Cueva del Angel
Basic information
Sample name: Cueva del Angel
Reference: C. B. Ruíz, D. B. Ortega, M. Caparrós, A. M. Moigne, V. Celiberti, A. Testu, D. Barsky, O. Notter, J. A. R. Cantal, M. P. Rodríguez, M. I. C. León, G. M. Gómez, S. Khatib, T. Saos, S. Gregoire, S. Bailón, J. A. Solano, A. L. Cabral Mesa, A. Djerrab, I. G. Hedley, S. Abdessadok, G. B. Llasat, N. Astier, L. Bertin, N. Boulbes, D. Cauche, A. Filoux, C. Hanquet, C. Milizia, J. Moutoussamy, E. Rossoni, L. V. Bermejo, and H. de Lumley. 2011. The Cueva del Angel (Lucena, Spain): An Acheulean hunters habitat in the South of the Iberian Peninsula. Quaternary International 243:105-126 [ER 3093]
Geography
Country: Spain
State: Cordoba
Coordinate: 37° 22' 10" N, 4° 29' 44" W
Latlng basis: stated in text
Time interval: Late Pleistocene
Min Ma: 0.121
Age basis: U/Th
Geography comments: "on the outskirts of the town of Lucena"
"a preliminary 230Th/234U dating of a calcite flowstone partially sealing the sedimentary sequence in zone L6 of bed VIII... has given an age of 121 + 11/-10 ka" so "the top of the Cueva del Angel sequence coincides with the beginning of MIS 5"
bed VIII overlies most of the fossiliferous unit, so the date appears to be a minimum
"a preliminary 230Th/234U dating of a calcite flowstone partially sealing the sedimentary sequence in zone L6 of bed VIII... has given an age of 121 + 11/-10 ka" so "the top of the Cueva del Angel sequence coincides with the beginning of MIS 5"
bed VIII overlies most of the fossiliferous unit, so the date appears to be a minimum
Environment
Lithology: siliciclastic (mixed)
Taphonomic context: cave, human accumulation
Archaeology: stone tools
Habitat comments: there are "numerous lithic artefacts" in Unit II, which yielded most of the fossils, and "88% of the faunal bone remains are burnt"
Unit II consists of "gravel 22%, sand 40%, silt 27% and clay 11%"
Unit II consists of "gravel 22%, sand 40%, silt 27% and clay 11%"
Methods
Life forms: carnivores, ungulates
Sampling methods: quarry
Sample size: 2959 specimens
Net or trap nights: 0
Basal area status: not applicable
Sampling comments: small vertebrates are discussed, but no usable counts are given
Metadata
Sample no: 3372
Contributor no: John Alroy
Enterer: John Alroy
Created: 2019-08-27 12:54:03
Modified: 2023-12-02 10:52:24
Abundance distribution
Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts. Values are logged.
Statistics
13 species
2 singletons
total count 2959
geometric series index: 16.2
Fisher's α: 1.749
geometric series k: 0.5539
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.7551
Shannon's H: 1.7085
Good's u: 0.9993
Register
| Equus ferus (wild horse) | 1200 | |
| Bovini indet. | 601 | |
| both Bos primigenius and Bison priscus | ||
| Cervus elaphus (red deer) | 514 | |
| Dama dama (European fallow deer) | 143 | |
| Sus scrofa (pig) | 150 | |
| Ursus arctos (brown bear) | 109 | |
| †Ursus spelaeus (cave bear) | 1 | |
| †Stephanorhinus hemitoechus (narrow-nosed rhinoceros) | 124 | |
| Lynx pardinus spelaeus (Iberian lynx) | 88 | |
| Felis silvestris (European wildcat) | 3 | 4.5 kg |
| Canis lupus (gray wolf) | 17 | 43.0 kg |
| †Palaeoloxodon antiquus (elephant) | 8 | |
| Capra sp. | 1 | |