Palaeolithic Italy: Advanced Studies on Early Human Adaptations in the Apennine Peninsula

432 Pages·2018·15.561 MB·English

by  Valentina Borgia, Emanuela Cristiani (eds.)

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The picture of the Palaeolithic adaptations in the Italian Peninsula
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regional hotspots in central and western Europe, as a result of historical
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research bias preventing the application of new research methodologies.
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behavioural complexity, the dispersal of Anatomically Modern Humans
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understanding the evolutionary development of various hominin species
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that inhabited the continent in the Late Pleistocene. In particular the
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The edited volume “Palaeolithic Italy” aims to contribute to our better
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understanding of the previous, still open, research questions. This will
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be achieved by presenting the latest advances in Palaeolithic research in
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cutting-edge techniques when studying numerous collections of materials
from both old and new excavations as well as the latest results of field
research in the country. The volume is intended for the international
academia, representing a key reference for all archaeologists and readers
interested in Early Prehistory of the Mediterranean region.
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PALAEOLITHIC ITALY
Sidestone Press

PALAEOLITHIC ITALY
ADVANCED STUDIES ON EARLY HUMAN ADAPTATIONS IN
THE APENNINE PENINSULA
edited by
Valentina Borgia &
Emanuela Cristiani
© 2018 Individual authors
Published by Sidestone Press, Leiden
www.sidestone.com
Imprint: Sidestone Press Academics
Lay-out & cover design: Sidestone Press
Photograph cover: image concept: Valentina Borgia and Emanuela Cristiani.
ISBN 978-90-8890-583-4 (softcover)
ISBN 978-90-8890-584-1 (hardcover)
ISBN 978-90-8890-585-8 (PDF e-book)
Contents
Foreword 9
Introduction 11
Valentina Borgia & Emanuela Cristiani
The Italian case in the context of the first European peopling 15
Marta Arzarello
Small Tools and the Palaeoloxodon - Homo interaction in the 27
Lower Palaeolithic: the contribution of use-wear analysis
C. Lemorini
Blade and bladelet reduction systems in the Italian Middle 37
Paleolithic. The case of Grotta del Cavallo, (Nardò – Lecce)
Leonardo Carmignani & Lucia Sarti
The Lower Tyrrhenian Versant: was it a techno-cultural area 59
during the Middle Palaeolithic? Evolution of the lithic industries
of the Riparo del Molare sequence in the frame of Neanderthal
peopling dynamics in Italy
Daniele Aureli & Annamaria Ronchitelli
Neanderthal mobility pattern and technological organization 95
in the Salento (Apulia, Italy)
Enza Elena Spinapolice
The socio-economic significance of Neanderthal shell 125
technology: a new perspective on Middle Palaeolithic
adaptation to intertidal zones from disregarded tools
Francesca Romagnoli
The Middle-Upper Paleolithic transition interpreted through 147
the Italian human remains
Stefano Benazzi
From Neanderthals to Anatomically Modern Humans in 161
Liguria (Italy): the current state of knowledge
Fabio Negrino & Julien Riel-Salvatore
Human exploitation of avifauna during the Italian Middle and 183
Upper Paleolithic
Monica Gala Ivana Fiore & Antonio Tagliacozzo
Lithic raw material circulation and settlement dynamics in the 219
Upper Palaeolithic of the Venetian Prealps (NE Italy). A key-role
for palaeoclimatic and landscape changes across the LGM?
Stefano Bertola, Federica Fontana & Davide Visentin
Laminar tools with sinuous profile from Grotta Continenza 247
(Trasacco – AQ, Italy): a specialized production from the Late
Epigravettian levels
Marco Serradimigni
An overview of early Epigravettian techno-economic behavior 265
in northern and western Adriatic area
Emanuele Cancellieri
Re-colonising the Southern Alpine fringe: diachronic data on 287
the use of sheltered space in the Late Epigravettian site of
Riparo Tagliente (Verona, Italy)
Federica Fontana, Laura Falceri, Alessia Gajardo,
Stefano Bertola, Maria Giovanna Cremona, Fabio Cavulli, Antonio
Guerreschi & Davide Visentin
Epigravettian osseous technology from the eastern Alpine 311
region of Italy. The case of Riparo Dalmeri (Trentino)
E. Cristiani
New Insights into the Paleolithic Chronology and Funerary 335
Ritual of Caverna delle Arene Candide
Julien Riel-Salvatore, Claudine Gravel-Miguel,
Roberto Maggi, Gabriele Martino, Stefano Rossi
& Vitale Stefano Sparacello
Changing mobility patterns at the Pleistocene-Holocene 357
transition: lower limb biomechanics of Italian Gravettian and
Mesolithic individuals
Vitale Stefano Sparacello, Sébastien Villotte,
Colin N. Shaw, Federica Fontana, Elisabetta Mottes,
Elisabetta Starnini, Giampaolo Dalmeri & Damiano Marchi
The role of aquatic resources in ‘Italian’ hunter-gatherer 397
subsistence and diets
Marcello A. Mannino & Michael P. Richards
Afterword: About Italian Prehistory 427

Participants in the workshop "Out of Italy, Advanced studies on the Italian Palaeolithic",
22-23 May 2015, Cambridge, McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research.