Where: Turkey (41.0° N, 29.0° E: paleocoordinates 41.0° N, 29.0° E)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
When: Middle Pleistocene (0.8 - 0.1 Ma)
• Middle Pleistocene, probably Late Middle Pleistocene. The cave is 600m deep, with 2 entrances. Deposits within 70m of the lower entrance contain animal remains and palaeolithic artefacts.
Environment/lithology: cave; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: bone collector, coprolite
Collection methods: bulk,
• Middle Pleistocene levels excavated from 1988-1990, by the University of Istanbul and University of California at Berkeley. Material stored at the Section of Prehistory, University of Istanbul.
Primary reference: M. C. Stiner, G. Arsebuk, and F. C. Howell. 1996. Cave bears and paleolithic artifacts in Yarimburgaz Cave, Turkey: Dissecting a palimpsest. Geoarchaeology 11(4):279-327 [A. Turner/H. O'Regan/H. O'Regan]more details
Purpose of describing collection: archaeological analysis
PaleoDB collection 43008: authorized by Alan Turner, entered by Hannah O'Regan on 09.08.2004
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Mammalia | |
Vulpes sp. Frisch 1775 fox
Canis lupus Linnaeus 1758 gray wolf | |
Mustelidae indet. Fischer 1817 mustelid carnivore | |
Ursus deningeri Reichenau 1904 bear 99% of bear remains. Probably a late and large bodeid form of U. deningeri rather than U. spelaeus.
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"Felis caracal" = Caracal caracal Schreber 1776 caracal
Felis sylvestris cat
Panthera leo Linnaeus 1758 lion | |
Crocuta crocuta Erxleben 1777 spotted hyaena | |
"Equus ? hemionus" = Equus (Hemionus) hemionus, Equus caballus
Equus caballus Linnaeus 1758 horse | |
? Hippopotamus sp. Linnaeus 1758 hippo Unidentfied species of Pachyderm, in Table 1a as ?Hippopotamus.
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Bison cf. priscus Bojanus 1827 bison
cf. Bos primigenius Bojanus 1827 ox | |
Sus scrofa Linnaeus 1758 wild boar |