Sample name: Romain-la-Roche

Reference: C. Guérin, P. Paupe, J. Affolter, A. Argant, J. Argant, P. Auguste, J.-J. Bahain, S. Baillon, N. Boulbes, J. Detrey, C. Durlet, C. Falguères, P. Fernandez, P. Fosse, J.-B. Fourvel, J. Gayet, L. Gourichon, J. Jeannet, B. Labe, O. Le Gall, T. Malvesy, D. Motte, F. Rosselières, Q. Shao, and C. Vercoutère. 2010. Le gisement pléistocene moyen récent de Romain-la-Roche (Doubs, France): synthèse biostratigraphique et paléoécologique. Revue de Paléobiologie 29(2):881-885 [ER 3973]

Lithology: breccia

Taphonomic context: bird accumulation, cave, pitfall trap

Archaeology: stone tools

Habitat comments: "a natural trap where fall numerous large mammals, and where diverse small vertebrates were transported as preys of birds... Neanderthal Man seems to have entered sporadically the site and left in it some Mousterian artefacts but the accumulation of fossils in the swallowhole was not the result of any human agency"
the lithology is "gros blocs calcaires, de cailloutis et de fragments de calcite, tous emballés dans une argile de décalcification jaune-rougeâtre, avec des bréchifications" (meaning a limestone breccia)
locales"
Mousterian

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

Sampling methods: quarry

Sample size: 10712 specimens

Years: 1980 - 1991

Net or trap nights: 0

Basal area status: not applicable

Sampling comments: "excavated between 1980 and 1991 by Patrick PAUPE and his team"
95 gastropod shells and three species of fishe are also present
coprolites assigned to Crocuta spelaea are also present

Sample no: 4384

Contributor no: John Alroy

Enterer: John Alroy

Created: 2023-12-02 17:08:35

Modified: 2023-12-02 07:06:30