High-resolution ecosystem changes pacing the millennial climate variability at the Middle to Upper Palaeolithic transition in NE-Italy

F Badino, R Pini, C Ravazzi, M Chytrý, P Bertuletti… - Scientific Reports, 2023 - nature.com
Observation of high-resolution terrestrial palaeoecological series can decipher relationships
between past climatic transitions, their effects on ecosystems and wildfire cyclicity. Here we …

[HTML][HTML] Ecological evaluation of the development of Neanderthal niche exploitation

AJ Trájer - Quaternary Science Reviews, 2023 - Elsevier
Understanding the ecological niche occupied by Neanderthals and their ancestors is at the
forefront of many Palaeolithic investigations. In this study, a complex characterization of the …

Neanderthals' hunting seasonality inferred from combined cementochronology, mesowear, and microwear analysis: case studies from the Alpine foreland in Italy

A Livraghi, F Rivals, W Rendu, M Peresani - … and Anthropological Sciences, 2022 - Springer
Herbivore teeth are a valuable source of information for inferring the hunting season of past
hunter-gatherers, the spatial–temporal organization of their activities, their socio-economic …

Middle and Upper Paleolithic occupations of Fumane Cave (Italy): a geoarchaeological investigation of the anthropogenic features

D Marcazzan, CE Miller, B Ligouis, R Duches… - Journal of …, 2022 - sfera.unife.it
Here we present the results of a microcontextual analysis of purported combustion features
recovered from Middle and Upper Paleolithic occupations at the cave site of Fumane, Italy …

Flexibility within Quina lithic production systems and tool-use in Northern Italy: implications on Neanderthal behavior and ecology during early MIS 4

D Delpiano, A Zupancich, S Bertola… - Archaeological and …, 2022 - Springer
Abstract The Quina Mousterian is one of the well-defined Middle Paleolithic techno-
complexes. Despite the pivotal research carried out in south-western France, the presence …

Quina on the edge. Insights from a Middle Palaeolithic lithic assemblage of Grotta di Fumane, Italy

M Peresani, L Bourguignon, D Delpiano… - Journal of Archaeological …, 2023 - Elsevier
Neanderthal behavior is a widely explored topic in Western Eurasia and is commonly driven
by reference studies on the lithic industries. Amongst the large variability expressed by this …

Palaeobotanical records from cave environments

JS Carrión, J Ochando, K Sniderman, D Festi - Review of Palaeobotany …, 2022 - Elsevier
Caves have been historically sources of literary and mythological inspiration, settings for
geographical, geological, and biological research and, undoubtedly, cornerstones for …

Deconstructing the δ15N Paleodietary Proxy: Implications of Culturally-Mediated Food Behavior for Trophic Position Reconstruction

KK Foecke - 2022 - search.proquest.com
Dietary strategies are often key drivers of biological evolution. Understanding past diet is
critical to understanding environment, behavior, and ecological relationships of both …

[引用][C] 5.5 A deliberate economic strategy or a purely “ecological” specialization?

A Livraghi - IDQP

[引用][C] 3.2 Dental wear analyses

DN Cave, SB Cave, FC RF - IDQP