Author, as appears in the article.: Livraghi, Alessandra; Rivals, Florent; Rendu, William; Peresani, Marco;
Department: Història i Història de l'Art
URV's Author/s: Livraghi, Alessandra / Rivals, Florent Joseph Louis
Keywords: Teeth Subsistence strategies Site Settlement dynamics Reveal Northern italy Northeastern Nadale cave Middle paleolithic Middle Increments Hunting season Herbivore teeth analysis Dental cementum Bison
Abstract: Herbivore teeth are a valuable source of information for inferring the hunting season of past hunter-gatherers, the spatial-temporal organization of their activities, their socio-economic organization, and their adaptation to the seasonal fluctuation of the resources. Numberless of studies have been conducted on Neanderthals across Eurasia, but only few of them rely on the application of cementochronology and tooth wear analyses combined to obtain information about the ungulate paleodiet, paleoenvironments, and the time range of the mortality events. In this study, we present the results achieved though the combination of these two high-resolution techniques applied to large and medium-sized herbivore teeth yielded by two Middle Paleolithic sites in the north-east of Italy. We combined the two methodologies with the aim to overcome any possible lack of information, due to the use of a single method. This study addressed to analyze the material coming from two caves in the Venetian region, De Nadale and San Bernardino, and to produce data supporting the interpretation of the origin of the two archaeofaunal assemblages as a result of seasonal hunting events that took place mainly in winter. In this specific geographic and environmental context, our data gain a better understanding of Neanderthal subsistence strategies and occupational patterns.
Thematic Areas: Historia Geosciences, multidisciplinary Geociências Ciencias sociales Ciencias humanas Archeology (arts and humanities) Archeology Archaeology Antropologia / arqueologia Antropología Anthropology
licence for use: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/es/
Author's mail: florent.rivals@urv.cat alessandra.livraghi@estudiants.urv.cat
Author identifier: 0000-0001-8074-9254
Record's date: 2024-07-27
Papper version: info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
Link to the original source: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12520-022-01514-5
Licence document URL: https://repositori.urv.cat/ca/proteccio-de-dades/
Papper original source: Archaeological And Anthropological Sciences. 14 (3):
APA: Livraghi, Alessandra; Rivals, Florent; Rendu, William; Peresani, Marco; (2022). Neanderthals' hunting seasonality inferred from combined cementochronology, mesowear, and microwear analysis: case studies from the Alpine foreland in Italy. Archaeological And Anthropological Sciences, 14(3), -. DOI: 10.1007/s12520-022-01514-5
Article's DOI: 10.1007/s12520-022-01514-5
Entity: Universitat Rovira i Virgili
Journal publication year: 2022
Publication Type: Journal Publications