Gornovo
Basic information
Sample name: Gornovo

Reference: G. Danukalova, R. Kurmanov, A. Yakovlev, E. Osipova, E. Zinovyev, and K. Arslanov. 2016. Palaeoenvironment of the Middle and Upper Neopleistocene at the Gornovo Upper Palaeolithic site (Southern Ural foreland, Russia). Quaternary International 420:24-46 [ER 3106]
Geography
Country: Russia

Coordinate: 55° 54' 28" N, 56° 53' 48" E
Latlng basis: stated in text

Time interval: Late Pleistocene

Max Ma: 0.0297

Min Ma: 0.02695

Age basis: radiocarbon (uncalibrated)

Geography comments: "on the left bank of the Belaya River, 1 km upstream from the village of Gornovo" at an elevation between 160 and 200 m
list combines "Gornovo II and IIa, layers 2 and 3"
there are four uncalibrated dates on layer 2 ranging from 26, 950 +/- 560 to 29, 700 +/- 1250 BP, plus a date on Bison tooth of > 33, 670 BP for the underlying layer 3

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Environment
Lithology: siltstone

Taphonomic context: lake deposit

Archaeology: stone tools

Habitat comments: "floodplain facies of the alluvial deposits which consist of 3) Dark bluish-grey lacustrine silty loam with molluscs shells and mammals remains (thickness 2 m); 2) Bluish-grey thin-bedded silty loam with stumps and roots of Picea sp... Greyish-brown clayey silt occur in erosional pockets between layers 2 and 3 (Gornovo IIa). Eight stone Upper Palaeolithic implements and bone remains of large and the small mammals were collected from these sediments"

Methods
Life forms: rodents, ungulates, other small mammals

Sampling methods: quarry, screenwash

Sample size: 375 specimens

Years: 1975, 1983

Net or trap nights: 0

Basal area status: not applicable

Sampling comments: excavated samples were washed "using sieves with a mesh size of 0.5-1.0 mm"
no carnivores are present

Metadata
Sample no: 3392

Contributor no: John Alroy

Enterer: John Alroy

Modifier no: John Alroy

Created: 2019-08-29 12:00:21

Modified: 2024-11-15 11:21:20

Abundance distribution
Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts. Values are logged.
Statistics
19 species
6 singletons
total count 375
geometric series index: 35.8
Fisher's α: 4.225
geometric series k: 0.7559
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.7649
Shannon's H: 1.8593
Good's u: 0.9841
Register
Camelus sp. 1
†Megaloceros giganteus (Irish elk)2
Alces alces (moose)1421.0 kg
†Bos primigenius (aurochs)21
†Bison priscus (bison)73
subspecies gigas and mediator were identified in 1975
Ovis ammon (argali)1
Equus cf. hemionus (onager)1
Equus ferus (wild horse)16
"Equus caballus fossilis": not domesticated
Ochotona pusilla 13
Spermophilus sp. 1
Ellobius talpinus 2
Allocricetulus eversmanni 1
Myodes rufocanus 2
"Clethrionomys rufocanus"
Myodes rutilus 2
"Clethrionomys rutilus"; also 14 Myodes sp. "Clethrionomys ex gr. rutilus-glareolus"
Lagurus lagurus 154
Eolagurus luteus 2
Arvicola amphibius 7
"Arvicola terrestris"
Stenocranius gregalis 28
"Microtus gregalis"
Alexandromys oeconomus 47
"Microtus oeconomus"