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PLOS ONE | 2015

Palaeoloxodon and Human Interaction: Depositional Setting, Chronology and Archaeology at the Middle Pleistocene Ficoncella Site (Tarquinia, Italy)

Daniele Aureli; Antonio Contardi; Biagio Giaccio; Brian R. Jicha; Cristina Lemorini; Sergio Madonna; Donatella Magri; Federica Marano; Salvatore Milli; Valerio Modesti; Maria Rita Palombo; Roxane Rocca

The Ficoncella site in northern Latium (Italy) represents a unique opportunity to investigate the modalities of a short occupation in an alluvial setting during the Lower Palaeolithic. The small excavation area yielded a lithic assemblage, a carcass of Palaeoloxodon antiquus, and some other faunal remains. The main objectives of the study are to better characterize the depositional context where the Palaeoloxodon and the lithic assemblage occur, and to evaluate with greater precision the occupation dynamics. A 25 m-long well was drilled just above the top of the terrace of the Ficoncella site and faunal and lithic remains were analyzed with current and innovative techniques. The archaeological site contains floodplain deposits as it is located next to a small incised valley that feeds into a larger valley of the Mignone River. A tephra layer capping the site is 40Ar/39Ar dated to 441± 8 ka. Collectively, the geochronologic, tephrochronologic and geologic data, suggest the site was occupied during MIS 13. The new results should prompt further research at Ficoncella in order to improve our understanding of the dynamics of human settlement in Europe during the Early to Middle Pleistocene.


Sezione di Museologia Scientifica e Naturalistica | 2018

Le potenzialità del GIS nella ricostruzione delle strutture sociali e delle strategie economiche ed insediative degli accampamenti musteriani in Italia centro-meridionale

Vincenzo Spagnolo; Giulia Marciani; Simona Arrighi; Daniele Aureli; Paolo Boscato; Francesco Boschin; Giulia Capecchi; Jacopo Crezzini; Adriana Moroni; Stefano Ricci; Sem Scaramucci; Annamaria Ronchitelli

Lo studio mediante sistemi GIS del comportamento neandertaliano in Italia centro-meridionale e una delle linee di ricerca dell’U.R. di Preistoria e Antropologia (DSFTA) dell’Universita di Siena. Protocolli analitici multidisciplinari integrati sono attualmente adottati sui contesti stratigrafici di Grotta Grande e Riparo il Molare (San Giovanni a Piro, SA; Ronchitelli et al. 2011, Boscato et al. 2002), Riparo l’Oscurusciuto (Ginosa, TA; Marciani et al. 2016, Spagnolo et al. 2016) e Grotta dei Santi (Monte Argentario, GR; Spagnolo 2017). Le caratteristiche di tali siti offrono la possibilita di osservare i fenomeni insediativi in una prospettiva multi-scalare: dall’alta risoluzione temporale alla lettura diacronica dei processi storici, dall’intra-site alla scala geografica territoriale. Le strategie insediative dei cacciatori-raccoglitori neandertaliani sono argomento di un intenso dibattito scientifico che vede attivi, su vari livelli, studiosi afferenti a diverse discipline. Questo, oltre ad evidenziare la vastita della problematica, mostra altresi la necessita di adottare metodi di studio sempre piu integrati. La dimensione contestuale e multi-scalare della Spatial Archaeology diviene pertanto un ambiente ideale in cui realizzare l’integrazione dei risultati della Ricerca preistorica. A scala intra-site nel campione finora indagato e stato possibile cogliere diversi modi di gestione degli accampamenti. Questo, se da un lato potrebbe essere espressione di variabili genuinamente spaziali (es. superficie indagata rispetto all’accampamento), in taluni casi sembrerebbe piuttosto riflettere strategie insediative differenti (es. occupazioni brevi vs occupazioni protratte nel tempo). Il grado di “visibilita archeologica” delle aree di attivita e direttamente proporzionale alla risoluzione temporale dei contesti, per cui living floors e short palimpsests offrono letture molto piu chiare rispetto ai palinsesti lunghi. D’altro canto, la disponibilita di serie stratigrafiche articolate in diversi livelli di occupazione, spesso con un eccellente stato di conservazione, e un fattore-chiave per cogliere continuita e discontinuita dei modelli insediativi. Le fluttuazioni di tali cambiamenti, oltre ad esprimere forme di adattamento ai contesti ambientali locali, costituiscono una sorta di proxy delle strutture sociali e di uno dei silenziosi motori della Storia: il rapporto dialettico tra “memoria del gruppo” e “Longue duree”. A scala geografica territoriale, infine, le analisi spaziali, integrate con i parametri paleoambientali, i dati tecno-economici dei complessi litici e le composizioni tassonomiche degli insiemi faunistici, offrono un contributo alla definizione delle strategie di mobilita e alla ricostruzione dei “play ranges” dei gruppi di cacciatori-raccoglitori. GIS potentialities in reconstructing social structures and economic and settling strategies in Mousterian sites of Central-Southern Italy The study of Neandertal behaviour in Central-Southern Italy using GIS systems is one the research topics explored by the R.U. of Prehistory and Anthropology (DSFTA) of the University of Siena. Multidisciplinary and integrated analytic protocols have been applied in a number of stratigraphic contexts of Central-Southern Italy: Grotta Grande and Riparo del Molare (MIS 5; San Giovanni a Piro, SA; Ronchitelli et al. 2011, Boscato et al. 2002), Riparo l’Oscurusciuto (MIS 3; Ginosa, TA; Marciani et al. 2016, Spagnolo et al. 2016) and Grotta dei Santi (MIS 3; Monte Argentario, GR; Spagnolo 2017). These sites are particularly suitable for being observed under a multi-scale perspective: from the high-resolution diachronic reading of historical processes to the intra-site investigation at a territorial scale. Settling strategies of Neandertal hunter-gatherers are the pivot around which a lively scientific debate has developed among scholars of different disciplines, highlighting the magnitude of the problem in terms of involved research fields. As a consequence increasingly integrated methodologies of study are needed. Thus, the contextual multi-scale dimension of Spatial Archaeology is becoming the ideal “scenario” where the integration among single results of prehistoric research can occur. According to investigations carried out at an intra-site scale, the different organization of space in Neandertal camps of the examined sample is probably the expression of merely spatial variables (e.g. size of the investigated area), even if, sometimes, it seems to actually mirror real differences in settling strategies (e.g. brief vs. long occupations). As expected, the degree of “archaeological visibility” of the activity areas is directly proportional to how much the contexts under study lasted in time. Consequently, living floors and short-lived palimpsests can be obviously read more clearly than long-lasting palimpsests. Moreover, the availability of stratigraphic sequences with several occupational layers, often very well preserved, is a key-factor for detecting continuity and discontinuity of settlement patterns. Settlement fluctuations and changes, besides representing adaptations to local environmental contexts, work as proxies for social structures and for one of the “quiet motors” of history: dialectic relation between “group memory” and “ Longue duree ”. On a territorial geographical scale, spatial analyses, integrated by palaeo-environmental evidence and by techno-economic data from lithic assemblages and faunal associations contribute to the reconstruction of mobility strategies and of “ play ranges ” of hunter-gatherer groups.


Quaternary International | 2012

Straight-tusked elephants in the Middle Pleistocene of northern Latium: Preliminary report on the Ficoncella site (Tarquinia, central Italy)

Daniele Aureli; Antonio Contardi; Biagio Giaccio; Valerio Modesti; Maria Rita Palombo; Roberto Rozzi; Andrea Sposato; Flavia Trucco


Quaternary International | 2016

Mode 1 or mode 2? “Small tools” in the technical variability of the European Lower Palaeolithic: The site of Ficoncella (Tarquinia, Lazio, central Italy)

Daniele Aureli; Roxane Rocca; Cristina Lemorini; Valerio Modesti; Sem Scaramucci; Salvatore Milli; Biagio Giaccio; Federica Marano; Maria Rita Palombo; Antonio Contardi


Ethnobiology Letters | 2015

Using 3D Microscopy to Analyze Experimental Cut Marks on Animal Bones Produced with Different Stone Tools

Erika Moretti; Simona Arrighi; Francesco Boschin; Jacopo Crezzini; Daniele Aureli; Annamaria Ronchitelli


Quaternary Science Reviews | 2016

A MIS 15-MIS 12 record of environmental changes and Lower Palaeolithic occupation from Valle Giumentina, central Italy

Valentina Villa; Alison Pereira; Christine Chaussé; Sébastien Nomade; Biagio Giaccio; Nicole Limondin-Lozouet; Fabio Fusco; Eleonora Regattieri; Jean-Philippe Degeai; Vincent Robert; Catherine Kuzucuoğlu; Giovanni Boschian; Silvano Agostini; Daniele Aureli; Marina Pagli; Jean-Jacques Bahain; Elisa Nicoud


Quaternary International | 2016

Preliminary data from Valle Giumentina Pleistocene site (Abruzzo, Central Italy): A new approach to a Clactonian and Acheulian sequence

Elisa Nicoud; Daniele Aureli; Marina Pagli; Valentina Villa; Christine Chaussé; Silvano Agostini; Jean-Jacques Bahain; Giovanni Boschian; Jean-Philippe Degeai; Fabio Fusco; Biagio Giaccio; Marion Hernandez; Catherine Kuzucuoğlu; Christelle Lahaye; Cristina Lemorini; Nicole Limondin-Lozouet; Paul Mazza; Norbert Mercier; Sébastien Nomade; Alison Pereira; Vincent Robert; Maria Adelaide Rossi; Clément Virmoux; Andrea Zupancich


Quaternary Science Reviews | 2017

Middle Pleistocene molluscan fauna from the Valle Giumentina (Abruzzo, Central Italy): Palaeoenvironmental, biostratigraphical and biogeographical implications

Nicole Limondin-Lozouet; Valentina Villa; Alison Pereira; Sébastien Nomade; Jean-Jacques Bahain; Emmanuelle Stoetzel; Daniele Aureli; Elisa Nicoud


Quaternary International | 2016

European Acheuleans: Critical perspectives from the East

Roxane Rocca; Claudia Abruzzese; Daniele Aureli


Mélanges de l'École française de Rome. Antiquité | 2015

Comportements techniques au Pléistocène moyen en Italie: Nouvelles recherches sur l'industrie lithique et le site de Valle Giumentina (Abruzzes)

Elisa Nicoud; Daniele Aureli; Marina Pagli

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Elisa Nicoud

École Normale Supérieure

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Valentina Villa

École Normale Supérieure

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Christine Chaussé

Centre national de la recherche scientifique

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Jean-Philippe Degeai

Centre national de la recherche scientifique

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Alison Pereira

École Normale Supérieure

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Catherine Kuzucuoğlu

Centre national de la recherche scientifique

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