Ain Boucherit (Lower)
Basic information
Sample name: Ain Boucherit (Lower)

Sample aka: AB-Lw

Reference: I. Cáceres, R. Chelli Cheheb, J. van der Made, Z. Harichane, and K. Boulaghraief. 2023. Assessing the subsistence strategies of the earliest North African inhabitants: evidence from the Early Pleistocene site of Ain Boucherit (Algeria). Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences 15(87):1-28 [ER 3933]
Geography
Country: Algeria

Coordinate: 36.205601° N, 5.6527° E
Latlng basis: stated in text

Formation: Ain Boucherit

Time interval: Early Pleistocene

Section: Ain Boucherit

Unit number: 1

Unit order: below to above

Ma: 2.44

Age basis: paleomag

Geography comments: dating was based on "a combination" of magnetostratigraphy, ESR, and biochronology, but primarily on the former

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Environment
Lithology: siltstone

Taphonomic context: overbank deposit, paleosol, human accumulation

Archaeology: stone tools

Habitat comments: the matrix is 83% silt, 14% fine sand, and 2% clay and the environment is interpreted as an "open-air site" in a "suspension-loaded" floodplain
there are cutmarks and percussion marks plus toothmarks and other carnivore damage on the bones, and "butchery" is inferred while carnivore accumulation per se is not
there are 17 stone tools

Methods
Life forms: carnivores, ungulates, turtles

Sampling methods: quarry

Sample size: 75 specimens

Net or trap nights: 0

Basal area status: not applicable

Sampling comments: there were "limited trench excavations"

Metadata
Sample no: 4336

Contributor no: John Alroy

Enterer: John Alroy

Modifier no: John Alroy

Created: 2023-08-11 12:10:31

Modified: 2024-11-15 11:36:01

Abundance distribution
Each square represents a species. Square sizes are proportional to counts. Values are logged.
Statistics
14 species
6 singletons
total count 75
geometric series index: 32.3
Fisher's α: 5.075
geometric series k: 0.8006
Hurlbert's PIE: 0.8434
Shannon's H: 2.1044
Good's u: 0.9211
Register
†Anancus osiris 1
†Mammuthus africanavus (mammoth)1
†Ceratotherium mauritanicum (rhinoceros)1
†Eurygnathohippus libycum 2
†Equus numidicus (horse)10
also 5 indeterminate Equus
Hippopotamus sp. 1
†Sivatherium maurusium (sivathere)1
Pelorovis sp. 1
questionably referred
Parmularius sp. 2
compared to eulmensis and altidens
†Connochaetes tournoueri (bovid)11
†Parantidorcas latifrons 15
†Gazella ? setifensis (gazelle)18
Canis sp. 2
"Canis primaevus": certainly wrong because this is an old synonym of Canis dirus
Mauremys leprosa 9