Payre (ensemble F)
Basic information
Sample name: Payre (ensemble F)

Reference: C. Daujeard, E. J. Daschek, M. Patou-Mathis, and M. H. Moncel. 2018. Les néandertaliens de Payre (Ardèche, France) ont-ils chassé le rhinocéros?. Quaternaire 29(3):217-231 [ER 3976]
Geography
Country: France



Coordinate: 44° 53' N, 4° 51' E
Coordinate basis: based on nearby landmark

Time interval: Middle Pleistocene

Unit number: 2

Unit order: below to above

Max Ma: 0.243

Min Ma: 0.191

Age basis: zone

Geography comments: elevation 60 m (Moncel and Condemi 2007, Anthropologie)
shown on map by Moncel and Condemi (2007) as immediately to the southwest of Soyons (basis of coordinate), which houses a museum for the archaeological site
MIS 7 based on "TL, ESR & U/Th" (dates not given) according to Moncel and Condemi (2007)

Environment
Lithology: breccia

Taphonomic context: cave,human accumulation

Archaeology: stone tools

Habitat comments: "a grey sediment and beds of rubble and clay with the same features [as in level G], formed secondarily in the cave. It displays human occupations alternating with numerous animal ones, especially Ursus spelaeus"
"the main accumulator agent" throughout the section was humans and there are "more or less deep grooves, flake scars and notches" on "numerous isolated teeth" and other bones from this level that are interpreted as "Confidently of anthropic origin"
lithic assemblages are present throughout the section, so presumably are found here

Methods
Life forms: carnivores,primates,ungulates

Sampling methods: quarry

Sample size: 2582 specimens

Years: 1990 - 2002

Metadata
Sample number: 4388

Contributor: John Alroy

Enterer: John Alroy

Created: 2023-12-03 21:02:14

Modified: 2023-12-03 10:02:14

Abundance distribution
26 species
3 singletons
total count 2582
geometric series index: 34.6
Fisher's α: 4.021
geometric series k: 0.7590
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.7336
Shannon's H: 1.7070
Good's u: 0.9988
Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts.
Register
Palaeoloxodon antiquus33
Stephanorhinus hemitoechus7
Stephanorhinus kirchbergensis14
plus 208 Stephanorhinus sp.
Equus sp.311
Bos primigenius6
Bison sp.60
plus 240 Bos or Bison
Hemitragus bonali117
Rupicapra rupicapra727 kg browser-grazer
Cervus elaphus821142 kg browser-grazer
Megaloceros giganteus4
Dama dama2262 kg
Capreolus capreolus10622 kg browser
Sus scrofa1254 kg herbivore
Ursus spelaeus986
Ursus arctos1156 kg frugivore-carnivore
Cuon sp.1
Canis lupus3743 kg carnivore
Vulpes vulpes75.3 kg carnivore-insectivore
Panthera (Leo) spelaea4
Panthera pardus233 kg carnivore
Lynx pardinus spelaea111 kg
"Lynx spelaea"
Felis silvestris34.5 kg carnivore
Crocuta spelaea12
Meles meles310 kg invertivore-herbivore
Martes martes21.5 kg carnivore-frugivore
Homo neanderthalensis3
see Moncel and Condemi (2007)