Cava Muracci
Basic information
Sample name: Cava Muracci
Sample aka: Cisterna di Latina
Reference: M. Gatta, T. Kotsakis, L. Pandolfi, C. Petronio, L. Salari, K. F. Achino, L. Silvestri, and M. F. Rolfo. 2019. The Late Pleistocene faunal assemblage from Cava Muracci (Latium, Italy): Palaeoenvironmental implications for coastal central Italy during MIS 3. Comptes Rendus Palevol 18:51-71 [ER 3103]
Geography
Country: Italy
Coordinate: 42° 36' 53" N, 13° 51' 23" E
Latlng basis: stated in text
Time interval: Late Pleistocene
Max Ma: 0.044054
Min Ma: 0.03481
Age basis: radiocarbon
Geography comments: "in the Pontine Plain"
"late Pleistocene, between 34, 810 BP and 44, 054 BP" (no further details about dates are given)
"late Pleistocene, between 34, 810 BP and 44, 054 BP" (no further details about dates are given)
Environment
Lithology: claystone
Taphonomic context: carnivore accumulation, cave
Archaeology: stone tools
Habitat comments: "SU11, a 45–100 cm-thick, compact layer of clay and clasts, is the most important layer. It contained abundant mammal remains, coprolites and sporadic lithic artefacts... Data collected indicate the feeding and probably scavenging activity of Crocuta crocuta as the main agent of bone accumulation and the SU11 of Area 3 as a probable hyena den"
Methods
Life forms: carnivores, rodents, ungulates, other small mammals, birds, lizards, snakes, frogs, fishes
Sampling methods: quarry, screenwash
Sample size: 717 specimens
Years: 2012 - 2016
Net or trap nights: 0
Basal area status: not applicable
Sampling comments: "The soil was fully sieved with a 2-mm mesh in the field"
Metadata
Sample no: 3389
Contributor no: John Alroy
Enterer: John Alroy
Created: 2019-08-28 23:02:43
Modified: 2023-02-24 12:08:46
Abundance distribution
Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts. Values are logged.
Statistics
29 species
9 singletons
total count 717
geometric series index: 53.5
Fisher's α: 6.066
geometric series k: 0.8185
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.7529
Shannon's H: 1.8459
Good's u: 0.9875
Register
| Osteichthyes indet. | 1 | |
| Bufo bufo | 1 | |
| Bufo "gr. viridis" | 1 | |
| "Bufotes gr. viridis" | ||
| Rana sp. 1 | 3 | |
| Rana sp. 2 | 1 | |
| Podarcis sp. | 6 | |
| Anguis veronensis | 6 | |
| Natrix natrix | 5 | |
| Hierophis viridiflavus | 2 | |
| Aves indet. | 2 | |
| Arvicola italicus | 16 | |
| Microtus (Terricola) savii | 5 | |
| Microtus (Microtus) arvalis | 5 | |
| Myodes glareolus | 3 | |
| Apodemus "gr. sylvaticus-flavicollis" | 3 | |
| Glis glis | 1 | |
| Lepus sp. | 18 | |
| Canis lupus (gray wolf) | 2 | 43.0 kg |
| Mustela nivalis (least weasel) | 1 | 61.7 g |
| Meles meles (European badger) | 1 | 11.0 kg |
| Crocuta sp. | 17 | |
| "Crocuta crocuta": possibly C. spelaea | ||
| Equus ferus (wild horse) | 194 | |
| †Stephanorhinus hemitoechus (narrow-nosed rhinoceros) | 1 | |
| Sus scrofa (pig) | 2 | |
| Cervidae indet. | 9 | |
| Capreolus capreolus (roe deer) | 1 | |
| Cervus elaphus (red deer) | 114 | |
| Dama dama (European fallow deer) | 23 | |
| †Bos primigenius (aurochs) | 273 | |