Where: Chiapas, Mexico (14.8° N, 92.5° W: paleocoordinates 14.8° N, 92.5° W)

• coordinate estimated from map

• outcrop-level geographic resolution

When: Holocene (0.0 - 0.0 Ma)

• People occupied Paso de la Amada from ca. 3800 to 2900 cal BP (calendrically calibrated radiocarbon years before present). About 80% of the pottery associated with the bird bones is from the Cherla Phase, with ca. 20% from the earlier Locona and Ocós phases. The bird bones are therefore ca. 3600 to 3150 years old.

• group of beds-level stratigraphic resolution

Environment/lithology: terrestrial; unlithified siliciclastic sediments

Size class: macrofossils

Preservation: anthropogenic

Collection methods: sieve

Primary reference: D. W. Steadman, M. P. Tellkamp, and T. A. Wake. 2003. Prehistoric exploitation of birds on the Pacific coast of Chiapas, Mexico. The Condor 105:572-579 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details

Purpose of describing collection: general faunal/floral analysis

PaleoDB collection 195047: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 14.07.2018

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