Sample name: Charlie Lake Cave (Zone IV)

Sample aka: HbRf 39

Reference: J. C. Driver. 1988. Late Pleistocene and Holocene vertebrates and palaeoenvironments from Charlie Lake Cave, northeast British Columbia. Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences 25:1545-1553 [ER 3152]

Lithology: sandstone

Habitat comments: "the gully contains at least 4 m of fine sediments and sandstone fragments from which artifacts and fauna have been recovered" so this is not a cave fauna per se
Zone IV "is a relatively homogeneous, thick, highly organic sediment. Granulometric characteristics are similar to those of IIb" and II is dominated by sands, so this is presumably a sandstone
"The general paucity of artifacts argues for very brief periods of human use" so "most of the fauna was not deposited as a result of human use" and the assemblage includes species that "certainly lived and died at the site", were "deposited as dismembered prey items", and "were deposited in owl pellets"
no details are given about the artifacts and Fladmark et al. (1988) detail a small lithic assemblage entirely from Zone IIa, so it is possible that none are present in this zone

Life forms: bats, carnivores, rodents, ungulates, other small mammals, birds, snakes, frogs, fishes

Sampling methods: quarry, screenwash

Sample size: 3903 specimens

Sampled by: K. R. Fladmark

Years: 1983

Net or trap nights: 0

Basal area status: not applicable

Sampling comments: "All deposits were screened through a 3 mm mesh"

Sample no: 3448

Contributor no: John Alroy

Enterer: John Alroy

Created: 2019-09-02 10:33:43

Modified: 2023-04-03 08:48:56