Vincenzo Formicola
Biographic Data
| ID | 77482 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Vincenzo Formicola |
| GIVEN NAMES | Vincenzo |
| FAMILY NAME | Formicola |
| SIGNATURE | FORMICOLA V |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Pisa |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 29 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 532 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 29 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1984 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 14 |
The Middle-Upper Paleolithic transition in Northwest Italy
Porotic hyperostosis in a Late Upper Palaeolithic skeleton (Villabruna 1, Italy)
Porotic hyperostosis (PH) is a well-recognised skeletal indicator of physiological stress occurring during the early years of childhood growth. Although frequently found starting from the Neolithic, PH is poorly documented among earlier Palaeolithic hunter-gatherers. This study reports a case of PH in a Late Upper Palaeolithic skeleton (Villabruna 1) from northern Italy. Macroscopic and radiographic examinations of the skeleton show symmetric por…
Hunters of the Ice Age
The Upper Paleolithic represents both the phase during which anatomically modern humans appeared and the climax of hunter-gatherer cultures. Demographic expansion into new areas that took place during this period and the diffusion of burial practices resulted in an unprecedented number of well-preserved human remains. This skeletal record, dovetailed with archeological, environmental, and chronological contexts, allows testing of hypotheses regar…
"On the Report "From the Sunghir Children to the Romito Dwarf
From the Sunghir Children to the Romito Dwarf
Because of their number, state of preservation, richness, and diversity of associated grave goods, burials from the Upper Paleolithic (28,000-10,000 BP) represent an important source of information on ideological aspects modeling funerary behavior of these populations. Analysis of the European record reveals an intriguing high frequency of multiple burials. A multiple burial may be unrelated to simultaneous deaths. However, absence of bone and gr…
Biomechanical approach to the reconstruction of activity patterns in Neolithic Western Liguria, Italy
This paper investigates the changes in upper and lower limb robusticity and activity patterns that accompanied the transition to a Neolithic subsistence in western Liguria (Italy). Diaphyseal robusticity measures were obtained from cross-sectional geometric properties of the humerus and femur in a sample of 16 individuals (eight males and eight females) dated to about 6,000-5,500 BP. Comparisons with European Late Upper Paleolithics (LUP) indicat…
Stratégies de subsistance et analyse culturelle de populations néolithiques de Ligurie
Literature proves the importance of the role of information technology in increasing the effectiveness of virtual R&D teams’ communication for new product development. However, the factors that make information technology construct in a virtual R&D team are still ambiguous. Managers of virtual R&D teams for new product development do not know “which type of technology should be used”. To address the gap and answer the question, the paper presents…
Tempo and mode of formation of the Late Epigravettian necropolis of Arene Candide cave (Italy)
Double child burial from sunghir (Russia)
The double child burial from Sunghir (Russia) is a spectacular Mid Upper Palaeolithic funerary example dated to about 24,000 BP. A boy (Sunghir 2) and a girl (Sunghir 3), about 12–13 and 9–10 years old, respectively, were buried at the same time, head to head, covered by red ocher and ornamented with extraordinarily rich grave goods. Examination of the two skeletons reveals that the Sunghir 3 femora are short and exhibit marked antero‐posterior b…
A Direct AMS Radiocarbon Date on the Barma Grande 6 Upper Paleolithic Skeleton
More is not always better
"The Gravettian burial known as the Prince ("Il Principe)
The famous upper Palaeolithic (Gravettian) burial with shell ornaments known as "Il Principe" was discovered in Italy sixty years ago. Here the authors present recent scientific research on his skeleton, leading to new assessments of the date of the burial and indications of diet
Bone remodelling following a lower leg fracture in the 11,000-year-old hunter-gatherer from Vado all' Arancio (Italy)
The Upper Palaeolithic skeleton from Vado all'Arancio (Italy), dated to about 11,330 BP, exhibits a severe ankle fracture healed with residual deformation. Following recovery, this young hunter-gatherer continued to walk for an extended period of time, albeit in a mechanically altered manner. While right-left differences in external lower limb bone measurements are relatively low, biomechanical analysis of femur and tibia indicates unusually pron…
Dolnı Věstonice 15
The Upper Paleolithic triple burial of Dolní Věstonice
This work focuses on paleopathological analysis of one of the skeletons from the Gravettian triple burial of Dolní Věstonice (Moravia) and addresses issues of Upper Paleolithic funerary behavior. The burial includes the well‐preserved skeletons of three young individuals. The skeleton in the middle (DV 15) is pathological and very problematic to sex; the other two (DV 13 and DV 14) are males and lie in an unusual position. The young age, the poss…
Evolutionary trends of stature in Upper Paleolithic and Mesolithic Europe
A Case of Marked Bilateral Asymmetry in the Upper Limbs of an Upper Palaeolithic Male from Barma Grande (Liguria), Italy
Barma Grande 2, a male skeleton of upper palaeolithic age from Balzi Rossi (Liguria, Italy), shows a marked degree of upper limb bilateral asymmetry. Similar cases of asymmetry in palaeolithic hominid fossils have variously been attributed to high levels of behavioural asymmetry (related to handedness) or a pathologically induced alteration of upper limb skeletal remodelling processes. As in many of these cases, the skeleton from Barma Grande lac…
Regression equations for estimating stature from long bones of early Holocene European samples
Regression equations for estimating living stature from long bone lengths have been calibrated on a sample of European Neolithic skeletons (33 males and 27 females) by using both least-squares (model I) and major axis (model II) regression techniques. Stature estimates of the skeletal sample have been made by means of Fully's anatomical method, a procedure based on the sum of all osseous components of height, providing the best approximations to …
Regression equations for estimating stature from long bones of early Holocene European samples
Regression equations for estimating living stature from long bone lengths have been calibrated on a sample of European Neolithic skeletons (33 males and 27 females) by using both least-squares (model I) and major-axis (model II) regression techniques. Stature estimates of the skeletal sample have been made by means of Fully's anatomical method, a procedure based on the sum of all osseous components of height, providing the best approximations to …
X‐linked hypophosphatemic rickets
The skeleton of a middle‐aged adult male, found in the Late Epigravettian necropolis of Arene Candide cave (Italy) and dated to the XII millenniumB.C., exhibits abnormal changes, including bowing deformities, stunted growth, enthesopathies, and increased bone density. The pattern of the observed changes is less consistent with diagnoses of metaphyseal chondrodysplasias, hypophosphatasia, dietary rickets, or diffuse idiopathic skeletal hyperostosi…
Stature reconstruction from long bones in ancient population samples
Stature estimates provided by the application of the anatomical method of Fully and Pineau (1960) to well preserved Neolithic skeletons (39 males and 27 females) from seven different European countries are compared with those drawn from lower‐extremity components by means of regression equations commonly used to predict stature of earlier European populations. The analysis of data, carried out with reference both to the sample of origin of the sk…
Interproximal grooving
Bilateral absence of the lesser trochanter in a Late Epigravettian skeleton from Arene Candide (Italy)
A virtually complete skeleton recovered from excavations in a Late Upper Paleolithic context by Cardini between 1940 and 1942 at the Arene Candide cave (NW Italy) lacks the normal development of the left and right lesser trochanters. The specimen is a short‐statured male about 25 years old and shows no other especially peculiar skeletal irregularities, except for high negative angles of femoral torsion. We discuss a number of possible etiologies …
Interproximal Grooving of Teeth
Evidence of spinal tuberculosis at the beginning of the fourth millennium BC from Arene Candide cave (Liguria, Italy)
This paper describes tuberculosislike lesions affecting the spine of Neolithic skeleton found in Arene Candide cave (Liguria, Italy) and representing one of the earliest cases of this disease in Europe. The burial is attributed to middle Neolithic (square‐mouthed pottery culture) whose layers date, by 14 C, to the first half of the fourth millennium BC. The skeleton, well preserved in the postcranial portion, belongs to a male aged about 15 years…
Biomechanical approach to the reconstruction of activity patterns in Neolithic Western Liguria, Italy
This paper investigates the changes in upper and lower limb robusticity and activity patterns that accompanied the transition to a Neolithic subsistence in western Liguria (Italy). Diaphyseal robusticity measures were obtained from cross-sectional geometric properties of the humerus and femur in a sample of 16 individuals (eight males and eight females) dated to about 6,000-5,500 BP. Comparisons with European Late Upper Paleolithics (LUP) indicat…
Evolutionary trends of stature in Upper Paleolithic and Mesolithic Europe
From the Sunghir Children to the Romito Dwarf
Because of their number, state of preservation, richness, and diversity of associated grave goods, burials from the Upper Paleolithic (28,000-10,000 BP) represent an important source of information on ideological aspects modeling funerary behavior of these populations. Analysis of the European record reveals an intriguing high frequency of multiple burials. A multiple burial may be unrelated to simultaneous deaths. However, absence of bone and gr…
"The Gravettian burial known as the Prince ("Il Principe)
The famous upper Palaeolithic (Gravettian) burial with shell ornaments known as "Il Principe" was discovered in Italy sixty years ago. Here the authors present recent scientific research on his skeleton, leading to new assessments of the date of the burial and indications of diet
Hunters of the Ice Age
The Upper Paleolithic represents both the phase during which anatomically modern humans appeared and the climax of hunter-gatherer cultures. Demographic expansion into new areas that took place during this period and the diffusion of burial practices resulted in an unprecedented number of well-preserved human remains. This skeletal record, dovetailed with archeological, environmental, and chronological contexts, allows testing of hypotheses regar…
Interproximal Grooving of Teeth
A Direct AMS Radiocarbon Date on the Barma Grande 6 Upper Paleolithic Skeleton
Stature reconstruction from long bones in ancient population samples
Stature estimates provided by the application of the anatomical method of Fully and Pineau (1960) to well preserved Neolithic skeletons (39 males and 27 females) from seven different European countries are compared with those drawn from lower‐extremity components by means of regression equations commonly used to predict stature of earlier European populations. The analysis of data, carried out with reference both to the sample of origin of the sk…
The Middle-Upper Paleolithic transition in Northwest Italy
Evidence of spinal tuberculosis at the beginning of the fourth millennium BC from Arene Candide cave (Liguria, Italy)
This paper describes tuberculosislike lesions affecting the spine of Neolithic skeleton found in Arene Candide cave (Liguria, Italy) and representing one of the earliest cases of this disease in Europe. The burial is attributed to middle Neolithic (square‐mouthed pottery culture) whose layers date, by 14 C, to the first half of the fourth millennium BC. The skeleton, well preserved in the postcranial portion, belongs to a male aged about 15 years…
Double child burial from sunghir (Russia)
The double child burial from Sunghir (Russia) is a spectacular Mid Upper Palaeolithic funerary example dated to about 24,000 BP. A boy (Sunghir 2) and a girl (Sunghir 3), about 12–13 and 9–10 years old, respectively, were buried at the same time, head to head, covered by red ocher and ornamented with extraordinarily rich grave goods. Examination of the two skeletons reveals that the Sunghir 3 femora are short and exhibit marked antero‐posterior b…
Stratégies de subsistance et analyse culturelle de populations néolithiques de Ligurie
Literature proves the importance of the role of information technology in increasing the effectiveness of virtual R&D teams’ communication for new product development. However, the factors that make information technology construct in a virtual R&D team are still ambiguous. Managers of virtual R&D teams for new product development do not know “which type of technology should be used”. To address the gap and answer the question, the paper presents…
Dolnı Věstonice 15
Tempo and mode of formation of the Late Epigravettian necropolis of Arene Candide cave (Italy)
The Upper Paleolithic triple burial of Dolní Věstonice
This work focuses on paleopathological analysis of one of the skeletons from the Gravettian triple burial of Dolní Věstonice (Moravia) and addresses issues of Upper Paleolithic funerary behavior. The burial includes the well‐preserved skeletons of three young individuals. The skeleton in the middle (DV 15) is pathological and very problematic to sex; the other two (DV 13 and DV 14) are males and lie in an unusual position. The young age, the poss…
Bone remodelling following a lower leg fracture in the 11,000-year-old hunter-gatherer from Vado all' Arancio (Italy)
The Upper Palaeolithic skeleton from Vado all'Arancio (Italy), dated to about 11,330 BP, exhibits a severe ankle fracture healed with residual deformation. Following recovery, this young hunter-gatherer continued to walk for an extended period of time, albeit in a mechanically altered manner. While right-left differences in external lower limb bone measurements are relatively low, biomechanical analysis of femur and tibia indicates unusually pron…
Interproximal grooving
More is not always better
Postcranial variations in late Epigravettian and Neolithic human remains from Arene Candide cave (Liguria, Italy)
X‐linked hypophosphatemic rickets
The skeleton of a middle‐aged adult male, found in the Late Epigravettian necropolis of Arene Candide cave (Italy) and dated to the XII millenniumB.C., exhibits abnormal changes, including bowing deformities, stunted growth, enthesopathies, and increased bone density. The pattern of the observed changes is less consistent with diagnoses of metaphyseal chondrodysplasias, hypophosphatasia, dietary rickets, or diffuse idiopathic skeletal hyperostosi…
Neolithic transition and dental changes
Bilateral absence of the lesser trochanter in a Late Epigravettian skeleton from Arene Candide (Italy)
A virtually complete skeleton recovered from excavations in a Late Upper Paleolithic context by Cardini between 1940 and 1942 at the Arene Candide cave (NW Italy) lacks the normal development of the left and right lesser trochanters. The specimen is a short‐statured male about 25 years old and shows no other especially peculiar skeletal irregularities, except for high negative angles of femoral torsion. We discuss a number of possible etiologies …
Anthropologie dentaire des restes de l'Epigravettien final retrouvés dans la grotte des Arène Candide (Ligurie)
Formicola V. Anthropologie dentaire des restes de l'Epigravettien final retrouvés dans la grotte des Arène Candide (Ligurie). In: Bulletins et Mémoires de la Société d'anthropologie de Paris, XIV° Série. Tome 3 fascicule 1, 1986. pp. 37-46
Porotic hyperostosis in a Late Upper Palaeolithic skeleton (Villabruna 1, Italy)
Porotic hyperostosis (PH) is a well-recognised skeletal indicator of physiological stress occurring during the early years of childhood growth. Although frequently found starting from the Neolithic, PH is poorly documented among earlier Palaeolithic hunter-gatherers. This study reports a case of PH in a Late Upper Palaeolithic skeleton (Villabruna 1) from northern Italy. Macroscopic and radiographic examinations of the skeleton show symmetric por…
Le squelette de l'Adrar Amadhel N-Enir, près de Tin Felki (Sahara algérien)
Formicola V., Balestri M. Le squelette de l'Adrar Amadhel N-Enir, près de Tin Felki (Sahara algérien). In: Bulletins et Mémoires de la Société d'anthropologie de Paris, XIV° Série. Tome 1 fascicule 2, 1984. pp. 91-100
Postcranial variations in late Epigravettian and Neolithic human remains from Arene Candide cave (Liguria, Italy)
Anthropologie dentaire des restes de l'Epigravettien final retrouvés dans la grotte des Arène Candide (Ligurie)
Formicola V. Anthropologie dentaire des restes de l'Epigravettien final retrouvés dans la grotte des Arène Candide (Ligurie). In: Bulletins et Mémoires de la Société d'anthropologie de Paris, XIV° Série. Tome 3 fascicule 1, 1986. pp. 37-46
Evidence of spinal tuberculosis at the beginning of the fourth millennium BC from Arene Candide cave (Liguria, Italy)
This paper describes tuberculosislike lesions affecting the spine of Neolithic skeleton found in Arene Candide cave (Liguria, Italy) and representing one of the earliest cases of this disease in Europe. The burial is attributed to middle Neolithic (square‐mouthed pottery culture) whose layers date, by 14 C, to the first half of the fourth millennium BC. The skeleton, well preserved in the postcranial portion, belongs to a male aged about 15 years…
Neolithic transition and dental changes
Interproximal Grooving of Teeth
Bilateral absence of the lesser trochanter in a Late Epigravettian skeleton from Arene Candide (Italy)
A virtually complete skeleton recovered from excavations in a Late Upper Paleolithic context by Cardini between 1940 and 1942 at the Arene Candide cave (NW Italy) lacks the normal development of the left and right lesser trochanters. The specimen is a short‐statured male about 25 years old and shows no other especially peculiar skeletal irregularities, except for high negative angles of femoral torsion. We discuss a number of possible etiologies …
Interproximal grooving
Stature reconstruction from long bones in ancient population samples
Stature estimates provided by the application of the anatomical method of Fully and Pineau (1960) to well preserved Neolithic skeletons (39 males and 27 females) from seven different European countries are compared with those drawn from lower‐extremity components by means of regression equations commonly used to predict stature of earlier European populations. The analysis of data, carried out with reference both to the sample of origin of the sk…
X‐linked hypophosphatemic rickets
The skeleton of a middle‐aged adult male, found in the Late Epigravettian necropolis of Arene Candide cave (Italy) and dated to the XII millenniumB.C., exhibits abnormal changes, including bowing deformities, stunted growth, enthesopathies, and increased bone density. The pattern of the observed changes is less consistent with diagnoses of metaphyseal chondrodysplasias, hypophosphatasia, dietary rickets, or diffuse idiopathic skeletal hyperostosi…
Regression equations for estimating stature from long bones of early Holocene European samples
Regression equations for estimating living stature from long bone lengths have been calibrated on a sample of European Neolithic skeletons (33 males and 27 females) by using both least-squares (model I) and major axis (model II) regression techniques. Stature estimates of the skeletal sample have been made by means of Fully's anatomical method, a procedure based on the sum of all osseous components of height, providing the best approximations to …
Regression equations for estimating stature from long bones of early Holocene European samples
Regression equations for estimating living stature from long bone lengths have been calibrated on a sample of European Neolithic skeletons (33 males and 27 females) by using both least-squares (model I) and major-axis (model II) regression techniques. Stature estimates of the skeletal sample have been made by means of Fully's anatomical method, a procedure based on the sum of all osseous components of height, providing the best approximations to …
A Case of Marked Bilateral Asymmetry in the Upper Limbs of an Upper Palaeolithic Male from Barma Grande (Liguria), Italy
Barma Grande 2, a male skeleton of upper palaeolithic age from Balzi Rossi (Liguria, Italy), shows a marked degree of upper limb bilateral asymmetry. Similar cases of asymmetry in palaeolithic hominid fossils have variously been attributed to high levels of behavioural asymmetry (related to handedness) or a pathologically induced alteration of upper limb skeletal remodelling processes. As in many of these cases, the skeleton from Barma Grande lac…
Evolutionary trends of stature in Upper Paleolithic and Mesolithic Europe
Dolnı Věstonice 15
The Upper Paleolithic triple burial of Dolní Věstonice
This work focuses on paleopathological analysis of one of the skeletons from the Gravettian triple burial of Dolní Věstonice (Moravia) and addresses issues of Upper Paleolithic funerary behavior. The burial includes the well‐preserved skeletons of three young individuals. The skeleton in the middle (DV 15) is pathological and very problematic to sex; the other two (DV 13 and DV 14) are males and lie in an unusual position. The young age, the poss…
Bone remodelling following a lower leg fracture in the 11,000-year-old hunter-gatherer from Vado all' Arancio (Italy)
The Upper Palaeolithic skeleton from Vado all'Arancio (Italy), dated to about 11,330 BP, exhibits a severe ankle fracture healed with residual deformation. Following recovery, this young hunter-gatherer continued to walk for an extended period of time, albeit in a mechanically altered manner. While right-left differences in external lower limb bone measurements are relatively low, biomechanical analysis of femur and tibia indicates unusually pron…
More is not always better
"The Gravettian burial known as the Prince ("Il Principe)
The famous upper Palaeolithic (Gravettian) burial with shell ornaments known as "Il Principe" was discovered in Italy sixty years ago. Here the authors present recent scientific research on his skeleton, leading to new assessments of the date of the burial and indications of diet
Double child burial from sunghir (Russia)
The double child burial from Sunghir (Russia) is a spectacular Mid Upper Palaeolithic funerary example dated to about 24,000 BP. A boy (Sunghir 2) and a girl (Sunghir 3), about 12–13 and 9–10 years old, respectively, were buried at the same time, head to head, covered by red ocher and ornamented with extraordinarily rich grave goods. Examination of the two skeletons reveals that the Sunghir 3 femora are short and exhibit marked antero‐posterior b…
A Direct AMS Radiocarbon Date on the Barma Grande 6 Upper Paleolithic Skeleton
Tempo and mode of formation of the Late Epigravettian necropolis of Arene Candide cave (Italy)
Biomechanical approach to the reconstruction of activity patterns in Neolithic Western Liguria, Italy
This paper investigates the changes in upper and lower limb robusticity and activity patterns that accompanied the transition to a Neolithic subsistence in western Liguria (Italy). Diaphyseal robusticity measures were obtained from cross-sectional geometric properties of the humerus and femur in a sample of 16 individuals (eight males and eight females) dated to about 6,000-5,500 BP. Comparisons with European Late Upper Paleolithics (LUP) indicat…
Stratégies de subsistance et analyse culturelle de populations néolithiques de Ligurie
Literature proves the importance of the role of information technology in increasing the effectiveness of virtual R&D teams’ communication for new product development. However, the factors that make information technology construct in a virtual R&D team are still ambiguous. Managers of virtual R&D teams for new product development do not know “which type of technology should be used”. To address the gap and answer the question, the paper presents…
From the Sunghir Children to the Romito Dwarf
Because of their number, state of preservation, richness, and diversity of associated grave goods, burials from the Upper Paleolithic (28,000-10,000 BP) represent an important source of information on ideological aspects modeling funerary behavior of these populations. Analysis of the European record reveals an intriguing high frequency of multiple burials. A multiple burial may be unrelated to simultaneous deaths. However, absence of bone and gr…
Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Studies (18 works) · Geography (15 works) · Archaeology (13 works) · Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology (13 works) · Anatomy (12 works) · Medicine (12 works) · Biology (10 works) · Paleontology (9 works) · Upper Paleolithic (9 works) · Anatomy (7 works)