Where: Hawaii (20.2° N, 155.9° W: paleocoordinates 20.2° N, 155.9° W)
• coordinate based on political unit
When: Holocene (0.0 - 0.0 Ma)
• A single radiocarbon date recovered from 10 to 15 centimeters below ground surface yielded a range at one standard deviation of A. D. 1418 to 1618, 1466 to 1666 and 1538 to 1738, placing the occupation of the structure within the pre-Contact period somewhere between A. D. 1418 and 1738.
Environment/lithology: terrestrial; lithology not reported
Size class: macrofossils
Preservation: anthropogenic
Primary reference: L. L. N. Reeve, R. B. Reeve, and P. L. Cleghorn. 2013. The Hawaiian Monk Seal in Traditional Hawaiian Culture. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration [M. Uhen/M. Uhen]more details
Purpose of describing collection: archaeological analysis
PaleoDB collection 190689: authorized by Mark Uhen, entered by Mark Uhen on 14.12.2017
Creative Commons license: CC BY (attribution)
Taxonomic list
Mammalia | |
Neomonachus schauinslandi Hermann 1779 Hawaiian monk seal |