The hunting of large mammals in the upper palaeolithic of southern Italy: A diachronic case study from Grotta del Romito

BB Vacca - Quaternary International, 2012 - Elsevier
The results of the study of faunal remains from the Upper Pleistocene levels of the cave site
of Grotta del Romito in Calabria, southern Italy, are presented in this work. The present study …

Hunter-gatherers between the Late Glacial and the beginning of the Holocene in northwestern Italy: Animal exploitation at Cividate Camuno (Valle Camonica …

F Bona, RP Keller - Quaternary International, 2024 - Elsevier
Abstract After the Last Glacial Maximum, after 20 Kya ago, in the Alpine area the
environmental and climatic conditions began to change, and humans returned to the valleys …

[HTML][HTML] Human-environment relationships during the Late Glacial-Early Holocene transition: some examples from Campania, Calabria and Sicily

F Martini, AC Colonese, Z Giuseppe… - Méditerranée …, 2009 - journals.openedition.org
An overview of faunistic records (ie of large mammals and molluscs) from some prehistoric
sites of the Tyrrhenian regions of Southern Italy and Sicily (Grotta del Mezzogiorno, Grotta …

Small Specialized Hunting Sites and Their Role in Epigravettian Subsistence Strategies: A Case Study in Northern Italy

M Peresani, R Duches, R Miol… - Palethnologie …, 2011 - journals.openedition.org
This case study focuses on the debate concerning “hunting camps”(“halte de chasse”).
Zooarchaeological, lithic and functional data lead us to interpret the Epigravettian site of …

Exploitation of faunal resources at Riparo Gaban (Trento, Italy) during the Late Mesolithic period: preliminary results of archaeozoological and taphonomical analysis

U THUN HOHENSTEIN, M Bertolini, I Valverde… - Preistoria Alpina, 2016 - sfera.unife.it
Riparo Gaban is a rockshelter located at about 270m asl, near Trento, in a narrow lateral
valley on the left bank of river Adige, Northern Italy. This site gives name to the so called …

The palaeoecological meaning of macromammal remains from archaeological sites exemplified by the case study of Grotta Paglicci (Upper Palaeolithic, southern Italy …

F Boschin, P Boscato, C Berto, J Crezzini… - Quaternary …, 2018 - cambridge.org
Bone accumulation in Palaeolithic archaeological sites is often the result of activities carried
out by hunter-gatherer groups. Cultural choices may have influenced prey representation in …

Bone and antler working at Grotta Paglicci (Rignano Garganico, Foggia, southern Italy)

V Borgia, F Boschin, A Ronchitelli - Quaternary International, 2016 - Elsevier
In this article we present evidence of the hard animal tissue exploitation at Paglicci Cave
(Rignano Garganico, Foggia, southern Italy). The analysis of the 104 bone and antler tools …

Ecology and subsistence strategies in the Eastern Italian Alps during the Middle Palaeolithic

I Fiore, M Gala, A Tagliacozzo - International Journal of …, 2004 - Wiley Online Library
Italy is very rich in Middle Palaeolithic sites, and the Veneto region ranges among those with
the best archaeozoological information. Most of the Middle Palaeolithic sites are located in …

Bovines, food resource and prey during middle and upper Palaeolithic in north-east Italy.! e case studies of Fumane cave and San Bernardino cave.

G Terlato, M Romandini, M Peresani - The Horse and the Bull In …, 2016 - sfera.unife.it
In northern Italy, Grotta di Fumane (VR) Grotta di San Bernardino Cave (VI) give us important
data for the interpretation of exploitation dynamics Pleistocene's large bovines, Bos …

Archaeozoological evidence of subsistence strategies during the Gravettian at Riparo Mochi (Balzi Rossi, Ventimiglia, Imperia-Italy)

A Tagliacozzo, F Zeppieri, I Fiore, E Spinapolice… - Quaternary …, 2012 - Elsevier
This paper presents the results of the archaeozoological and taphonomic study on a sample
of about 55,000 bone remains collected in the Gravettian occupation levels (Layer D) of …