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1. Middle Pleistocene paleoclimate and paleoenvironment of central Italy and their relationship with hominin migrations and evolution.

Author

Zanazzi, Alessandro, Fletcher, Andrew, Peretto, Carlo, and Thun Hohenstein, Ursula

Subjects
*PALEOCLIMATOLOGY, *PLEISTOCENE Epoch, *PALEONTOLOGICAL excavations, *SEASONAL temperature variations, *DENTAL enamel, *OXYGEN isotopes, *CARBON isotopes, *FOREST canopy gaps
Abstract

To investigate the paleoclimate and paleoenvironment of central Italy during the Middle Pleistocene, we analyzed the carbon and oxygen stable isotope composition of the carbonate component of sequential enamel samples from twenty-four rhinoceros (Stephanorhinus spp.) teeth. The samples come from two key archeological and paleontological sites located in the Molise region: Isernia La Pineta (ILP; ∼600 ka) and Guado San Nicola (GSN; ∼400 ka). Carbon isotope ratios of enamel from both ILP and GSN indicate feeding in a pure C 3 ecosystem that consisted predominantly of woodlands and/or mesic C 3 grasslands with the possible sparse presence of closed canopy forests at or near ILP ∼600 ka. The average (± 1 σ) enamel δ13C for ILP (−13.6 ± 0.6‰) is lower than that for GSN (−12.1 ± 0.4‰), suggesting higher mean annual precipitation and lesser aridity ∼600 vs. ∼400 ka. Average intra-tooth variability in enamel δ13C from both sites is low (∼1‰), likely indicating seasonally uniform diets, plant carbon isotope compositions, and precipitation amounts. However, the low intra-tooth variability in enamel δ13C may also reflect amplitude attenuation of the isotopic signal of the plants into tooth enamel. With respect to oxygen isotopes, the average (± 1 σ) enamel δ18O for ILP (24.2 ± 0.7‰) is slightly lower than that for GSN (25.0 ± 0.7‰), likely reflecting the higher elevation of ILP as well as lesser aridity and/or slightly lower mean annual temperature in the region ∼600 vs. ∼400 ka. The δ18O values of meteoric precipitation (∼-7‰) calculated from enamel compositions are indistinguishable from the modern values, suggesting that mean annual temperatures were broadly similar to today (∼13°C). Both sites exhibit a moderate average intra-tooth variability in enamel δ18O (∼2‰), likely indicating a temperature seasonality similar or slightly decreased relative to today. The temperate climate and the increase in aridity that occurred sometime between ∼600 and ∼400 ka were potentially important factors for the human colonization of the Italian peninsula and for the cultural and behavioral evolution of the early hominins during the Middle Pleistocene. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Published
2022
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2. Between “vintage” and “avant-guard”, the Lower Palaeolithic settlements in Molise region (Italy).

Author

Arnaud, Julie, Arzarello, Marta, Lembo, Giuseppe, Muttillo, Brunella, Peretto, Carlo, and Rufo, Ettore

Subjects
*PALEOLITHIC Period, *SOCIAL settlements, *MOUSTERIAN culture, *DEBATE, *MANNERS & customs
Abstract

In the last decades, debates on the origin, timing and spread of the Levallois method and its relation with the end of the Acheulean and transition to the Middle Palaeolithic have intensified, gaining increased importance on the issue of reading into archaeological evidence throughout Europe. There is another significant issue in current debates about the spread of typical Acheulean tools and technologies, which is the subject of numerous scientific interpretations. In the Italian peninsula the spatial and chronological fragmentation of archaeological evidence and the lack of sites featuring good chronostratigraphic context constitute a serious limitation to both establishing a reliable chronological framework and outlining the “evolution” of Middle Pleistocene lithic industries. In this article, we examine the contributions on the discussion of two Lower Palaeolithic sites located in Central-Southern Italy (Isernia La Pineta and Guado San Nicola), which hint both the “tardive” arrival of handaxe shaping, and the early appearance of the Levallois method. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Published
2017
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3. The Middle Pleistocene site of Guado San Nicola (Monteroduni, Central Italy) on the Lower/Middle Palaeolithic transition.

Author

Peretto, Carlo, Arzarello, Marta, Bahain, Jean-Jacques, Boulbes, Nicolas, Dolo, Jean-Michel, Douville, Eric, Falguères, Christophe, Frank, Norbert, Garcia, Tristan, Lembo, Giuseppe, Moigne, Anne-Marie, Muttillo, Brunella, Nomade, Sébastien, Pereira, Alison, Rufo, Maria Angela, Sala, Benedetto, Shao, Qingfeng, Thun Hohenstein, Ursula, Tessari, Umberto, and Turrini, Maria Chiara

Subjects
*PLEISTOCENE Epoch, *PALEOLITHIC Period, *ANTIQUITIES, *ARCHAEOLOGICAL excavations
Abstract

The archaeological site of Guado San Nicola (Monteroduni, Central Italy), under excavation since 2008, is located in the Upper Volturno Valley, near the top of a fluvial terrace attributed to the Middle Pleistocene. Several anthropic levels have been recognized within a stratigraphic sequence of more than two meters in thickness, characterized by alternating gravelly and sandy fluvial layers rich in pyroclastic materials, attributable to the end of MIS 11–beginning of MIS 10, according to the obtained radiometric dates ( 40 Ar/ 39 Ar and ESR/U-series). In this paper we discuss the chrono-stratigraphic record, the paleontological and zooarchaeological data and we provide a detailed techno-economic analysis of the lithic industry, characterized by the coexistence of handaxes and Levallois debitage. The site of Guado San Nicola represents the oldest evidence of the emergence of prepared-core technologies in the Italian Peninsula, adding new data to the debate on the Lower/Middle Palaeolithic transition in Western Europe. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Published
2016
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4. Between 'vintage' and 'avant-guard', the Lower Palaeolithic settlements in Molise region (Italy)

Author

Julie Arnaud, Carlo Peretto, Ettore Rufo, Giuseppe Lembo, Marta Arzarello, and Brunella Muttillo

Subjects
Vintage, 010506 paleontology, Acheulean, Guado San Nicola, Isernia La Pineta, Italian Peninsula, Levallois, Lower Palaeolithic, 060101 anthropology, geography.geographical_feature_category, Pleistocene, Socio-culturale, Italian Peninsula, Levallois, 06 humanities and the arts, 01 natural sciences, Archaeology, Isernia La Pineta, Archaeological evidence, Geography, Peninsula, Human settlement, Acheulean, Guado San Nicola, Lower Palaeolithic, 0601 history and archaeology, 0105 earth and related environmental sciences, Earth-Surface Processes
Abstract

In the last decades, debates on the origin, timing and spread of the Levallois method and its relation with the end of the Acheulean and transition to the Middle Palaeolithic have intensified, gaining increased importance on the issue of reading into archaeological evidence throughout Europe. There is another significant issue in current debates about the spread of typical Acheulean tools and technologies, which is the subject of numerous scientific interpretations. In the Italian peninsula the spatial and chronological fragmentation of archaeological evidence and the lack of sites featuring good chronostratigraphic context constitute a serious limitation to both establishing a reliable chronological framework and outlining the “evolution” of Middle Pleistocene lithic industries. In this article, we examine the contributions on the discussion of two Lower Palaeolithic sites located in Central-Southern Italy (Isernia La Pineta and Guado San Nicola), which hint both the “tardive” arrival of handaxe shaping, and the early appearance of the Levallois method.

Published
2017

5. The Middle Pleistocene site of Guado San Nicola (Monteroduni, Central Italy) on the Lower/Middle Palaeolithic transition

Author

Norbert Frank, Carlo Peretto, Nicolas Boulbes, Maria Chiara Turrini, Benedetto Sala, Christophe Falguères, Carmela Vaccaro, Umberto Tessari, Brunella Muttillo, Alison Pereira, Giuseppe Lembo, Maria Angela Rufo, Eric Douville, Qingfeng Shao, Ursula Thun Hohenstein, Jean-Jacques Bahain, Sébastien Nomade, Marta Arzarello, Tristan Garcia, Jean Michel Dolo, Anne-Marie Moigne, Dipartimento di Studi Umanistici [Ferrare], Università degli Studi di Ferrara = University of Ferrara (UniFE), Histoire naturelle de l'Homme préhistorique (HNHP), Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (MNHN)-Université de Perpignan Via Domitia (UPVD)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Archéologie des Sociétés Méditerranéennes (ASM), Université Paul-Valéry - Montpellier 3 (UPVM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Ministère de la Culture (MC), Département de Chimie Moléculaire - Ingéniérie et Intéractions BioMoléculaires (DCM - I2BM), Département de Chimie Moléculaire (DCM), Institut de Chimie du CNRS (INC)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Grenoble Alpes [2016-2019] (UGA [2016-2019])-Institut de Chimie du CNRS (INC)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Grenoble Alpes [2016-2019] (UGA [2016-2019]), Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement [Gif-sur-Yvette] (LSCE), Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Paris-Saclay-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Géochrononologie Traceurs Archéométrie (GEOTRAC), Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Paris-Saclay-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Paris-Saclay-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Universität Heidelberg [Heidelberg] = Heidelberg University, Laboratoire National Henri Becquerel (LNHB), Département Métrologie Instrumentation & Information (DM2I), Laboratoire d'Intégration des Systèmes et des Technologies (LIST (CEA)), Direction de Recherche Technologique (CEA) (DRT (CEA)), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Direction de Recherche Technologique (CEA) (DRT (CEA)), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris-Saclay-Laboratoire d'Intégration des Systèmes et des Technologies (LIST (CEA)), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris-Saclay-Département d'instrumentation Numérique (DIN (CEA-LIST)), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA), Paléocéanographie (PALEOCEAN), Ecole française de Rome (EFR), Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (MNHN), Nanjing Normal University (NNU), Università di Ferrara, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Paul-Valéry - Montpellier 3 (UM3)-Ministère de la Culture et de la Communication (MCC), Université Joseph Fourier - Grenoble 1 (UJF)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA)-Université Joseph Fourier - Grenoble 1 (UJF)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA), Université Paris-Saclay-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Université Paris-Saclay-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Paris-Saclay-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Les hominidés au quaternaire : milieux et comportements (HQMC), Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (MNHN)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Universität Heidelberg [Heidelberg], Laboratoire d'Intégration des Systèmes et des Technologies (LIST), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris-Saclay-Direction de Recherche Technologique (CEA) (DRT (CEA)), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris-Saclay-Laboratoire d'Intégration des Systèmes et des Technologies (LIST), Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris-Saclay, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (MNHN)-Université de Perpignan Via Domitia (UPVD), Università degli Studi di Ferrara (UniFE), University of Ferrara [Ferrara], Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (MNHN)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Perpignan Via Domitia (UPVD), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Paris-Saclay-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ), Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Paris-Saclay-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Paris-Saclay-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ), Université Paul-Valéry - Montpellier 3 (UM3)-Ministère de la Culture et de la Communication (MCC)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Paul-Valéry - Montpellier 3 (UPVM)-Ministère de la Culture (MC), Université Paris-Saclay-Direction de Recherche Technologique (CEA) (DRT (CEA)), and Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Laboratoire d'Intégration des Systèmes et des Technologies (LIST)

Subjects
010506 paleontology, Middle Pleistocene, Pleistocene, [SHS.ARCHEO]Humanities and Social Sciences/Archaeology and Prehistory, Pyroclastic rock, Fluvial, Socio-culturale, Levallois, Upper Volturno Valley, [SHS.MUSEO]Humanities and Social Sciences/Cultural heritage and museology, 01 natural sciences, archaeological site, Paleontology, 0601 history and archaeology, Sequence stratigraphy, Guado San Nicola, Handaxes, Lower/Middle Palaeolithic transition, 0105 earth and related environmental sciences, Earth-Surface Processes, Lithic industry, 060101 anthropology, Excavation, 06 humanities and the arts, Archaeology, Debitage, anthropic levels, Zooarchaeological data, Fluvial terrace, Paleontological data analysis, Radiometric dating, Geology, chrono-stratigraphic record
Abstract

International audience; The archaeological site of Guado San Nicola (Monteroduni, Central Italy), under excavation since 2008, is located in the Upper Volturno Valley, near the top of a fluvial terrace attributed to the Middle Pleistocene. Several anthropic levels have been recognized within a stratigraphic sequence of more than two meters in thickness, characterized by alternating gravelly and sandy fluvial layers rich in pyroclastic materials, attributable to the end of MIS 11-beginning of MIS 10, according to the obtained radiometric dates (Ar-40/Ar-39 and ESR/U-series). In this paper we discuss the chrono-stratigraphic record, the paleontological and zooarchaeological data and we provide a detailed techno-economic analysis of the lithic industry, characterized by the coexistence of handaxes and Levallois debitage. The site of Guado San Nicola represents the oldest evidence of the emergence of prepared-core technologies in the Italian Peninsula, adding new data to the debate on the Lower/Middle Palaeolithic transition in Western Europe.

Published
2016
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6. Introduzione

Author

Muttillo, Brunella, Lembo, Giuseppe, and Peretto, Carlo

Subjects
Pleistocene medio, Industria litica, Guado San Nicola, Levallois debitage
Published
2014

7. Il sito di Guado San Nicola

Author

Muttillo, Brunella, Lembo, Giuseppe, and Peretto, Carlo

Subjects
Guado San Nicola, Scavo archeologico, valle del Volturno
Published
2014

8. L'occupazione umana del Pleistocene medio di Guado San Nicola (Monteroduni, Molise)

Author

Peretto, Carlo, Arzarello, Marta, Bahain, J. J., Coltorti, M., De Bonis, A., Douville, E., Falguères, C., Norbert, F., Garcia, T., Lembo, Giuseppe, Morra, V., Muttillo, Brunella, Nomade, S., Shao, Q., Perrotta, A., Pieruccini, P., Rufo, MARIA ANGELA, Sala, Benedetto, Scarpati, C., THUN HOHENSTEIN, Ursula, Tessari, Umberto, Turrini, Maria Chiara, and Vaccaro, Carmela

Subjects
Pleistocene medio, Guado San Nicola, industria a bifacciali, Levallois
Published
2013

9. L'occupazione umana del Pleistocene medio di Guado San Nicola (Monteroduni, Molise)

Author

Peretto, C., Arzarello, M., Bahain, J. J., Boulbes, N., Coltorti, Mauro, DE BONIS, A, Douville, E., Falguères, C., Frank, N., Garcia, T., Lembo, G., Moigne, A. M., Morra, V., Muttillo, B., Nomade, S., Shao, Q., Perrotta, A., Pieruccini, Pierluigi, Rufo, M., Sala, B., Scarpati, C., THUN HOHENSTEIN, U., Tessari, U., Turrini, M. C., and Vaccaro, C.

Subjects
Bifaces, Italian Prehistory, Acheulean, Guado San Nicola, Hand
Published
2013

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