Niccolò Mazzucco
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 634836 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Niccolò Mazzucco |
| NOMBRES | Niccolò |
| APELLIDO | Mazzucco |
| FIRMA | MAZZUCCO N |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Pisa |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9315-3625 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 55 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 61 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 55 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2014 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
Polished stone adzes and axes from the early Neolithic lakeshore site of La Marmotta (Italy)
A New Method for Estimating Prehistoric Agricultural Productivity Through the Microtextural Analysis of Harvesting Tools
Reassessing the Early Neolithic Chronology of La Marmotta lakeshore settlement (Lake Bracciano, Anguillara Sabazia, Italy)
La Marmotta is one of the best-preserved Early Neolithic lakeshore settlements in the Mediterranean, yet its chronology has remained poorly defined. Previous interpretations relied mainly on decoration-based ceramic classifications and a limited radiocarbon dataset, hindering our understanding of the site’s occupational dynamics and its role in the wider European Neolithic. This study presents a revised chronological framework grounded in 35 radi…
Technological and functional analyses of late Mesolithic and early Neolithic lithic assemblages from Riparo Gaban (Trento, Italy)
The transition between the last Mesolithic hunter-gatherers and the first agropastoral Neolithic communities is a highly debated topic in prehistoric archaeology. Riparo Gaban (Northeast Italy) is a key site to unravel this fundamental turning point in human history because it is one of the few archaeological contexts in Mediterranean Europe where occupations from both periods are stratigraphically recorded. This study focuses on understanding th…
The lacustrine settlement of Dispilio (Lake Kastoria, Northern Greece)
A quantitative approach to decoding pottery technology
Leaning on to rise up
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What doesn't meet the eye
NeoNet Atlantic. Radiocarbon Dates for the Late Mesolithic/Early Neolithic Transition in the Southern European Atlantic Coast
NeoNet Atlantic dataset complements the NeoNet Mediterranean dataset by providing new curated radiocarbon dates for the study of the pioneer farming front (i.e. Neolithisation, ca. 7500 to 3500 cal BC) in the Southern European Atlantic Coast river basin (Portugal, Western Spain, Southwestern France). The complete dataset is formed by the id00164_doc_elencoc14.tsv file, a data frame with tab-separated values, and a related dataframe: id00164_doc_t…
A traceological and quantitative assessment of the function of the bone bi-pointed tools from the Late Neolithic of the Cueva del Toro (Antequera, Malaga)
Plant processing and grinding tools from the early Neolithic settlement of La Marmotta, Italy
Use-wear evidence for the use of threshing sledges in Neolithic Greece
Threshing sledge or tribulum represents an important innovation in agricultural techniques. It allows processing huge amounts of cereals and it has often associated to an increased agricultural production. Their use is attested during the Late Neolithic/Chalcolithic and Early Bronze Age both in south-western Asia and Europe. In the Mediterranean area, their use lasted until few decades ago. Recently, as part of project focused on the analysis of …
Pollen analysis of neolithic adhesives and comparative experimental archaeology
Le site épipaléolithique de Pakhtomena (Armenokhori)
1. La mission 2019-2022 dans son contexte historique : continuités, renouvellements, perspectives \n1.1.Bref historique de la Mission Néolithisation de 2009 à 2021 \n1.2. À la recherche de l’Épipaléolithique et du PPNA ancien de Chypre \n2. Résultats de la campagne de fouille à Pakhtomena (mai 2022) \n2.1. Logistique, stratégie et méthodes \n2.2. Le secteur TD2: Stratigraphie et pédogénèse; Le dispositif de pierres St 200‐204 \n2.3. Le secteur ce…
The use of long blades and projectile points in the Western Mediterranean. Examples from the domestic and funerary sphere
The lithic instruments from periods of recent prehistory, such as the Chalcolithic or the Bronze Age, have received scant attention from researchers. Only a few exceptional cases, such as large flakes or daggers found in funerary contexts, have been analyzed, mainly from a morphological perspective. In this study, we have compiled information from over a decade of analysis on instruments documented in burials and domestic structures in the northe…
Textiles, basketry and cordage from the Early Neolithic settlement of La Marmotta, Lazio
Archaeological investigation of Circum-Alpine lake, or pile, dwellings has afforded unprecedented insight into Neolithic and Bronze Age societies. The discovery in 1989 of a submerged settlement near Rome added an early (eighth millennium BP) geographical outlier to this distribution. Two decades of excavation at La Marmotta have identified more than a dozen dwellings and an enormous assemblage of organic remains. Here, the authors present an ove…
Interlinking research
The Big Exchange project investigates large-scale exchange systems in Eurasia and Africa (8000-1 BC). We concentrate on raw materials of known origin ('sourced finds'). Network analysis of tools and artificial intelligence methods are used to analyse the combined data sets. We invite broad collaboration on bimodal exchange networks
NeoNet Dataset. Radiocarbon Dates for the Late Mesolithic/Early Neolithic Transition in the North Central-Western Mediterranean Basin
The NeoNet dataset aims to provide a new research tool for the study of the pioneer farming front (i.e. Neolithisation) in the North Central and North Western Mediterranean basin by focusing on the period of transition from a foraging to a farming economy (ca. 7000 to 3500 cal BC). The complete dataset is formed by the elencoc14.tsv file, a dataframe with tab-separated values, and a connex dataframe: thesaurus.tsv. The dataset contains 2,506 radi…
From Anatolia to Algarve
The introduction and spread of the Neolithic “way of life” in Europe was a process that took several millennia, followed by different rhythms and displayed singularities in each geographic area. It was therefore a very complex phenomenon that, despite highly significant advances in research in recent decades, is yet to be fully understood. To deepen our understanding of the very early stages of the introduction of herding and agriculture througho…
The spread of agriculture in south-eastern Europe
North Macedonia is a crucial region for understanding the spread of agriculture into the Mediterranean and Central Europe. To date, however, the area has been subject to relatively limited archaeological research. Here, the authors present use-wear and archaeobotanical analyses on material from two Neolithic sites, Govrelevo and Vrbjanska Čuka, to investigate practices that were previously unstudied in this part of the Balkans, such as sowing, cu…
Análisis tecno-morfológico y funcional de instrumentos líticos tallados de La Atalaya (Muñopepe, Ávila)
Se presentan los resultados del estudio tecno-morfológico y traceológico realizado sobre un conjunto de piezas líticas talladas de la ocupación neolítica de La Atalaya (Muñopepe, Ávila). Este trabajo constituye la primera caracterización del utillaje lítico tallado de las más tempranas comunidades productoras del valle Amblés, un espacio localizado en las estribaciones septentrionales de la Sierra de Gredos para el que apenas existen datos al res…
Stones that Made Food. A Lithic Viewpoint on Food Production Practices in the Early Mediterranean Neolithic
Food gathering and production are daily and fundamental activities for the reproduction and development of human societies, now and in the past. Food practices are deeply embedded in social, cultural, environmental and technological settings. During prehistory, for example, the most important changes in lithic technology were linked to the appearance of new techniques for obtaining food: more effective, requiring less time and fewer raw materials…
Afterword
The diversity of food practices among the first Mediterranean farmers is expressed in the range of food resources exploited, which includes a wide range of domesticated and wild animals and plants from the marine and terrestrial worlds. However, it can also be observed in the ways of producing, procuring, storing, preparing and consuming foodstuffs, which are made according to a wide range of gestures. Far from being static and homogeneous, the f…
Highlighting the Diversity of Food Practices in the First Mediterranean Farming Societies
As new discoveries are made, the diet of the earliest agro-pastoral communities of the Mediterranean, which was initially seen as homogeneous, is revealed to be increasingly varied. However, diversity in the Neolithic food practices remains difficult to grasp because of the scarcity of large-scale diachronic and synchronic syntheses published on food remains (faunal and botanical remains), human bones (teeth lesions), kitchen utensils (ceramic an…
Firewood-gathering strategies in high mountain areas of the Parc Nacional d’Aigüestortes i Estany de Sant Maurici (Central Pyrenees) during Prehistory
Sickle gloss texture analysis elucidates long-term change in plant harvesting during the transition to agriculture
Archaeobotanical and genetic analysis of modern plant materials are drawing a complex scenario for the origins of cereal agriculture in the Levant. This paper presents an improved method for the study of early farming harvesting systems based on the texture analysis of gloss observed on sickle blades through confocal microscopy. Using this method, we identify different plant harvesting activities (unripe, semi-ripe and ripe cereal reaping and ree…
Lost in the mountains? The Cova del Sardo and the Neolithisation of the Southern Central Pyrenees (fifth-third mill. cal bc)
La alta montaña durante la Prehistoria
Este artículo presenta los resultados de las campañas realizadas desde 2001 a 2010 en áreas de alta montaña del Pirineo axial occidental de Catalunya, que han generado unos registros arqueológicos extensos y detallados, así como diversos análisis paleoecológicos de turberas y contextos lacustres. Gracias a las 27 fechas radiocarbónicas obtenidas, se documenta la secuencia del poblamiento prehistórico en medios alpinos y subalpinos desde las prime…
Textiles, basketry and cordage from the Early Neolithic settlement of La Marmotta, Lazio
Archaeological investigation of Circum-Alpine lake, or pile, dwellings has afforded unprecedented insight into Neolithic and Bronze Age societies. The discovery in 1989 of a submerged settlement near Rome added an early (eighth millennium BP) geographical outlier to this distribution. Two decades of excavation at La Marmotta have identified more than a dozen dwellings and an enormous assemblage of organic remains. Here, the authors present an ove…
Insights into the economic organization of the first agro-pastoral communities of the NE of the Iberian Peninsula
The Occupation of Benzú Cave (Ceuta) by Neolithic and Bronze Age Societies
The first farming communities in the Southwest European Coast
Reconstructing Harvesting Technologies through the Analysis of Sickle Blades
The study of the crop-harvesting technology of the first groups of farmers can notably contribute to the debate on the expansion of agriculture in the Central Mediterranean. The traceological analysis of so-called “sickle blades” represents a valuable proxy for studying the emergence of harvesting technologies during Early Neolithic and their geographic variability. Use-wear traces allow to reconstruct the way in which the tool was used, the type…
Revisión radiocarbónica y cronocultural del Neolítico antiguo de la Balma Margineda (Aixovall, Andorra)
En este trabajo se presentan y evalúan las 10 dataciones disponibles para los niveles neolíticos de la Balma Margineda (Andorra). Después de analizar la naturaleza de las muestras y sus contextos arqueoestratigráficos de procedencia, consideramos que únicamente tres de ellas, realizadas recientemente, son aceptables. Éstas confieren una horquilla mucho más rejuvenecida de la ocupación de la que se proponía en base a las dataciones antiguas. En es…
Leaning on to rise up
International audience
Pollen analysis of neolithic adhesives and comparative experimental archaeology
The Early and Middle Holocene Lithic Industries of Ifri n’Etsedda (Eastern Rif, Morocco)
Archaeological research has been carried out in the Eastern Rif (Morocco) since 1995 by a collaborative Moroccan-German research team. A major topic of the project is the transition from hunting-gathering to food production and related cultural developments. Innovations such as pottery and domesticated species appeared around 7.6 ka calBP. The cultivation of cereals and pulses is evident at that time. Two of the most important sites in the area a…
Instrumentos para siega y procesado de plantas desde el Calcolítico al Bronce antiguo de Chibanes (Palmela, Portugal)
El análisis funcional ha reconocido rastros de uso en artefactos de sílex (foicinhas) que caracterizan la identidad socio-cultural del III milenio cal BC en la Estremadura portuguesa. Esos artefactos tienen rasgos tecnológicos y tipológicos específicos y su funcionalidad ha sido discutida durante mucho tiempo sin resultados positivos. El presente estudio funcional permitió su clasificación como elementos de hoz, proporcionando información sobre l…
From Anatolia to Algarve
The introduction and spread of the Neolithic “way of life” in Europe was a process that took several millennia, followed by different rhythms and displayed singularities in each geographic area. It was therefore a very complex phenomenon that, despite highly significant advances in research in recent decades, is yet to be fully understood. To deepen our understanding of the very early stages of the introduction of herding and agriculture througho…
The Early Neolithic tell of Vrbjanska Čuka in Pelagonia
Vrbjanska Čuka is a tell site in the region of Pelagonia (Macedonia) established 8000 years ago by the Neolithic communities. Later it was used as an agricultural unit during the Roman era and the Middle Ages when it was also employed as a burial area. The excavations performed in the 1980s and during the last five years indicate a Neolithic farming society that constructed large buildings made of daub in a settlement enclosed by a circular ditch…
Harvest time
Neolithic societies were defined by the development of agricultural economies not only because part of their diet was obtained from cultivated plants, but also because crop-husbandry practices strongly affected people's lifestyles in a variety of ways. It is therefore unsurprising that the development and diffusion of agriculture can be studied from diverse perspectives and with different approaches, by analysing, for example, the macro- and micr…
La nécropole néolithique de la Feixa del Moro (Juberri, Andorre)
Au début des années 1980, sur un versant des vallées andorranes, un ensemble d’interventions archéologiques réalisées par l’ancien «Servei d’Investigacions Arqueológiques del Patrimoni Artístic Nacional d’Andorra » permit de documenter le site de la Feixa del Moro. En contrebas de terrasses abandonnées, dans une zone de haute montagne, plusieurs structures d’habitat et d’inhumation furent découvertes, situées chronologiquement entre le Néolithiqu…
Instrumentos para siega y procesado de plantas desde el Calcolítico al Bronce antiguo de Chibanes (Palmela, Portugal)
El análisis funcional ha reconocido rastros de uso en artefactos de sílex (foicinhas) que caracterizan la identidad socio-cultural del III milenio cal BC en la Estremadura portuguesa. Esos artefactos tienen rasgos tecnológicos y tipológicos específicos y su funcionalidad ha sido discutida durante mucho tiempo sin resultados positivos. El presente estudio funcional permitió su clasificación como elementos de hoz, proporcionando información sobre l…
La alta montaña durante la Prehistoria
Este artículo presenta los resultados de las campañas realizadas desde 2001 a 2010 en áreas de alta montaña del Pirineo axial occidental de Catalunya, que han generado unos registros arqueológicos extensos y detallados, así como diversos análisis paleoecológicos de turberas y contextos lacustres. Gracias a las 27 fechas radiocarbónicas obtenidas, se documenta la secuencia del poblamiento prehistórico en medios alpinos y subalpinos desde las prime…
Macro and Micro Evidences from the Past
Conociendo la función del utillaje lítico tallado
Getting to know the function of the flaked stone tools: Twenty-five years of use-wear analysis on the Neolithic assemblages of the NE of the Iberian PeninsulaThis paper deals with the functionality of the flaked stone assemblages from several Neolithic sites of the NE of the Iberian Peninsula. The chronological framework ranges from the mid-6th to the mid-4th millennium cal. BCE, which corresponds to the Early and Middle Neolithic. This long peri…
Insights into the economic organization of the first agro-pastoral communities of the NE of the Iberian Peninsula
Del medio natural a los paisajes pastorales. Ocupación de las zonas de alta montaña en los Pirineos centrales de Cataluña desde el Mesolítico a la Edad del Bronce (c. 9000-1000 cal ANE)
En este artculo presentamos los resultados de los trabajos de investigacin arqueolgica y paleoambiental llevados a cabo entre 2000 y 2014 en el Parque Nacional de Aigestortes i Estany de Sant Maurici (PNAESM) y en su rea perifrica. Dichos trabajos comprenden la prospeccin sistemtica de la mayor parte del territorio, entre 1500 y 3000 m de altitud, que ha permitido documentar 350 sitios arqueolgicos, proporcionando 78 dataciones radiocarbnicas que…
Ocupaciones de montaña en el marco de los primeros grupos agro-pastorales del Pirineo Central en el VI-V milenio cal ANE
En este trabajo vamos a realizar una revisin de las evidencias disponibles sobre las primeras ocupaciones de las zonas de media y alta montaa del Pirinceo Central por parte de grupos agro-pastorales. En particular, nos vamos a fijar sobre dos practicas economicas relevantes: la caza y el cutlivo de cereales. Nuestro objectivo es entender el rol que estas dos actividades tuvieron dentro del sistema econmico de los primeros pobladores neolticos y c…
Surface surveying in high mountain areas, is it possible? Some methodological considerations
La nécropole néolithique de la Feixa del Moro (Juberri, Andorre)
Au début des années 1980, sur un versant des vallées andorranes, un ensemble d’interventions archéologiques réalisées par l’ancien «Servei d’Investigacions Arqueológiques del Patrimoni Artístic Nacional d’Andorra » permit de documenter le site de la Feixa del Moro. En contrebas de terrasses abandonnées, dans une zone de haute montagne, plusieurs structures d’habitat et d’inhumation furent découvertes, situées chronologiquement entre le Néolithiqu…
Reconstructing Harvesting Technologies through the Analysis of Sickle Blades
The study of the crop-harvesting technology of the first groups of farmers can notably contribute to the debate on the expansion of agriculture in the Central Mediterranean. The traceological analysis of so-called “sickle blades” represents a valuable proxy for studying the emergence of harvesting technologies during Early Neolithic and their geographic variability. Use-wear traces allow to reconstruct the way in which the tool was used, the type…
Revisión radiocarbónica y cronocultural del Neolítico antiguo de la Balma Margineda (Aixovall, Andorra)
En este trabajo se presentan y evalúan las 10 dataciones disponibles para los niveles neolíticos de la Balma Margineda (Andorra). Después de analizar la naturaleza de las muestras y sus contextos arqueoestratigráficos de procedencia, consideramos que únicamente tres de ellas, realizadas recientemente, son aceptables. Éstas confieren una horquilla mucho más rejuvenecida de la ocupación de la que se proponía en base a las dataciones antiguas. En es…
The first farming communities in the Southwest European Coast
Paths and Rhythms in the Spread of Agriculture in the Western Mediterranean
Harvest time
Neolithic societies were defined by the development of agricultural economies not only because part of their diet was obtained from cultivated plants, but also because crop-husbandry practices strongly affected people's lifestyles in a variety of ways. It is therefore unsurprising that the development and diffusion of agriculture can be studied from diverse perspectives and with different approaches, by analysing, for example, the macro- and micr…
Primeros resultados sobre la función del utillaje lítico de las primeras comunidades neolíticas asentadas en Les Guixeres de Vilobí (Sant Martí Sarroca, Barcelona)
Entendemos que el reconocimiento de la función de los instrumentos líticos puede aproximarnos a las actividades que realizaban las primeras comunidades neolíticas que se asentaron en el noreste de la Península Ibérica. Uno de los contextos donde poder abordar tales cuestiones es el yacimiento al aire libre de Les Guixeres de Vilobí. Perteneciente al neolítico antiguo, es uno de los pocos asentamientos de este periodo con estructuras internas y un…
The time is ripe for a change. The evolution of harvesting technologies in Central Dalmatia during the Neolithic period (6th millennium cal BC)
The beginning of the Neolithic in the Po Plain (northern Italy)
The Neolithic expansion in the Western Mediterranean
Harvesting tools and the spread of the Neolithic into the Central-Western Mediterranean area
A palaeoeconomic perspective on the Early Neolithic lithic assemblages of the N–NE of the Iberian Peninsula
The Occupation of Benzú Cave (Ceuta) by Neolithic and Bronze Age Societies
Lost in the mountains? The Cova del Sardo and the Neolithisation of the Southern Central Pyrenees (fifth-third mill. cal bc)
Early Neolithic Settlement of the Po Plain (Northern Italy)
Around the mid-19th century, several groups of archaeologists active in northern Italy discovered a few sites characterized by the presence of ‘hut-floors’ or ‘pit-dwellings’ (fondi di capanna), which they attributed to a well-defined period of their Stone Age sequence. Research in the central Po Plain of Lombardy was resumed in the 1970s, allowing one to attribute some of the older discoveries to the Early Neolithic Vhò cultural aspect. The scop…
Fish resource exploitation in the southern Atlantic coast of the Iberian Peninsula
Approaching surface treatment in prehistoric pottery
Geography (49 obras) · Archaeology (42 obras) · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies (36 obras) · Archaeological and Geological Studies (26 obras) · Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology (20 obras) · Agriculture (16 obras) · Archaeological and Historical Studies (13 obras) · Art (13 obras) · Prehistory (13 obras) · Mediterranean climate (12 obras)