Where: Venezuela (12.0° N, 67.7° W)
• coordinate based on nearby landmark
• outcrop-level geographic resolution
When: Holocene (0.0 - 0.0 Ma)
• All remaining indigenous temporary occupations of the islands discussed here occurred between ∼AD 1000 and 1500 (Antczak and Antczak 1993, 2006).
• bed-level stratigraphic resolution
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: anthropogenic, midden
Primary reference: M. M. Antczak, A. T. Antczaj, and M. Lentino. 2019. Avian remains from late pre-colonial Amerindian sites on islands of the Venezuelan Caribbean. Environmental Archaeology 24:161-181 [M. Clapham/M. Clapham/M. Clapham]more details
Purpose of describing collection: archaeological analysis
PaleoDB collection 197935: authorized by Matthew Clapham, entered by Matthew Clapham on 02.12.2018
Creative Commons license: CC0 (CC0)
Taxonomic list
| Aves | |
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Laridae indet. Vigors 1825 gull
Anous sp. Stephens 1826 gull
Anous stolidus Linnaeus 1758 brown noddy | |
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Fregata cf. magnificens Mathews 1914 Magnificent frigatebird | |
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Sula sp. Brisson 1760 booby
Sula sula Linnaeus 1766 red-footed booby
Sula leucogaster Boddaert 1783 brown booby | |
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Pelecanus occidentalis Linnaeus 1766 brown pelican | |
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Ardea cf. herodias Linnaeus 1758 great blue heron | |