Cambiamenti ambientali indotti dalle variazioni climatiche oloceniche e dall’uomo nell’area dell’abitato antico di Pontecagnano

Amato, Vicenzo; Aiello, Giuseppe; Barra, Diana; Pasquale, Laura Di; Pasquale, Gaetano Di; Ermolli, Elda Russo; Aurino, Paula; Modesti, Gianni Bailo; Basile, Frencesco; Mancusi, Marcella; Cola, Cinzia Schiano di; Cerchiai, Luca; Pellegrino, Carmine; Rossi, A.; Viscione, M.; d’Andrea, Miriam; Negro, Domenico

doi:10.4000/mediterranee.3335

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“…Furthermore, pollen data from Pontecagnano (40 km South of our sites) clearly show that walnut was cultivated since the 3rd c. BC (Amato et al, 2009). Also in this case, the archaeological and the radiocarbon dates clearly demonstrated the presence of this tree in the North slope of Vesuvius until mid-5th c. AD.…”

Section: The Cultivated Landscapesupporting

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Persistence of the cultural landscape in Campania (Southern Italy) before the AD 472 Vesuvius eruption: archaeoenvironmental data

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Vairo

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Journal of Archaeological Science

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Section: The Cultivated Landscapesupporting

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Persistence of the cultural landscape in Campania (Southern Italy) before the AD 472 Vesuvius eruption: archaeoenvironmental data

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Vairo

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Journal of Archaeological Science

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“…This landscape, dominated by unstable conditions, undoubtedly influenced the quality and quantity of food available to the population that inhabited this area during the Etruscan Orientalizing period. It was only during the Archaic age (end of the 6th and beginning of the fifth century BCE) that impressive hydraulic works were undertaken at Pontecagnano in order to increase cultivable areas 85 , 87 , 88 .…”

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Infantile scurvy as a consequence of agricultural intensification in the 1st millennium BCE Etruria Campana

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Maudet,

Giuffra

et al. 2023

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The 1st millennium BCE in Italy was a time of agricultural intensification of staple cereal production which shaped sociocultural, political, and economic spheres of pre-Roman groups. The lifeways and foodways of the Etruscans, the greatest civilization in western Europe before Roman hegemony, are traditionally inferred from secondary written sources, funerary archaeology, archaeobotany, and zooarchaeology. However, no direct data extrapolated from the study of human skeletal remains are available to evaluate the extent to which agricultural intensification and decreased dietary diversity impacted health and the expression of skeletal indicators of metabolic disease. Macroscopic and radiological analyses were conducted on an archaeological skeletal sample of non-adults (n = 29) recovered from Pontecagnano (southern Italy) dating to the Orientalizing period (730–580 BCE). This allowed us to identify five cases of scorbutic non-adults and to assign diagnostic values to skeletal lesions of scurvy that have not been previously described in the literature. The onset of scurvy in the examined sample is related to the increased reliance of Etruscans on crops lacking vitamin C in this period of agricultural intensification. The skeletal expression of scurvy varied among the non-adults, with differences in location and disease severity; these were interpreted considering the age-at-death of the individuals coupled with feeding behaviors and interindividual variability.

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Evolution of the Sele River coastal plain (southern Italy) during the Late Quaternary by inland and offshore stratigraphical analyses

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Amato

Budillon

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Rend. Fis. Acc. Lincei

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The late Quaternary evolution of the Sele River\ud coastal plain (Salerno Gulf, southern Italy) was investigated\ud through integrated stratigraphical, chronological and\ud palaeoecological analyses. The main environmental changes\ud were ascribed to glacio-eustatic variations leading to\ud rapid ingressions alternating with coastal progradations.\ud The marked marine ingression of MIS 5.5 is testified by\ud palaeoridges now cropping out 4 km inland at 11/13 m\ud a.s.l. (Gromola palaeoridge). The eustatic minimum of MIS\ud 2 is testified by lower shoreface deposits in the offshore\ud core record and in the seismic profiles at 120/130 m below\ud sea level. This prolonged sea-level fall was interrupted by\ud at least three rapid sea-level rises, probably related to MIS\ud 5.3, 5.1 and 3. The evidence of the first two sea level rises\ud are represented by shoreface deposits in the inland S1 core\ud (30 m thick, 3 m a.s.l., 1.5 km inland). The highstand of\ud MIS 3 was identified by seismic profiles as onlapping\ud marine deposits. The shore deposits at 100 m b.s.l were\ud tentatively attributed to the lowstand of MIS 4. After the\ud lowstand of MIS 2, the Sele Plain was newly flooded due to\ud the rapid Post Glacial sea-level rise. This ingression caused\ud the inland migration of a barrier-lagoon system and stopped\ud at approximately 5.5 ky BP. From that moment the\ud shoreline started prograding up to the present position\ud probably due to the decrease in the sea-level rise rates and to the volcaniclastic supplies from the Neapolitan volcanoes,\ud especially from the AD 79 Vesuvius eruption, also\ud recorded in the subbottom chirp profiles

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Cambiamenti ambientali indotti dalle variazioni climatiche oloceniche e dall’uomo nell’area dell’abitato antico di Pontecagnano

Cited by 6 publications

References 13 publications

Persistence of the cultural landscape in Campania (Southern Italy) before the AD 472 Vesuvius eruption: archaeoenvironmental data

Persistence of the cultural landscape in Campania (Southern Italy) before the AD 472 Vesuvius eruption: archaeoenvironmental data

Infantile scurvy as a consequence of agricultural intensification in the 1st millennium BCE Etruria Campana

Evolution of the Sele River coastal plain (southern Italy) during the Late Quaternary by inland and offshore stratigraphical analyses

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