Mas d'Azil
Basic information
Sample name: Mas d'Azil
Reference: M. Patou. 1984. La faune de la Galerie Rive Droite du Mas d'Azil (Ariège): données paléoclimatiques et paléthnographiques. Bulletin de la Société préhistorique française 81(10/12):311-319 [ER 3099]
Geography
Country: France
Coordinate: 43° 5' N, 1° 22' E
Latlng basis: based on nearby landmark
Time interval: Late Pleistocene
Max Ma: 0.0134
Min Ma: 0.0132
Age basis: radiocarbon (uncalibrated)
Geography comments: "au Mas d'Azil dans la Galerie Rive Droite (de l'Arize)" (coordinate based on Le Mas d'Azil)
"de l'époque magdalénienne"
there are dates of "13 400 +/- 100 ans BP... et 13 200 +/- 110 BP" (calibration not discussed, but presumed to be uncalibrated because errors are symmetrically distributed)
"de l'époque magdalénienne"
there are dates of "13 400 +/- 100 ans BP... et 13 200 +/- 110 BP" (calibration not discussed, but presumed to be uncalibrated because errors are symmetrically distributed)
Environment
Lithology: not described
Taphonomic context: cave
Archaeology: bone tools, stone tools
Habitat comments: "industries lithique et osseuse et faune" are present
Methods
Life forms: carnivores, ungulates, other small mammals
Sampling methods: quarry
Sample size: 2009 specimens
Years: 1937 - 1943
Net or trap nights: 0
Basal area status: not applicable
Sampling comments: small vertebrates are present but not listed or counted
Metadata
Sample no: 3382
Contributor no: John Alroy
Enterer: John Alroy
Created: 2019-08-28 07:58:07
Modified: 2023-04-03 09:14:57
Abundance distribution
Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts. Values are logged.
Statistics
14 species
1 singleton
total count 2009
geometric series index: 17.7
Fisher's α: 2.029
geometric series k: 0.6088
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.5402
Shannon's H: 1.1006
Good's u: 0.9995
Register
| Rangifer tarandus (reindeer) | 1268 | 69.0 kg |
| Cervus elaphus (red deer) | 464 | |
| Equus ferus (wild horse) | 174 | |
| "Equus ferus caballus" | ||
| †Bos primigenius (aurochs) | 17 | |
| †Bison priscus (bison) | 9 | |
| Capreolus capreolus (roe deer) | 2 | |
| Rupicapra rupicapra (chamois) | 13 | 27.0 kg |
| Capra pyrenaica (Iberian ibex) | 20 | |
| "Capra ibex pyrenaica" | ||
| Sus scrofa (pig) | 2 | |
| Canis lupus (gray wolf) | 11 | 43.0 kg |
| †Ursus spelaeus (cave bear) | 4 | |
| †Crocuta spelaea (hyena) | 4 | |
| Vulpes vulpes (red fox) | 20 | |
| Oryctolagus cuniculus | 1 | 2.5 kg |