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Cave-earth and Breccia
Epoch: Late Pleistocene; Biozone: Gough's Cave MAZ; MIS: 2
Site: 23; Horizon: 23
Fluvial silt and fine gravel up to 4.3 m thick filling the entrance to the cave. Most of the unit was excavated in "spits" (layers) that were 6 inches thick numbered consecutively from top to bottom. Upper Palaeolithic artefacts were recorded from spits 4 through 25.
Archaeology
Fauna
| Taxon |
Family |
Database source |
| Sorex araneus Linnaeus, 1758 |
Soricidae |
Price, 2003 |
| Chiroptera indet. |
Indet. |
Price, 2003 |
| Ochotona pusilla (Pallas, 1769) |
Ochotonidae |
Currant, 1986 |
| Lepus timidus Linnaeus, 1758 |
Leporidae |
Price, 2003 |
| Castor fiber Linnaeus, 1758 |
Castoridae |
Currant, 1986 |
| Lemmus lemmus (Linnaeus, 1758) |
Muridae |
Price, 2003 |
| Clethrionomys rufocanus (Sundevall, 1846) |
Cricetidae |
Price, 2003 |
| Microtus agrestis (Linnaeus, 1761) |
Muridae |
Price, 2003 |
| Microtus gregalis (Pallas, 1779) |
Muridae |
Price, 2003 |
| Arvicola terrestris (Linnaeus, 1758) |
Muridae |
Price, 2003 |
| Dicrostonyx torquatus (Pallas, 1778) |
Muridae |
Price, 2003 |
| Microtus oeconomus (Pallas, 1776) |
Muridae |
Price, 2003 |
| Lynx lynx (Linnaeus, 1758) |
Felidae |
Currant and Jacobi, 2001 |
| Vulpes vulpes (Linnaeus, 1758) |
Canidae |
Currant, 1986 |
| Alopex lagopus (Linnaeus, 1758) |
Canidae |
Currant, 1986 |
| Canis lupus Linnaeus, 1758 |
Canidae |
Currant, 1986 |
| Ursus arctos Linnaeus, 1758 |
Ursidae |
Currant, 1986 |
| Homo sapiens (fossil remains) Linnaeus, 1758 |
Hominidae |
Stringer, 2006 |
| Equus ferus Boddaert, 1785 |
Equidae |
Currant, 1986 |
| Cervus elaphus Linnaeus, 1758 |
Cervidae |
Currant, 1986 |
| Rangifer tarandus (Linnaeus, 1758) |
Cervidae |
Currant, 1986 |
| Saiga tatarica (Linnaeus, 1766) |
Bovidae |
Currant and Jacobi, 2001 |
| Bos primigenius Bojanus, 1827 |
Bovidae |
Currant, 1986 |
| Mammuthus primigenius (Blumenbach, 1799) |
Elephantidae |
Currant and Jacobi, 2001 |
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