Dating human occupation and adaptation in the southern European last glacial refuge: The chronostratigraphy of Grotta del Romito (Italy)
Grotta del Romito has been the subject of numerous archaeological, chronological and palaeoenvironmental investigations for more than a decade. During the Upper Palaeolithic period the site contains evidence of human occupation through the Gravettian and Epigravettian periods, multiple human burials...
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ftgfzpotsdam:oai:gfzpublic.gfz-potsdam.de:item_2653919 2023-05-15T16:30:00+02:00 Dating human occupation and adaptation in the southern European last glacial refuge: The chronostratigraphy of Grotta del Romito (Italy) Blockley, S. Pellegrini, M. Colonese, A. Lo Vetro, D. Albert, P. Brauer, A. Di Giuseppe, Z. Evans, A. Harding, P. Lee-Thorp, J. Lincoln, P. Martini, F. Pollard, M. Smith, V. Donahue, R. 2018 https://gfzpublic.gfz-potsdam.de/pubman/item/item_2653919 unknown info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/doi/10.1016/j.quascirev.2017.09.007 info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/urn/http://doi.crossref.org/servlet/query?format=unixref&pid=bib@gfz-potsdam.de&id=10.1016/j.quascirev.2017.09.007 https://gfzpublic.gfz-potsdam.de/pubman/item/item_2653919 Quaternary Science Reviews info:eu-repo/semantics/article 2018 ftgfzpotsdam https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2017.09.007 2022-09-14T05:53:40Z Grotta del Romito has been the subject of numerous archaeological, chronological and palaeoenvironmental investigations for more than a decade. During the Upper Palaeolithic period the site contains evidence of human occupation through the Gravettian and Epigravettian periods, multiple human burials, changes in the pattern of human occupation, and faunal, isotopic and sedimentological evidence for local environmental change. In spite of this rich record, the chronological control is insufficient to resolve shifts in subsistence and mobility patterns at sufficiently high resolution to match the abrupt climate fluctuations at this time. To resolve this we present new radiocarbon and tephrostratigraphic dates in combination with existing radiocarbon dates, and develop a Bayesian age model framework for the site. This improved chronology reveals that local environmental conditions reflect abrupt and long-term changes in climate, and that these also directly influence changing patterns of human occupation of the site. In particular, we show that the environmental record for the site, based on small mammal habitat preferences, is chronologically in phase with the main changes in climate and environment seen in key regional archives from Italy and Greenland. We also calculate the timing of the transitions between different cultural phases and their spans. We also show that the intensification in occupation of the site is chronologically coincident with a rapid rise in Mesic Woody taxa seen in key regional pollen records and is associated with the Late Epigravettian occupation of the site. This change in the record of Grotta del Romito is also closely associated stratigraphically with a new tephra (the ROM-D30 tephra), which may act as a critical marker in environmental records of the region. Article in Journal/Newspaper Greenland GFZpublic (German Research Centre for Geosciences, Helmholtz-Zentrum Potsdam) Greenland Quaternary Science Reviews 184 5 25 |
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Grotta del Romito has been the subject of numerous archaeological, chronological and palaeoenvironmental investigations for more than a decade. During the Upper Palaeolithic period the site contains evidence of human occupation through the Gravettian and Epigravettian periods, multiple human burials, changes in the pattern of human occupation, and faunal, isotopic and sedimentological evidence for local environmental change. In spite of this rich record, the chronological control is insufficient to resolve shifts in subsistence and mobility patterns at sufficiently high resolution to match the abrupt climate fluctuations at this time. To resolve this we present new radiocarbon and tephrostratigraphic dates in combination with existing radiocarbon dates, and develop a Bayesian age model framework for the site. This improved chronology reveals that local environmental conditions reflect abrupt and long-term changes in climate, and that these also directly influence changing patterns of human occupation of the site. In particular, we show that the environmental record for the site, based on small mammal habitat preferences, is chronologically in phase with the main changes in climate and environment seen in key regional archives from Italy and Greenland. We also calculate the timing of the transitions between different cultural phases and their spans. We also show that the intensification in occupation of the site is chronologically coincident with a rapid rise in Mesic Woody taxa seen in key regional pollen records and is associated with the Late Epigravettian occupation of the site. This change in the record of Grotta del Romito is also closely associated stratigraphically with a new tephra (the ROM-D30 tephra), which may act as a critical marker in environmental records of the region. |
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Blockley, S. Pellegrini, M. Colonese, A. Lo Vetro, D. Albert, P. Brauer, A. Di Giuseppe, Z. Evans, A. Harding, P. Lee-Thorp, J. Lincoln, P. Martini, F. Pollard, M. Smith, V. Donahue, R. |
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Blockley, S. Pellegrini, M. Colonese, A. Lo Vetro, D. Albert, P. Brauer, A. Di Giuseppe, Z. Evans, A. Harding, P. Lee-Thorp, J. Lincoln, P. Martini, F. Pollard, M. Smith, V. Donahue, R. Dating human occupation and adaptation in the southern European last glacial refuge: The chronostratigraphy of Grotta del Romito (Italy) |
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Blockley, S. Pellegrini, M. Colonese, A. Lo Vetro, D. Albert, P. Brauer, A. Di Giuseppe, Z. Evans, A. Harding, P. Lee-Thorp, J. Lincoln, P. Martini, F. Pollard, M. Smith, V. Donahue, R. |
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Dating human occupation and adaptation in the southern European last glacial refuge: The chronostratigraphy of Grotta del Romito (Italy) |
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Dating human occupation and adaptation in the southern European last glacial refuge: The chronostratigraphy of Grotta del Romito (Italy) |
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Dating human occupation and adaptation in the southern European last glacial refuge: The chronostratigraphy of Grotta del Romito (Italy) |
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Dating human occupation and adaptation in the southern European last glacial refuge: The chronostratigraphy of Grotta del Romito (Italy) |
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Dating human occupation and adaptation in the southern European last glacial refuge: The chronostratigraphy of Grotta del Romito (Italy) |
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