Levi Site Zone III: Holocene, Texas
collected by H. L. Alexander, Jr. 1950, 1960
List of taxa
Where & when
Geology
Taphonomy & methods
Metadata & references
Taxonomic list
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Reptilia
- Crotalidae
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Crotalus sp.
Linnaeus 1758
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Mammalia
- Rodentia
- Cricetidae
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Neotoma sp.
Say and Ord 1825
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Mammalia
- Lagomorpha
- Leporidae
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Sylvilagus sp.
Gray 1867
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Mammalia
- Cervidae
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Odocoileus virginianus
(Zimmermann 1780)
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Geography
| Country: | United States | State/province: | Texas | County: | Travis |
| Coordinates: | 30.4° North, 98.1° West (view map) | ||||
| Paleocoordinates: | 30.4° North, 98.1° West | ||||
| Basis of coordinate: | stated in text | ||||
| Geographic resolution: | small collection |
Time
| Period: | Quaternary | Epoch: | Holocene |
| 10 m.y. bin: | Cenozoic 6 | ||
| Key time interval: | Holocene | ||
| Age range of interval: | 0.01170 - 0.00000 m.y. ago | ||
| Age estimate: | 10000 ± 175 to 9300 ± 160 YBP (14C) |
Stratigraphy
| Stratigraphic resolution: | bed | ||||
| Stratigraphy comments: "The maximum thickness of Zone III is 15 inches"; underlying Zone II is dated at 10,000 +/- 175 B.P. and overlying Zone IV is dated at 6750 +/- 150 B.P. (considered "inconsistent" with other dates and therefore "probably the result of contamination") and 9300 +/- 160 B.P. (radiocarbon on "snail and mussel shell"); age unclear, but presumably early Holocene based on lack of Pleistocene megafauna | |||||
Lithology and environment
| Primary lithology: | red sandstone |
| Lithology description: "a red-orange lens of water-deposited sand" with a "lack of internal stratifaction, it is presumed to have been deposited at one time" | |
| Environment: | cave |
Taphonomy
| Modes of preservation: | body,anthropogenic |
| Size of fossils: | macrofossils |
Collection methods and comments
| Collection methods: | bulk,selective quarrying,sieve,field collection | ||
| Minimum sieve size: | 6.350 | ||
| Reason for describing collection: | archaeological analysis | ||
| Collectors: | H. L. Alexander, Jr. | Collection dates: | 1950, 1960 |
| Collection method comments: "All work was done by trowel, and fill was transferred by bucket to the screen... All material was passed through 1/4 inch screen, and much of it also was run through fine window screen." | |||
| Taxonomic list comments:identifications are by E. L. Lundelius, Jr.; MNI counts are given, but are of unclear value given probable disassociation of the remains | |||
Metadata
| Also known as: | University of Texas Site No. 41TV49 | ||
| Database number: | 79583 | ||
| Authorizer: | J. Alroy | Enterer: | J. Alroy |
| Modifier: | J. Alroy | Research group: | vertebrate |
| Created: | 2008-03-13 22:57:53 | Last modified: | 2010-01-14 18:49:09 |
| Access level: | the public | Released: | 2008-03-13 22:57:53 |
| Creative Commons license: | CC BY | ||
Reference information
Primary reference:
| 26708. | H. L. Alexander, Jr. 1963. The Levi Site: a Paleo-Indian campsite in central Texas. American Antiquity 28(4):510-528 [J. Alroy/J. Alroy] |