Reassessing the faunal assemblages of the late pleistocene stratified karst filling from avetrana (Apulia, Southern Italy): The BED 8, palaeoenvironment and biochronology
The late Quaternary vertebrate deposit of the stratified karst filling from Avetrana (Apulia, Italy) was the subject of an intensive excavation campaign in 2003, followed by numerous subsequent investigations and collections of fossil remains. In this work, the biochronological implications and the...
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ftunivnewengland:oai:rune.une.edu.au:1959.11/58463 2024-05-19T07:38:43+00:00 Reassessing the faunal assemblages of the late pleistocene stratified karst filling from avetrana (Apulia, Southern Italy): The BED 8, palaeoenvironment and biochronology Salari, Leonardo Petronio, Carmelo Kotsakis, Tassos Di Stefano, Giuseppe Grossi, Francesco Maiorino, Leonardo Pandolfi, Luca Federico Rolfo, Mario Daniela Ruiu, Francesca Sansalone, Gabriele School of Environmental and Rural Science orcid:0000-0003-3680-8418 Tagliacozzo, Antonio 2019-05-10 https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/58463 https://rune.une.edu.au/web/retrieve/10c634b3-1ece-4770-96eb-4f01bab26e11 en eng Associazione Italiana per lo Studio del Quaternario 10.26382/AMQ.2019.07 https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/58463 https://rune.une.edu.au/web/retrieve/10c634b3-1ece-4770-96eb-4f01bab26e11 une:1959.11/58463 UNE Green http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ Geology Journal Article 2019 ftunivnewengland 2024-04-24T23:40:05Z The late Quaternary vertebrate deposit of the stratified karst filling from Avetrana (Apulia, Italy) was the subject of an intensive excavation campaign in 2003, followed by numerous subsequent investigations and collections of fossil remains. In this work, the biochronological implications and the palaeoenvironmental reconstruction of the area in the Late Pleistocene are updat-ed and improved based on the more recent observations (2012-2013). In particular, the faunal assemblage found in the uppermost stratum (bed 8) of the fossiliferous deposit is analysed where the proportion of wolf remains increases sharply against the underly-ing layers. A synthesis and a recapitulation of the vertebrate assemblages recovered in the entire stratified karst filling are also given.New observations on the preservation of the bone remains and population analyses of representative mammal species (Canis lupus, Bos primigenius, Cervus elaphus, Dama dama and Sus scrofa) show that bed 8 displays features indicating its origination in sedimentary, climatic and environmental conditions quite different from those of underlying beds. Up to bed 7, the stratified karst filling and its faunal assemblages were generated by a succession of catastrophic mass mortality events in a very short time alter-nated with moments of quiet deposition, during the early Late Pleistocene (MIS 5e). Instead, bed 8 deposited over a longer timespan, probably to be placed between the beginning of last glacial period and early MIS 3, when a puddle of water or a pond was likely at the top of the residual cavity filling.Lithic artefacts recovered in bed 8 and in bed 6 only testifies the attendance of Neanderthal humans in the surrounding of Avetra-na. Article in Journal/Newspaper Canis lupus Research UNE - University of New England at Armidale, NSW Australia |
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The late Quaternary vertebrate deposit of the stratified karst filling from Avetrana (Apulia, Italy) was the subject of an intensive excavation campaign in 2003, followed by numerous subsequent investigations and collections of fossil remains. In this work, the biochronological implications and the palaeoenvironmental reconstruction of the area in the Late Pleistocene are updat-ed and improved based on the more recent observations (2012-2013). In particular, the faunal assemblage found in the uppermost stratum (bed 8) of the fossiliferous deposit is analysed where the proportion of wolf remains increases sharply against the underly-ing layers. A synthesis and a recapitulation of the vertebrate assemblages recovered in the entire stratified karst filling are also given.New observations on the preservation of the bone remains and population analyses of representative mammal species (Canis lupus, Bos primigenius, Cervus elaphus, Dama dama and Sus scrofa) show that bed 8 displays features indicating its origination in sedimentary, climatic and environmental conditions quite different from those of underlying beds. Up to bed 7, the stratified karst filling and its faunal assemblages were generated by a succession of catastrophic mass mortality events in a very short time alter-nated with moments of quiet deposition, during the early Late Pleistocene (MIS 5e). Instead, bed 8 deposited over a longer timespan, probably to be placed between the beginning of last glacial period and early MIS 3, when a puddle of water or a pond was likely at the top of the residual cavity filling.Lithic artefacts recovered in bed 8 and in bed 6 only testifies the attendance of Neanderthal humans in the surrounding of Avetra-na. |
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Salari, Leonardo Petronio, Carmelo Kotsakis, Tassos Di Stefano, Giuseppe Grossi, Francesco Maiorino, Leonardo Pandolfi, Luca Federico Rolfo, Mario Daniela Ruiu, Francesca Sansalone, Gabriele School of Environmental and Rural Science orcid:0000-0003-3680-8418 Tagliacozzo, Antonio |
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Salari, Leonardo Petronio, Carmelo Kotsakis, Tassos Di Stefano, Giuseppe Grossi, Francesco Maiorino, Leonardo Pandolfi, Luca Federico Rolfo, Mario Daniela Ruiu, Francesca Sansalone, Gabriele School of Environmental and Rural Science orcid:0000-0003-3680-8418 Tagliacozzo, Antonio |
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Reassessing the faunal assemblages of the late pleistocene stratified karst filling from avetrana (Apulia, Southern Italy): The BED 8, palaeoenvironment and biochronology |
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Reassessing the faunal assemblages of the late pleistocene stratified karst filling from avetrana (Apulia, Southern Italy): The BED 8, palaeoenvironment and biochronology |
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Reassessing the faunal assemblages of the late pleistocene stratified karst filling from avetrana (Apulia, Southern Italy): The BED 8, palaeoenvironment and biochronology |
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Reassessing the faunal assemblages of the late pleistocene stratified karst filling from avetrana (Apulia, Southern Italy): The BED 8, palaeoenvironment and biochronology |
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Reassessing the faunal assemblages of the late pleistocene stratified karst filling from avetrana (Apulia, Southern Italy): The BED 8, palaeoenvironment and biochronology |
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reassessing the faunal assemblages of the late pleistocene stratified karst filling from avetrana (apulia, southern italy): the bed 8, palaeoenvironment and biochronology |
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Associazione Italiana per lo Studio del Quaternario |
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Canis lupus |
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