Lynford Quarry
Basic information
Sample name: Lynford Quarry
Reference: D. C. Schreve. 2006. The taphonomy of a Middle Devensian (MIS 3) vertebrate assemblage from Lynford, Norfolk, UK, and its implications for Middle Palaeolithic subsistence strategies. Journal of Quaternary Science 21(5):543-556 [ER 3090]
Geography
Country: United Kingdom
Coordinate: 52.51° N, 0.66° E
Basis of coordinate: based on nearby landmark
Geography comments: "approximately 2 km north-east of the village of Mundford, to the south of the River Wissey" (coordinate based on Mundford)
two radiocarbon dates are too old to be reliable, so the age estimate is based on OSL dates of "64 000 +/- 5000 and 67 000 +/- 5000 yr BP" and the fauna is assigned to the Middle Palaeolithic and MIS 3
two radiocarbon dates are too old to be reliable, so the age estimate is based on OSL dates of "64 000 +/- 5000 and 67 000 +/- 5000 yr BP" and the fauna is assigned to the Middle Palaeolithic and MIS 3
Climate and habitat
Lithology: sandstone
Taphonomic context: fluvial deposit, human accumulation, tools
Habitat comments: an open air site; there is a "rich lithic assemblage", humans "contributed in some way to the faunal accumulation", and "this is not predominantly a carnivore-derived accumulation"
"The principle source of the fossils" was "a dark brown-black organic sand... and a black organic sand" from a palaeochannel
"The principle source of the fossils" was "a dark brown-black organic sand... and a black organic sand" from a palaeochannel
Methods
Life forms: carnivores, ungulates
Sampling methods: quarry
Sample size: 169
Years: 2002
Sampling comments: there was "Bulk sampling" for microvertebrates, but counts are only given for the megafauna
Metadata
Sample: 3368
Contributor: John Alroy
Enterer: John Alroy
Created: 2019-08-27 11:16:42
Modified: 2019-08-27 11:16:42
Abundance distribution
9 species
2 singletons
total count 169
Fisher's α: 2.030
geometric series k: 0.5859
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.6907
Shannon's H: 1.4672
Good's u: 0.9882
Register
| Canis lupus | 6 | 44 kg carnivore |
| Vulpes cf. vulpes | 1 | 5.3 kg carnivore-insectivore |
| Ursus arctos | 8 | 156 kg frugivore-carnivore |
| Crocuta crocuta | 1 | 66 kg carnivore |
| Mammuthus primigenius | 57 | |
| Equus ferus | 6 | |
| Coelodonta antiquitatis | 14 | |
| Rangifer tarandus | 72 | 105 kg |
| may include an additional 6 indeterminate cervids | ||
| Bison priscus | 4 | |