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Materiali protostorici dalla grotta Vittorio Vecchi (Sezze Romano, LT)
No full textIl volume costituisce l'edizione degli scavi effettuati allla grotta Vittorio Vecchi presso Sezze (LT), sito utilizzato a scopo sepolcrale nella prima metà del II millennio a.C
Notizie storiche; Le pitture
No full textI due capitoli ricostruiscono le vicende storiche e decorative del santuario di S. Maria in Grotta a Rongolise, uno dei più noti insediamenti rupestri della Campania medievale. Pubblicato in forma di numero monografico della rivista "Civiltà Aurunca", lo studio, realizzato in collaborazione con l'arch. Giuseppina Torriero, illustra le novità emerse in occasione dell'intervento di restauro effettuato nel 1993 dalla Soprintendenza BAAAS di Caserta e Benevento. Il restauro, documentato nella pubblicazione, comportò la scoperta dello strato più antico della decorazione pittorica - un'immagine della Vergine in trono tra gli angeli - individuato sulla parete di fondo della grotta. Il ritrovamento ha permesso di identificare la più antica attestazione del sito, menzionato nella "Chronica monasterii casinensis"
Late Pleistocene skeleton of Canis lupus l., 1758 from Grotta Mora Cavorso (Jenne, Latium, Central Italy)
No full textThis paper describes the skeleton of Canis lupus found in Layer 7 of Grotta Mora Cavorso (Latium, central Italy), correlated with the MIS 3. Research on the deposition dynamics of this find is still in progres, but the action of human or other predactors can be excluded. The age at death was estimated at around six years old. Preliminary morphometric analyses and comparisions with samples of Italian Late Pleistocene wolf and extant Apennine wolf (C. lupus italicus) remains, show that the dimension of teeeth and long bones are among the biggest known from the Late Pleistocene and larger than the extant Apennine wolf
Breve nota sulle faune del Paleolitico medio e superiore della Grotta delle Veneri di Parabita (LE)
No full textThe Grotta delle Veneri near Parabita has yielded a fair quantity of faunal remains, chronologically dated to the
period from the Middle Palaeolithic (Mousterian) to the Upper Palaeolithic (Epigravettian and Romanellian).
Those of the Middle Palaeolithic, less numerous, include aurochs, horse, deer, fox, wild boar and porcupine,
which seems to indicate an environment characterised by both grassland and not particularly dense woodland.
More frequent are the remains dated to the Upper Palaeolithic, which are associated with the Epigravettian and
the Romanellian. The fauna of these periods is characterised above all by aurochs (about 33% for both the Epigravettian and Romanellian) followed by equids (respectively 23% in the older phase and 15% in the more recent
phase) and, in smaller quantities, wild boar and fox. Particularly interesting is the presence of both the cave hyena
(Crocuta crocuta spelaea Goldfuss) and the porcupine (Hystrix cristata L.). The presence of the former in the
Grotta delle Veneri near Parabita would seem to be one of the most recent reported cases of this mammal in Italy.
In contrast, given its preference for caves, the presence of the porcupine in the Romanellian levels is probably
the result of a more recent intrusion
Camaiore (Lu). Nuove indagini nel deposito preistorico di Grotta all'Onda.
No full textRelazione preliminare sullo scavo dei livelli paleolitici e neolitici dellla Grotta all'Onda (Camaiore, LU
The wolf from Grotta Mora Cavorso (Simbruini mountains, Latium) within the evolution of Canis lupus L., 1758 in the Quaternary of Italy
No full textThis paper describes the Late Pleistocene and Holocene remains of Canis lupus from Grotta Mora Cavorso (Latium, Italy), with a particular focus on the anatomically connected skeleton found in Layer 7, radiometrically dated to over 43,500 years BP and correlated with Marine Isotopic Stage 3. The studied specimens were compared with wolf remains collected from numerous Middle and Late Pleistocene and Holocene sites in Italy, France, Austria and Slovenia. Additional comparisons were made with a sample of the extant Apennine wolf, Canis lupus italicus. The Late Pleistocene and Holocene wolves from Grotta Mora Cavorso range between 6 and 10 years of age at death, 64–75 cm in height at the withers, 150–162 cm in body length, and 30–39 kg in body mass. They are morphometrically close to Canis lupus maximus, a Late Pleistocene chrono-subspecies of France. The late Middle and Late Pleistocene wolves of Italy show a great variability in body size. This prevents the recognition of a progressive increase of size in Italian wolves with any resulting biochronological implications. The Holocene reduction in body size of the extant Apennine wolf was more recent than previously thought, probably because of genetic isolation, and the rarefaction and subsequent local extinction of large-sized prey, such as red deer. In addition, the 6 year old anatomically connected specimen discovered at Grotta Mora Cavorso, probably a female, allows some considerations on the functional morphology of Pleistocene wolves
The Grotta Grande of Scario (Salerno - Southern Italy): stratigraphy, archaeological finds, pollen and mammals.
No full textRicostruzione archeo-paleoambientale della Grotta Grande di Scario (Campania)
Nuove datazioni radiometriche con il metodo U/Th sulle formazioni stalagmitiche di Grotta all’Onda.
No full textDatazione asoluta dei livelli stalagmitici del Pleistocene Superiore rinvenuti nel sito preistorico della Grotta all'Onda (Camaiore, Lucca)
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