L’industrie en calcaire du site Paléolithique d’Isernia la Pineta : un modèle interprétatif de stratégie comportementale

Rufo, Maria Angela; Minelli, Antonella; Peretto, Carlo

doi:10.1016/j.anthro.2009.01.001

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“…10: 1). Limestone exploitation does not show the intention to produce cutting edges, as it was hypothesized previously in the case of limestone choppers from t.3a (Rufo et al, 2009). No retouched flakes are included in the limestone assemblage.…”

Section: Limestonementioning

confidence: 88%

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The Lower/early Middle Pleistocene small débitage productions in Western Europe: New data from Isernia La Pineta t.3c (Upper Volturno Basin, Italy)

Gallotti

Peretto

2015

Quaternary International

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Section: Limestonementioning

confidence: 88%

“…The main goals of the lithic activities were small-medium flake production and percussion activities Peretto, 1994;Longo et al, 1997;Minelli, 2003;Peretto et al, 2004;Rufo et al, 2009).…”

Section: Isernia La Pineta Archaeological Contextmentioning

confidence: 98%

The Lower/early Middle Pleistocene small débitage productions in Western Europe: New data from Isernia La Pineta t.3c (Upper Volturno Basin, Italy)

Gallotti

Peretto

2015

Quaternary International

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“…The site was located on the shores of a river, and the local humidity, highlighted by the sedimentary filling, could have favoured the persistence of forested communities and consequent diversity of exploitable environments. Thus, to date, no other site apart from Guado San Nicola has clearly presented evidence of long-lived occupation through several climate phases, although potential taphonomical processes could have occurred (Coltordi et al, 1982;Radmilli and Boschian, 1996;Piperno, 1999;Palombo and Sardella, 2007;Rufo et al, 2009;Segre Naldini et al, 2009;Boschian and Saccà, 2010;Manzi et al, 2011;Anzidei et al, 2012). However, the Venosa Basin sites witnessed several phases of occupation.…”

Section: Evidence For Glacial Occupationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Several 40 Ar/ 39 Ar ages provided a reference age of 610 ± 10 ka, corresponding to MIS 15 (Coltorti et al, 2005;Shao et al, 2011). The tools are considered matching with an opportunistic late Mode 1 lithic industry (Coltorti et al, 1982;Peretto, 1983;Rufo et al, 2009). La Pineta records abundant faunal remains attributed to the Isernia Faunal Unit (FU) of the Galerian Mammal Age (MA) Palombo and Sardella, 2007).…”

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Hominin responses to environmental changes during the Middle Pleistocene in central and southern Italy

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The palaeobotanical record of early Palaeolithic sites from Western Europe indicates that hominins settled in different kinds of environments. During the "Mid-Pleistocene Transition (MPT)", from about 1 to 0.6 Ma, the transition from 41-ka to 100-ka dominant climatic oscillations, occurring within a long-term cooling trend, was associated with an aridity crisis which strongly modified the ecosystems. Starting from the MPT the more favorable climate of central and southern Italy provided propitious environmental conditions for long-term human occupations even during the glacial times. In fact, the human strategy of territory occupation was certainly driven by the availabilities of resources. Prehistoric sites such as Notarchirico (ca. 680–600 ka), La Pineta (ca. 600–620 ka), Gaudo San Nicola (ca. 380–350 ka) or Ceprano (ca. 345–355 ka) testify to a preferential occupation of the central and southern Apennines valleys during interglacial phases, while later interglacial occupations were oriented towards the coastal plains, as attested by the numerous settlements of the Roma basin (ca. 300 ka). Faunal remains indicate that human subsistence behaviors benefited of a diversity of exploitable ecosystems, from semi-open to closed environments. In central and southern Italy, several palynological records have already illustrated the regional and local scale vegetation dynamic trends. During the Middle Pleistocene climate cycles, mixed mesophytic forests developed during the interglacial periods and withdrew in response to increasing aridity during the glacial episodes. New pollen data from the Boiano basin (Molise, Italy), attest to the evolution of vegetation and climate between OIS 13 and 9 (ca. 500 to 300 ka). In this basin, the persistence of high edaphic humidity, even during the glacial phases, could have favored the establishment of a refuge area for the arboreal flora and provided subsistence resources for the animal and hominin communities during the Middle Pleistocene. This could have constrained human groups to migrate into such a propitious area. Regarding to the local climate evolution during the glacial episodes, the supposed displacement from these sites could be linked to the environmental dynamics solely due to the aridity increase rather than directly to the global climate changes

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“…Interest in the study of hammerstones and the traces they bear has recently been brought to the fore in the literature regarding some key late Early and Middle Pleistocene sites in Africa and Eurasia, for example, Melka Kunturé [1]; Olduvai Gorge [2,3]; Isernia la Pineta [4] and Gesher Benet Ya'aqov [5]. The current assimilation of an inter-disciplinary approach to prehistoric archaeology highlights exploration in percussive technology as a central research axis, not only in lithic studies, but also in the fields of taphonomy, primatology, ethnography, palaeontology and archaeozoology [6][7][8].…”

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Limestone percussion tools from the late Early Pleistocene sites of Barranco León and Fuente Nueva 3 (Orce, Spain)

Barsky

Vergès

Sala

et al. 2015

Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B

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In recent years, there is growing interest in the study of percussion scars and breakage patterns on hammerstones, cores and tools from Oldowan African and Eurasian lithic assemblages. Oldowan stone toolkits generally contain abundant small-sized flakes and their corresponding cores, and are characterized by their structural dichotomy of heavy- and light-duty tools. This paper explores the significance of the lesser known heavy-duty tool component, providing data from the late Lower Pleistocene sites of Barranco León and Fuente Nueva 3 (Orce, Spain), dated 1.4–1.2 Myr. Using quantitative and qualitative data from the large-sized limestone industries from these two major sites, we present a new methodology highlighting their morpho-technological features. In the light of the results, we discuss the shortfalls of extant classificatory methods for interpreting the role of percussive technology in early toolkits. This work is rooted in an experimental program designed to reproduce the wide range of percussion marks observed on the limestone artefacts from these two sites. A visual and descriptive reference is provided as an interpretative aid for future comparative research. Further experiments using a variety of materials and gestures are still needed before the elusive traces yield the secrets of the kinds of percussive activities carried out by hominins at these, and other, Oldowan sites.

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L’industrie en calcaire du site Paléolithique d’Isernia la Pineta : un modèle interprétatif de stratégie comportementale

Cited by 12 publications

References 5 publications

The Lower/early Middle Pleistocene small débitage productions in Western Europe: New data from Isernia La Pineta t.3c (Upper Volturno Basin, Italy)

The Lower/early Middle Pleistocene small débitage productions in Western Europe: New data from Isernia La Pineta t.3c (Upper Volturno Basin, Italy)

Hominin responses to environmental changes during the Middle Pleistocene in central and southern Italy

Limestone percussion tools from the late Early Pleistocene sites of Barranco León and Fuente Nueva 3 (Orce, Spain)

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