Manot Cave (Area D, Biogenic Unit)
Basic information
Sample name: Manot Cave (Area D, Biogenic Unit)

Reference: M. Orbach and R. Yeshurun. 2019. The hunters or the hunters: Human and hyena prey choice divergence in the Late Pleistocene Levant. Journal of Human Evolution x:1-18 [ER 3071]
Geography
Country: Israel

Coordinate: 33° 2' N, 35° 12' E
Basis of coordinate: based on nearby landmark
Geography comments: "a large karstic cave located in Western Galilee"
coordinate based on Manot Cave
"early Upper Paleolithic... The stratigraphic sequence of the cave covers the EUP, 46-33 thousand years cal. BP" but no directly relevant dates are mentioned, so this is apparently based on correlation
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Climate and habitat
Substrate: ground surface
Lithology: limestone
Taphonomic context: carnivore accumulation, cave
Habitat comments: "karstic... the bone assemblage was created mainly by hyenas"
Methods
Life forms: carnivores, ungulates, other small mammals, birds, lizards, snakes, turtles
Sampling methods: quarry
Sample size: 494
Years: 2011, 2012, 2015
Sampling comments: "The cave was discovered in 2008 and has been excavated since 2010" and selected samples were collected in 2011, 2012, and 2015
Metadata
Sample: 3344
Contributor: John Alroy
Enterer: John Alroy
Created: 2019-08-25 16:39:50
Modified: 2019-08-25 20:47:27
Abundance distribution
18 species
5 singletons
total count 494
Fisher's α: 3.665
geometric series k: 0.7456
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.7970
Shannon's H: 1.9456
Good's u: 0.9899
⇒ extrapolate richness estimates
Register
Bos primigenius11
Dama mesopotamica147
Cervus elaphus10
Sus scrofa354 kg herbivore
Capra sp.1
Equus sp.9
Gazella gazella146
Capreolus capreolus422 kg browser
Crocuta crocuta1466 kg carnivore
Panthera leo1 carnivore
Felis silvestris34.5 kg carnivore
"Felis sylvestris"
Canis lupus144 kg carnivore
Vulpes vulpes105.3 kg carnivore-insectivore
Lepus capensis1
Testudo graeca37
Ophisaurus apodus1
Serpentes indet.49
Aves indet.46
three size classes