Where: Alaska (65.3° N, 151.0° W: paleocoordinates 65.3° N, 151.0° W)

• coordinate based on nearby landmark

• small collection-level geographic resolution

When: Holocene (0.0 - 0.0 Ma)

• "sampling units were removed in 5- or 10-cm thick levels" in 1978 and "at 5-cm-thick intervals" in 1987

•A/B contact includes dates of 3470 +/- 90 and 3510 +/- 100 on charcoal

• bed-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: cave; brown breccia

Size class: macrofossils

• "The cultural assemblage consists of features and artifacts at the stratigraphic contact of units A and B" and comprises "lithic artifacts, an hearth feature, a culturally modified bone fragment, and a cluster of bear bones" belonging to "a single animal"

•"Carnivore gnaw marks of one or more types are on approximately 75% of all bone specimens" and the cave is interpreted as a carnivore den

Preservation: anthropogenic, bone collector

Collected in 1978, 1987

Collection methods: bulk, quarrying, sieve

• in 1987 "sediments were sieved in the field through nested shaker screens with 1/4 and 1/8 in. mesh"

Primary reference: R. A. Sattler. 1997. Large mammals in Lower Rampart Cave 1, Alaska: interspecific utilization of an eastern Beringian cave. Geoarchaeology 12(6):657-688 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy]more details

Purpose of describing collection: archaeological analysis

PaleoDB collection 93336: authorized by John Alroy, entered by John Alroy on 14.01.2010

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