Luca Bellucci
Sapienza University of Rome
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Geodiversitas | 2011
Carmelo Petronio; Luca Bellucci; Edoardo Martiinetto; Luca Pandolfi; Leonardo Salari
ABSTRACT Paleoenvironmental variations that occurred in Italy from the Middle Pliocene to the Late Pleistocene are described. The number of large mammal species seems increased moderately, especially from the Galerian to the Late Aurelian biochronological units. On the contrary, the paleobotanical data show a decrease of the forest cover from the Middle Pliocene to the late Early Pleistocene and an increase of lands occupied by prairies and steppes. This change is also supported by the appearance of hypsodont taxa among mammals. The distribution of mammal faunas between the Adriatic and Tyrrhenian sides of Central Italy, during the Middle and Late Pleistocene, seems not to be influenced by climatic and environment differences. When the Adriatic data are more complete, it is possible, in fact, to observe a trend that is fairly close to that of the Tyrrhenian. The majority of megaherbivorous taxa has an Asian origin, and it can be hypothesized that in the interglacial phases, the Tosco-Emilian Apennines allowed the taxa coming from the northeast to enter and spread out into the more diversified Tyrrhenian side, whereas during the glacial periods the narrow Ligurian corridor were followed. This research supports the role of the Italian Peninsula as a refuge area for continental Europe; this particular condition permits the Italian mammal faunas to develop endemic lineage (such as Elephas antiquus italicus Osborn, 1931, Cervus elaphus rianensis Leonardi & Petronio, 1974, C. e. aretinus Azzaroli, 1947, etc.). At last, biodiversity sharply dropped during the last 30 000 years, probably due to the anthropic activities and the strong climatic cooling of the last pleniglacial.
Studies in Conservation | 2018
Antonio Profico; Luca Bellucci; Costantino Buzi; Fabio Di Vincenzo; Ileana Micarelli; Flavia Strani; Mary Anne Tafuri; Giorgio Manzi
ABSTRACT The remains that typically compose the human fossil record often bear cracks, damage, and deformations. The recent rapid development of ‘virtual anthropology’ has provided innovative tools to manage, study, and preserve cultural and natural heritage. Such tools include computerized tomography (CT), laser scanning, photogrammetry, 3D imaging, and rapid prototyping. These approaches can contribute to any archaeological context from the discovery of artefacts to research, preservation, and dissemination. 3D imaging techniques can substitute physical intervention with a virtual protocol to restore the original shape of a fossil specimen. In a similar way, digital morphological information can be recovered using data preserved even on a fragment through the use of 3D comparative samples. Here we present an extended and updated review of the most innovative protocols in virtual anthropology, also applicable in other fields such as natural history and cultural heritage studies, through the description of recent cast studies.
Quaternary International | 2012
Marco Pavia; Marta Zunino; Mauro Coltorti; Chiara Angelone; Marta Arzarello; Cristina Bagnus; Luca Bellucci; Simone Colombero; Federica Marcolini; Carlo Peretto; Carmelo Petronio; Mauro Petrucci; Pierluigi Pieruccini; Raffaele Sardella; Evdokia Tema; Boris Villier; Giulio Pavia
Quaternary International | 2012
Luca Bellucci; Ilaria Mazzini; Giancarlo Scardia; Luciano Bruni; Fabio Parenti; Aldo Giacomo Segre; Eugenia Segre Naldini; Raffaele Sardella
Quaternary Science Reviews | 2014
Luca Bellucci; F. Bona; P. Corrado; D. Magri; I. Mazzini; Fabio Parenti; Giancarlo Scardia; Raffaele Sardella
Quaternary International | 2015
Luca Bellucci; Raffaele Sardella; Lorenzo Rook
Quaternary International | 2012
Bienvenido Martínez-Navarro; Raffaele Sardella; Lorenzo Rook; Luca Bellucci; Sergio Ros-Montoya
Quaternary Science Reviews | 2015
Flavia Strani; Daniel DeMiguel; Raffaele Sardella; Luca Bellucci
Quaternary International | 2015
Luca Bellucci; Raffaele Sardella
Palaeontographica Abteilung A-palaozoologie-stratigraphie | 2013
Carmelo Petronio; Luca Bellucci; Giuseppe Di Stefano