Correction to: Life Around the Elephant in Space and Time: an Integrated Approach to Study the Human-Elephant Interactions at the Late Lower Paleolithic Site of La Polledrara di Cecanibbio (Rome, Italy)

Lemorini, Cristina; Santucci, Ernesto; Caricola, Isabella; Nucara, A.; Nunziante-Cesaro, S.

doi:10.1007/s10816-022-09588-0

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“…These data indicate the presence of bone fragments, bone flakes and retouched bones from late lower Palaeolithic sites onwards. These items are sparsely distributed in these sites, suggesting that they were present not due to occasional use or intentional production but due to the primary role of these items in the toolkit, which we attribute to the lithic industry 18 , 35 , 36 and reference there in .…”

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The use of bones as tools in Late Lower Paleolithic of Central Italy

Marinelli,

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Lemorini

2024

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The Latium area in Italy has yielded rich evidence of Lower Paleolithic sites with both faunal remains, artefacts, and human fossil remains, such as the Ceprano human skull. Many are the sites where lithic industry has been found in association with bone industry. Medium and large animals were a key resource because they provided an enormous amount of meat and fat. However, they were extensively exploited for their bones, rich in marrow, and as raw material for tool production. Bone tools are so far few documented for early period of time and especially for the Middle Pleistocene in Western Europe. We report here evidence of bone tools and their efficiency of use for hominin groups living in the Frosinone-Ceprano basin during the MIS 11/10, a key period which records behavioral innovations and onset of the Neanderthal behaviors. In three sites, Isoletta, Colle Avarone and Selvotta, several bone tools and bone flakes have been discovered (MIS 11/10). They were associated to stone artefacts part of the hominins tool-kit. Technological and use-wear analyses conducted on these bone industries, dated between 410 and 430 ka, yield relevant results to understand the effectiveness of the bones tools found associated with lithic series, including handaxes.

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confidence: 98%