The lithic industry of the Early Pleistocene site of Pirro Nord (Apricena South Italy): The evidence of a human occupation between 1.3 and 1.7 Ma

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作者
Arzarello, Marta [2 ]
Marcolini, Federica [3 ]
Pavia, Giulio [1 ]
Pavia, Marco [1 ]
Petronio, Carmelo [4 ]
Petrucci, Mauro [1 ]
Rook, Lorenzo [5 ]
Sardella, Raffaele [4 ]
机构
[1] Univ Turin, Dipartimento Sci Terra, I-10100 Turin, Italy
[2] Univ Ferrara, Dipartimento Risorse Nat & Culturali, I-44100 Ferrara, Italy
[3] Univ Rome Tre, Dipartimento Sci Geol, Rome, Italy
[4] Univ Roma La Sapienza, Dipartimento Sci Terra, I-00185 Rome, Italy
[5] Univ Florence, Dipartimento Sci Terra, I-50121 Florence, Italy
来源
ANTHROPOLOGIE | 2009年 / 113卷 / 01期
关键词
Fist peopling; Early Pleistocene; Mediterranean area; Italy; Lithic industry; Vertebrate; Biochronology; SPAIN; PLIOCENE; GEORGIA; MAMMALS; AGE;
D O I
10.1016/j.anthro.2009.01.004
中图分类号
Q98 [人类学];
学科分类号
070906 [古生物学及地层学(含古人类学)];
摘要
The site of Pirro Nord (also known as Cava Pirro or Cava Dell'Erba) is known in literature since the 1970's of the last century as a palaeontological site, of which the mammalian fossil association constitutes a reference (local) fauna for the European latest Villafranchian. This fossil association is also known for the occurrence of some African elements. During the 2005, a lithic industry has been found in three karst fissures, together with the typical elements of the Pirro Nord vertebrate assemblage. The biochronological assessment based on the vertebrate assemblage attributes it to a time interval bracketed between 1.3 Ma and 1.7 Ma. Thus the site of Pirro Nord represents the oldest human occupation of Europe so far known. The lithic assemblage, attributable to the Mode 1, is constituted by three cores and seven flakes, and is made only on flint. Lithic artefacts have been found in stratigraphic context during the preliminary surveys of the three fissures, that they will be the object of systematic excavations in the years to come. (C) 2009 Elsevier Masson SAS. All rights reserved.
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