assemblage in the Mousterian tradition" and "may be attributed to the warm phase that preceded the last glaciation in the Altai"; "the layer containing cultural remains" was "up to 1.75 m thick"

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: cave; paleosol/pedogenic limestone

Size class: macrofossils

• "Remains of animals... consisted of broken bones... in a poor state of preservation. Tubular bones were broken into small splinters by man... and some had been gnawed by predators... A very small part of the bones... could have been brought in by carnivores such as hyaena and wolf... Bones of small animals and possibly of certain birds represent remains of food of owls"

Preservation: anthropogenic, bone collector, coprolite

Collected by S. I. Rudenko, I. M. Pavliuchenko in 1954

Collection methods: quarrying,

Primary reference: S. I. Rudenko. 1960. Ust'-Kanskaya peshchernaya paleoliticheskaya stoyanka. Materiali i Issledovaniya po Arkheologii SSR 79:104-125 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: archaeological analysis

PaleoDB collection 79548: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 12.03.2008

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