The dispersal of primitive elephantines and monodactyl equids in Eurasia has long been
regarded as representative of a substantial turnover in mammal faunas, denoting the spread …

Accurately reconstructing the scale and timing of dynamic processes, such as Middle-Late
Pleistocene explosive volcanism and rapid climatic changes, requires rigorous and …

The use of bone as raw material for implements is documented since the Early Pleistocene.
Throughout the Early and Middle Pleistocene bone tool sha** was done by percussion …

Abstract 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 …

In this work, the Middle Pleistocene mammal assemblage from Ponte Molle, a historical
locality of the urban area of Rome, has been revised together with a review of the …

ABSTRACT The Ponte Galeria area within the city of Rome has yielded numerous
fossiliferous localities that represent a reference point for the study of the European Middle …

Here we present the first tephrostratigraphic, palaeomagnetic, and multiproxy data from a
new∼ 98 m-deep sediment core retrieved from the Fucino Basin, central Italy, spanning the …

Trapped charge dating of optically bleached quartz, which involves techniques such as
electron spin resonance (ESR) and thermally transferred optically stimulated luminescence …

The geological sequences of numerous Lower and Middle Palaeolithic sites of central and
southern Italy, found in fluvio-lacustrine contexts and rich both in archaeological and …

The techno-functional approach has been employed to better understand one of the more
relevant artifact types generally found in Lower Palaeolithic sites: so-called small tools …