Prolonged Drift: Holocene, Kenya
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Mammalia
- Proboscidea
- Elephantidae
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Loxodonta africana
(Blumenbach 1797)
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Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Equidae
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Equus burchelli
Gray 1824
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478 specimens | |||||||||
| recombined as Equus quagga burchelli | ||||||||||
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Mammalia
- Perissodactyla
- Rhinocerotidae
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Ceratotherium simum
(Burchell 1821)
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4 specimens | |||||||||
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Mammalia
- Suidae
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Phacochoerus aethiopicus
(Pallas 1766)
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14 specimens | |||||||||
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Mammalia
- Giraffidae
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Giraffa camelopardalis
(Linnaeus 1758)
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6 specimens | |||||||||
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Mammalia
- Bovidae
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Aepyceros melampus
(Lichtenstein 1812)
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35 specimens | |||||||||
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Connochaetes taurinus
(Burchell 1823)
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243 specimens | |||||||||
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Alcelaphus buselaphus
Pallas 1766
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138 specimens | |||||||||
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Caprini indet.
Gray 1821
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46 specimens | |||||||||
| ETE number of identifiable specimens; species: Caprini | ||||||||||
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Gazella thomsoni
Gunther 1884
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165 specimens | |||||||||
| recombined as Eudorcas thomsoni | ||||||||||
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Gazella granti
Brooke 1872
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122 specimens | |||||||||
| recombined as Nanger granti | ||||||||||
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Taurotragus oryx
(Pallas 1766)
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37 specimens | |||||||||
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Syncerus caffer
(Sparman 1779)
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11 specimens | |||||||||
| original and current combination Bos caffer | ||||||||||
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Bos taurus
Linnaeus 1758
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252 specimens | |||||||||
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Mammalia
- Lagomorpha
- Leporidae
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Lepus capensis
Linnaeus 1758
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1 specimen | |||||||||
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Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Spalacidae
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Tachyoryctes splendens
Rüppell 1835
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28 specimens | |||||||||
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Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Muridae
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Acomys sp.
Geoffroy 1838
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6 specimens | |||||||||
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Geography
| Country: | Kenya |
| Coordinates: | 0.4° South, 36.1° East (view map) |
| Paleocoordinates: | 0.4° South, 36.1° East |
| Geographic resolution: | outcrop |
Time
| Period: | Quaternary | Epoch: | Holocene |
| 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 6 | *Epoch: | holocene |
| *International age/stage: | Holocene (minimum) | ||
| Key time interval: | Holocene | ||
| Age range of interval: | 0.01170 - 0.00000 m.y. ago | ||
| * legacy (obsolete) database fields | |||
Stratigraphy
| Stratigraphy comments: ETE dating method: absolute, ETE age comment: 502530 +- 160; 2315 +- 1250; dates on elephant ivory radiometric intage_max, radiometric intage_min |
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | siltstone |
| Lithology description: ETE rock type adj: 0, ETE lithology comments: silts and sands; brown silts | |
| Geology comments: ETE sed env 1: fluvial, ETE sed env 2: floodplain ETE event: midden, ETE env comment: cluster of middens and living areas | |
Taphonomy
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | selective quarrying |
| Collection size: | 165000 specimens |
| Collection method comments: ETE Size: macro; ETE reference list: 491, 487, 485, 483, 482, 477, 456, 121, 81, ; ETE museum list: | |
Metadata
| Also known as: | ETE Locality 755, Prolonged Drift, | ||
| Database number: | 21936 | ||
| Authorizer: | A. Behrensmeyer | Enterer: | A. Behrensmeyer, R. Potts, J. Damuth |
| Modifier: | M. Kosnik | ||
| Created: | 1997-05-13 00:00:00 | Last modified: | 2002-06-25 21:59:02 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 1997-05-13 00:00:00 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY | ||
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 5242. | ETE 954 | D. P. Gifford-Gonzalez and J. Kimengich. 1984. Faunal Evidence for Early Stockkeeping in the Central Rift Valley of Kenya: Preliminary Findings. In: Origin and Early Development of Food Producing Cultures in North-Eastern Africa; Polish Academy of Sciences; Poznan Archaeological Museum [A. Behrensmeyer/A. Behrensmeyer/M. Kosnik] |