Davide Visentin

La più antica occupazione tardoglaciale nelle Dolomiti Bellunesi: primi dati dal sito epigravettiano di Casera Staulanza (Val di Zoldo, BL)

The most ancient Late Glacial occupation of the Belluno Dolomites: first data from the open-air Epigravettian site of Casera Staulanza (Val di Zoldo, BL)

Novità sul Mesolitico dell’Italia settentrionale: gli ultimi cacciatori-raccoglitori di pianura e il caso-studio dell’area delle Sorgenti del Sile

Something new on the Mesolithic of Northern Italy: the last hunter-gatherers of the plain and the case-study of the river Sile spring area

Utilizzo dei sistemi GIS per la revisione di dati stratigrafici da depositi plurifase: il caso-studio di Riparo Tagliente (Stallavena di Grezzana, VR)

Application of GIS systems for the revision of stratigraphical data from multi-phase deposits: the case-study of Riparo Tagliente (Stallavena di Grezzana, VR)

Variabilità e modalità di confezione delle punte a dorso nel Tardoglaciale: i casi studi di Riparo Tagliente (VR, Italia) e Troubat (Hautes-Pyrénées, Francia)

Al fine di indagare le modalita di confezione delle punte a dorso nel Tardoglaciale, da un punto di vista diacronico e spaziale, si e scelto di analizzare il materiale di due siti, rispettivamente riferibili all’Epigravettiano recente e all’Aziliano: Riparo Tagliente (VR, Italia) e la grotta/riparo di Troubat (Hautes-Pyrenees, Francia).

Evaluating Mesolithic settlement patterns in mountain environments (Dolomites, Eastern Italian Alps): the role of research biases and locational strategies

The wealth of Mesolithic evidence in the Alpine environments makes it possible to attempt a reconstruction of highland settlement patterns based on the distribution of known sites. However, just how representative this site distribution is has not yet been fully tested and the impact of research biases on the spatial organisation of Mesolithic findspots is not clear. In order to tackle these issues the locational pattern of Mesolithic sites recorded in an upland area of the Venetian Dolomites (North-Eastern Italy) was analysed. Point pattern analysis was used to correlate site distribution with two sets of covariates mirroring research biases and prehistoric settlement preferences. Point-process models were created and compared using both standard Akaike and Bayesian Information Criteria. Results indicate that both factors equally influence the current site distribution. The low number of statistically significant variables - slope and land-use - suggests the existence of additional variables that were not considered. An additional model helped us explore the importance of alternative variables and provided new perspectives for future investigation of high-altitude Mesolithic landscapes, with particular attention to highland mobility.