Mode de vie à Isernia La Pineta (Molise, Italie). Stratégie d’exploitation du Bison schoetensacki par les groupes humains au Paléolithique inférieur

Hohenstein, Ursula Thun; Nucci, Annarosa Di; Moigne, Anne‐Marie

doi:10.1016/j.anthro.2009.01.009

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“…Such assumption is consistent with the global environmental dynamics (Bertini, 2010;Manzi et al, 2011;Magri and Palombo, 2013). Nevertheless, in all the studied sites, forest mammal taxa are sub-dominant to dominant, mainly with Dama and Cervus (locally with Axis), and also with forested grassland taxa such as Bison schoetensacki, Bos primigenius and Megaloceros (Radmilli and Boschian, 1996;Cassoli et al, 1999;Thun Hohenstein et al, 2004;Sardella et al, 2006;Palombo and Sardella, 2007;Thun Hohenstein et al, 2009;Boschian and Saccà, 2010;Palombo, 2010;Anzidei et al, 2012. Magri and.…”

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confidence: 57%

“…Therefore, human communities had to adapt their activities to the evolution of the ecosystems, especially during these faunal turnovers. Subsistence behaviour analysis from the earliest sites (La Pineta and Notarchirico) highlighted that the local populations mainly selected the faunal species offering the most economically profitable volume of muscular mass (Cassoli et al, 1999;Thun Hohenstein et al, 2009). These studies have also demonstrated that hominins had already acquired active predation behaviours, including specimen selections, with only occasional scavenging.…”

Section: Faunal Recordsmentioning

confidence: 87%

“…The numerous faunal assemblages from archaeological sites provide an important background for inquiring the subsistence behaviour of hominin communities, in relation to the exploited environments (Radmilli and Boschian, 1996;Cassoli et al, 1999;Raia et al, 2005;Sardella et al, 2006;Palombo and Sardella, 2007;Thun Hohenstein et al, 2009;Boschian and Saccà, 2010;Anzidei et al, 2012;Magri and Palombo, 2013). The main predated taxa identified in each site, and therefore the types of environments the hominin communities exploited, are summarized in Table 2.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…At La Pineta, the hunting and butchery testimonies clearly indicate that Bison schoetensacki constituted the main target (Thun Hohenstein et al, 2009). However, records of several other taxa from a large panel of ecosystems confirm that hunting was also conducted in different types of environments.…”

Section: Faunal Recordsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The flexibility and plasticity of these hominin communities certainly entertained their capacity to settle and exploit a large range of environmental conditions (Messager et al, 2011b), and to develop predation strategies taking the benefits of this diversity Palombo and Sardella, 2007;Thun Hohenstein et al, 2009;Manzi et al, 2011).…”

Section: Faunal Recordsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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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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Section: Regional Mobilitysupporting

confidence: 57%

Section: Faunal Recordsmentioning

confidence: 87%

Section: Faunal Recordsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Faunal Recordsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Faunal Recordsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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

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The deer from the early Middle Pleistocene site of Isernia la Pineta (Molise, Italy): revised identifications and new remains from the last 15 years of excavation

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The deer remains from the renowned Palaeolithic site of Isernia la Pineta (southern Italy) are revised. Both material already published, and\ud new specimens from the last 15 years of excavation, is taken into account and some identifications are revised. The published assemblage consists\ud of Megaceroides solilhacus, Cervus sp. cf. C. elaphus acoronatus, Dama sp. cf. D. clactoniana and Capreolus sp. The literature dealing\ud with these species is discussed and the problems still unresolved are outlined. The giant deer, now assigned by most authors to the genus\ud Praemegaceros as P. solilhacus, is the largest and most common deer species at the site, represented by numerous antler fragments plus a\ud few isolated teeth and fragmentary postcranial elements. The retrieval of new, well-preserved specimens, namely one nearly complete antler,\ud plus a distal portion of palmation, two neural skulls and one premaxillary bone, allows a better characterization of this otherwise still poorly\ud understood species. The sub-specific attribution of the red deer, in the lack of more complete antler specimens, is still dubious. The fallow deer\ud remains probably belong to Dama roberti, a recently described species from the early Middle Pleistocene of Western Europe. The morphology\ud of the lower portion of the only preserved antler fits better with this species rather than with D. clactoniana, to which it was previously\ud tentatively assigned. At last, the specific identity of the few roe deer remains from Isernia is discussed, but the problem remains unanswered\ud because of lack of agreement, in the literature, about the taxonomy of the Pleistocene species. Copyright © 2015 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd

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Beyond the Problem of Bone Surface Preservation in Taphonomic Studies of Early and Middle Pleistocene Open-Air Sites

Pineda

Saladié

2022

J Archaeol Method Theory

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A commonly identified problem in open-air sites is the poor preservation of bone surfaces because of the multiple agents and processes that act on them. In these assemblages, surface modifications of anthropic origin can be scarce or null, and its activity is mainly inferred through the stone tools and evidence of anthropogenic breakage. Carnivore activity is also frequent. La Mina and El Forn (Barranc de la Boella), Isernia La Pineta, and Torralba are open-air assemblages from the Early and Middle Pleistocene that have contributed to our knowledge of the activities that Lower Paleolithic hominins developed in open spaces. These sites show poorly preserved bone surfaces, evidence of carnivore activity, and few indications of human use on the faunal remains, although stone tools recovered are unequivocal sign of a hominin presence at those sites. Here, we present a synthesis of the taphonomic conducted at these sites with the aim of describing how this kind of work can be conducted at Paleolithic open-air sites using several different proxies, considering the limitations commonly identified in assemblages with poorly preserved bone surfaces. The absence or scarcity of cut marks could be related to the poor preservation of the faunal remains. However, it is impossible to affirm that any such marks were originally present, as hominins may have performed activities not linked to animal carcasses. Anatomical profiles have been presented as a useful tool for reconstructing the paleoecological environments and for allowing inferences to be made about the levels of competition among large predators. The assemblages reflect similarities in the deposition type of the remains and the use of these open spaces by hominins at different times during the Lower Paleolithic.

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Mode de vie à Isernia La Pineta (Molise, Italie). Stratégie d’exploitation du Bison schoetensacki par les groupes humains au Paléolithique inférieur

Cited by 29 publications

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

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

The deer from the early Middle Pleistocene site of Isernia la Pineta (Molise, Italy): revised identifications and new remains from the last 15 years of excavation

Beyond the Problem of Bone Surface Preservation in Taphonomic Studies of Early and Middle Pleistocene Open-Air Sites

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