Vincenzo Spagnolo
Biographic Data
| ID | 631833 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Vincenzo Spagnolo |
| GIVEN NAMES | Vincenzo |
| FAMILY NAME | Spagnolo |
| SIGNATURE | SPAGNOLO V |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Siena |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2090-0260 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 158 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2027 |
| H-INDEX | 8 |
Faunal Evidence and the Duration of Occupation: A Statistical Approach to Neanderthal Archaeological Sites
The duration of Neanderthal occupations of caves and rock shelters is one of the most debated issues in prehistoric archaeology. Several disciplines, including lithic analysis, micromorphology, zooarchaeology, taphonomy, and spatial archaeology, have proposed criteria to estimate occupation length, but their reliability varies. This study focuses only on indicators derived from faunal assemblages and evaluates their effectiveness through statisti…
Flexible Late Mousterian lithic technological organisation at Riparo l’Oscurusciuto (Italy): A typo-technological and 3D-based approach
The portion of the Riparo l’Oscurusciuto (Italy) stratigraphic sequence so far excavated provides an outstanding record of the local population history between ca. 55 − 42 kya BP: a key period for understanding the end of the Middle Palaeolithic and the onset of the Upper Palaeolithic on a regional level. Previous studies focusing on the settlement pattern, the spatial organisation, and the lithic technology within the lower part of the exposed l…
Environment and hunting territories for Late Neanderthals in central Italy: New palaeoecological data from Grotta dei Santi (Monte Argentario – Tuscany, Italy)
The Mousterian sequence of Grotta dei Santi (central Italy) is dated to MIS 3. • Palynological study of hyaena coprolites reconstruct the vegetation landscapes. • The Late Pleistocene vegetation in the Grotta dei Santi shows temperate climatic conditions. • The regional pollen comparison constrained the Neanderthal presence in the GI-12. • Neanderthals did not abandoned the cave and the surrounding area for environmental stress. The Italian penin…
The palaeoenvironmental context of MIS 3 and the use of plants by Neanderthal groups in southern Italy: Results from the Riparo l’Oscurusciuto site
Phytolith and pollen allow reconstruction of vegetation over 12,200 ka. • Vegetation is shifting from forests to open areas along the studied sequence. • Siliceous aqueous microremains indicates moisture conditions within the site. • Use of Poaceae plants and ash scattering revealed by study of sediments and hearths. • High phytolith dissolution is due to calcium carbonate rich sediments. Neanderthal populations occupied caves and rockshelters ac…
From settlement patterns to memory of place among Holocene hunter-gatherers at Sai Island, Middle Nile Valley
Persistent places are the locations where people aggregate, utilise and reuse natural or built features and develop their social identities and interactions. A network of persistent places forms interconnected persistent settlement patterns, which create a humanly made or storied landscape with a shared community-based memory of place. Although it has been demonstrated that persistent settlement patterns long preceded the onset of Neolithic farmi…
Less is more! Uluzzian technical behaviour at the cave site of Castelcivita (southern Italy)
Middle and early upper Pleistocene human occupations in Southern Italy. A reassessment of the assemblages from Cala d’Arconte, Capo Grosso and Cala Bianca
Settlement, space organization and land-use of a small Middle Bronze Age community of central Italy. The case study of Gorgo del Ciliegio (Arezzo-Tuscany)
Neandertal camps and hyena dens. Living floor 150A at Grotta dei Santi (Monte Argentario, Tuscany, Italy)
Backdating systematic shell ornament making in Europe to 45,000 years ago
Neanderthal occupation during the tephra fall-out: Technical and hunting behaviours, sedimentology and settlement patterns in SU 14 of Oscurusciuto rock shelter (Ginosa, southern Italy)
Short and close in time: Overlapped occupation from the layer 56 of the Molare Rock shelter (Southern Italy)
Climbing the time to see Neanderthal behaviour's continuity and discontinuity: SU 11 of the Oscurusciuto Rockshelter (Ginosa, Southern Italy)
Middle Palaeolithic lithic tools: Techno-functional and use-wear analysis of target objects from SU 13 at the Oscurusciuto rock shelter, Southern Italy
The Oscurusciuto rock shelter (Ginosa, Puglia, southern Italy) is a Middle Palaeolithic site characterized by a significant stratigraphy made up by several anthropic levels. The stratigraphic unit 13, consisting of a sandy compact deposit mixed with pyroclastic sediment, is a short palimpsest situated on a layer of tephra, identified as Mt. Epomeo green tuff (dated Ar/Ar ~ 55 ka BP). From a technological point of view, the aims of the production …
Middle Palaeolithic technical behaviour: Material import-export and Levallois production at the SU 13 of Oscurusciuto rock shelter, Southern Italy
The Oscurusciuto rock shelter, located in southern Italy (Puglia), has yielded a long Middle Palaeolithic stratigraphy rich in lithic assemblages, fireplaces and faunal remains, attesting Neanderthal occupation during the MIS 3. This paper is focused on the stratigraphic unit 13, consisting of a sandy compact deposit mixed with pyroclastic sediment above a thick level of tephra-US 14, identified as Mt. Epomeo green tuff (dated Ar/Ar ~ 55 ka).Leve…
A spotted hyaena den in the Middle Palaeolithic of Grotta Paglicci (Gargano promontory, Apulia, Southern Italy)
Between hearths and volcanic ash: The SU 13 palimpsest of the Oscurusciuto rock shelter (Ginosa – Southern Italy): Analytical and interpretative questions
Between hearths and volcanic ash: The SU 13 palimpsest of the Oscurusciuto rock shelter (Ginosa – Southern Italy): Analytical and interpretative questions
Climbing the time to see Neanderthal behaviour's continuity and discontinuity: SU 11 of the Oscurusciuto Rockshelter (Ginosa, Southern Italy)
Backdating systematic shell ornament making in Europe to 45,000 years ago
Short and close in time: Overlapped occupation from the layer 56 of the Molare Rock shelter (Southern Italy)
Middle Palaeolithic technical behaviour: Material import-export and Levallois production at the SU 13 of Oscurusciuto rock shelter, Southern Italy
The Oscurusciuto rock shelter, located in southern Italy (Puglia), has yielded a long Middle Palaeolithic stratigraphy rich in lithic assemblages, fireplaces and faunal remains, attesting Neanderthal occupation during the MIS 3. This paper is focused on the stratigraphic unit 13, consisting of a sandy compact deposit mixed with pyroclastic sediment above a thick level of tephra-US 14, identified as Mt. Epomeo green tuff (dated Ar/Ar ~ 55 ka).Leve…
A spotted hyaena den in the Middle Palaeolithic of Grotta Paglicci (Gargano promontory, Apulia, Southern Italy)
Neanderthal occupation during the tephra fall-out: Technical and hunting behaviours, sedimentology and settlement patterns in SU 14 of Oscurusciuto rock shelter (Ginosa, southern Italy)
Middle Palaeolithic lithic tools: Techno-functional and use-wear analysis of target objects from SU 13 at the Oscurusciuto rock shelter, Southern Italy
The Oscurusciuto rock shelter (Ginosa, Puglia, southern Italy) is a Middle Palaeolithic site characterized by a significant stratigraphy made up by several anthropic levels. The stratigraphic unit 13, consisting of a sandy compact deposit mixed with pyroclastic sediment, is a short palimpsest situated on a layer of tephra, identified as Mt. Epomeo green tuff (dated Ar/Ar ~ 55 ka BP). From a technological point of view, the aims of the production …
Less is more! Uluzzian technical behaviour at the cave site of Castelcivita (southern Italy)
From settlement patterns to memory of place among Holocene hunter-gatherers at Sai Island, Middle Nile Valley
Persistent places are the locations where people aggregate, utilise and reuse natural or built features and develop their social identities and interactions. A network of persistent places forms interconnected persistent settlement patterns, which create a humanly made or storied landscape with a shared community-based memory of place. Although it has been demonstrated that persistent settlement patterns long preceded the onset of Neolithic farmi…
Environment and hunting territories for Late Neanderthals in central Italy: New palaeoecological data from Grotta dei Santi (Monte Argentario – Tuscany, Italy)
The Mousterian sequence of Grotta dei Santi (central Italy) is dated to MIS 3. • Palynological study of hyaena coprolites reconstruct the vegetation landscapes. • The Late Pleistocene vegetation in the Grotta dei Santi shows temperate climatic conditions. • The regional pollen comparison constrained the Neanderthal presence in the GI-12. • Neanderthals did not abandoned the cave and the surrounding area for environmental stress. The Italian penin…
The palaeoenvironmental context of MIS 3 and the use of plants by Neanderthal groups in southern Italy: Results from the Riparo l’Oscurusciuto site
Phytolith and pollen allow reconstruction of vegetation over 12,200 ka. • Vegetation is shifting from forests to open areas along the studied sequence. • Siliceous aqueous microremains indicates moisture conditions within the site. • Use of Poaceae plants and ash scattering revealed by study of sediments and hearths. • High phytolith dissolution is due to calcium carbonate rich sediments. Neanderthal populations occupied caves and rockshelters ac…
Middle and early upper Pleistocene human occupations in Southern Italy. A reassessment of the assemblages from Cala d’Arconte, Capo Grosso and Cala Bianca
Between hearths and volcanic ash: The SU 13 palimpsest of the Oscurusciuto rock shelter (Ginosa – Southern Italy): Analytical and interpretative questions
Middle Palaeolithic technical behaviour: Material import-export and Levallois production at the SU 13 of Oscurusciuto rock shelter, Southern Italy
The Oscurusciuto rock shelter, located in southern Italy (Puglia), has yielded a long Middle Palaeolithic stratigraphy rich in lithic assemblages, fireplaces and faunal remains, attesting Neanderthal occupation during the MIS 3. This paper is focused on the stratigraphic unit 13, consisting of a sandy compact deposit mixed with pyroclastic sediment above a thick level of tephra-US 14, identified as Mt. Epomeo green tuff (dated Ar/Ar ~ 55 ka).Leve…
A spotted hyaena den in the Middle Palaeolithic of Grotta Paglicci (Gargano promontory, Apulia, Southern Italy)
Middle Palaeolithic lithic tools: Techno-functional and use-wear analysis of target objects from SU 13 at the Oscurusciuto rock shelter, Southern Italy
The Oscurusciuto rock shelter (Ginosa, Puglia, southern Italy) is a Middle Palaeolithic site characterized by a significant stratigraphy made up by several anthropic levels. The stratigraphic unit 13, consisting of a sandy compact deposit mixed with pyroclastic sediment, is a short palimpsest situated on a layer of tephra, identified as Mt. Epomeo green tuff (dated Ar/Ar ~ 55 ka BP). From a technological point of view, the aims of the production …
Settlement, space organization and land-use of a small Middle Bronze Age community of central Italy. The case study of Gorgo del Ciliegio (Arezzo-Tuscany)
Neandertal camps and hyena dens. Living floor 150A at Grotta dei Santi (Monte Argentario, Tuscany, Italy)
Backdating systematic shell ornament making in Europe to 45,000 years ago
Neanderthal occupation during the tephra fall-out: Technical and hunting behaviours, sedimentology and settlement patterns in SU 14 of Oscurusciuto rock shelter (Ginosa, southern Italy)
Short and close in time: Overlapped occupation from the layer 56 of the Molare Rock shelter (Southern Italy)
Climbing the time to see Neanderthal behaviour's continuity and discontinuity: SU 11 of the Oscurusciuto Rockshelter (Ginosa, Southern Italy)
Middle and early upper Pleistocene human occupations in Southern Italy. A reassessment of the assemblages from Cala d’Arconte, Capo Grosso and Cala Bianca
Less is more! Uluzzian technical behaviour at the cave site of Castelcivita (southern Italy)
From settlement patterns to memory of place among Holocene hunter-gatherers at Sai Island, Middle Nile Valley
Persistent places are the locations where people aggregate, utilise and reuse natural or built features and develop their social identities and interactions. A network of persistent places forms interconnected persistent settlement patterns, which create a humanly made or storied landscape with a shared community-based memory of place. Although it has been demonstrated that persistent settlement patterns long preceded the onset of Neolithic farmi…
Environment and hunting territories for Late Neanderthals in central Italy: New palaeoecological data from Grotta dei Santi (Monte Argentario – Tuscany, Italy)
The Mousterian sequence of Grotta dei Santi (central Italy) is dated to MIS 3. • Palynological study of hyaena coprolites reconstruct the vegetation landscapes. • The Late Pleistocene vegetation in the Grotta dei Santi shows temperate climatic conditions. • The regional pollen comparison constrained the Neanderthal presence in the GI-12. • Neanderthals did not abandoned the cave and the surrounding area for environmental stress. The Italian penin…
The palaeoenvironmental context of MIS 3 and the use of plants by Neanderthal groups in southern Italy: Results from the Riparo l’Oscurusciuto site
Phytolith and pollen allow reconstruction of vegetation over 12,200 ka. • Vegetation is shifting from forests to open areas along the studied sequence. • Siliceous aqueous microremains indicates moisture conditions within the site. • Use of Poaceae plants and ash scattering revealed by study of sediments and hearths. • High phytolith dissolution is due to calcium carbonate rich sediments. Neanderthal populations occupied caves and rockshelters ac…
Flexible Late Mousterian lithic technological organisation at Riparo l’Oscurusciuto (Italy): A typo-technological and 3D-based approach
The portion of the Riparo l’Oscurusciuto (Italy) stratigraphic sequence so far excavated provides an outstanding record of the local population history between ca. 55 − 42 kya BP: a key period for understanding the end of the Middle Palaeolithic and the onset of the Upper Palaeolithic on a regional level. Previous studies focusing on the settlement pattern, the spatial organisation, and the lithic technology within the lower part of the exposed l…
Faunal Evidence and the Duration of Occupation: A Statistical Approach to Neanderthal Archaeological Sites
The duration of Neanderthal occupations of caves and rock shelters is one of the most debated issues in prehistoric archaeology. Several disciplines, including lithic analysis, micromorphology, zooarchaeology, taphonomy, and spatial archaeology, have proposed criteria to estimate occupation length, but their reliability varies. This study focuses only on indicators derived from faunal assemblages and evaluates their effectiveness through statisti…
Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology (16 works) · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (15 works) · Archaeology (14 works) · Geography (14 works) · Geology (11 works) · Paleontology (10 works) · Mousterian (8 works) · Cave (7 works) · Neanderthal (7 works) · Taphonomy (7 works)