A New Cultural Frontier for the Last Neanderthals
The Uluzzian in Northern Italy
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2220591 |
|---|---|
| Authors | M Peresani (0000-0001-6562-6336, University of Ferrara, corresponding author), Peresani (corresponding author), Peresani Peresani (University of Ferrara, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2008 |
| Volume | 49 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 725-731 |
| Publication date | 2008-08-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Current Anthropology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0011-3204 • E-ISSN: 1537-5382 |
| Publisher | University of Chicago Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.2307/20142700 |
| OpenAlex | W3142882610 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 36 |
| References cited | 17 |
The Middle-Upper Paleolithic shift was a crucial event intimately involved in Neanderthal biogeography and the patchy scenario that emerges from the last marked cultural and behavioral evolution our extinct relatives underwent during the interval 50-30 k.yr. BP. In Mediterranean Europe, this behavior, considered modern, gave rise to the Uluzzian, a cultural complex confined to central-southern Italy and Greece as a consequence of the supposed retreat of archaic humans in the face of the rapid diffusion of Homo sapiens. The recent discovery of dwelling structures and lithic implements at Fumane Cave in northeastern Italy redraws this scenario and depicts at 33.4 k.yr. BP the northernmost frontier to which the Uluzzian spread around the Great Adriatic Plain, a pivotal region near the western edge of the Middle Danube basin, where the last Neanderthals were using very different cultural items
Archaeology · Biological evolution · Biology · Cave · Frontier · Geography · Hominidae · Homo sapiens · Middle Paleolithic · Mousterian · Neanderthal · Upper Paleolithic · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies · Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Studies · Geology · Paleontology · Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology
Problems with radiocarbon dating the Middle to Upper Palaeolithic transition in Italy
The modern human colonization of western Eurasia
The spread of modern humans in Europe
The makers of the Protoaurignacian and implications for Neandertal extinction
The End of the Middle Paleolithic in the Italian Alps
What Is a ‘Transitional’ Industry? The Uluzzian of Southern Italy as a Case Study
Animal Exploitation Strategies during the Uluzzian at Grotta di Fumane (Verona, Italy)
La frontière entre le Châtelperronien et l’Uluzzien
Le Protoaurignacien de la Grotte La Fabbrica (Grosseto, Italie) dans le contexte de l’arc nord méditerranéen
Age of the final Middle Palaeolithic and Uluzzian levels at Fumane Cave, Northern Italy, using 14C, ESR, 234U/230Th and thermoluminescence methods
New insights into Final Mousterian lithic production in western Italy
Recent discoveries of Aurignacian and Epigravettian sites in Albania
Crvena Stijena revisited
The Dating of a Middle Paleolithic Blade Industry in Southern Russia and Its Relationship to the Initial Upper Paleolithic
Did Neandertals and anatomically modern humans coexist in northern Italy during the late MIS 3
Preliminary reassessment of the Aurignacian in Banat (South-western Romania)
Living on the edge – A comparative approach for studying the beginning of the Aurignacian
Middle Palaeolithic subsistence in the Near East
The Neandertal bone industry at Chagyrskaya cave, Altai Region, Russia
Middle–Upper Palaeolithic transition in Southern Italy
The ungulate assemblage from layer A9 at Grotta di Fumane, Italy
Uluzzian bone technology and its implications for the origin of behavioural modernity
Fifty thousand years of flint knapping and tool shaping across the Mousterian and Uluzzian sequence of Fumane cave
A Niche Construction Perspective on the Middle–Upper Paleolithic Transition in Italy
What roots for the Uluzzian? Modern behaviour in Central-Southern Italy and hypotheses on AMH dispersal routes
The significance of stratigraphic discontinuities in Iberian Middle-to-Upper Palaeolithic transitional sites
Compatible ecological niche signals between biological and archaeological datasets for late‐surviving Neandertals
The Middle Paleolithic of the Balkans
The Uluzzian technology of Grotta di Fumane and its implication for reconstructing cultural dynamics in the Middle–Upper Palaeolithic transition of Western Eurasia
Alternative Interpretations of the Middle/Upper Paleolithic Interface at Vindija Cave (Northwestern Croatia) in the Context of Central Europe and the Adriatic
Franchthi Cave revisited
On the chronology of the Uluzzian
New electron spin resonance (ESR) ages from Geißenklösterle Cave
Middle Paleolithic and Uluzzian human remains from Fumane Cave, Italy
The Uluzzian in the north of Italy
A late Neanderthal tooth from northeastern Italy
Neandertal extinction and the millennial scale climatic variability of OIS 3
Early modern humans from the Peştera Muierii, Baia de Fier, Romania
Modern human origins
Marine-derived 14C calibration and activity record for the past 50,000 years updated from the Cariaco Basin
Revised direct radiocarbon dating of the Vindija G 1 Upper Paleolithic Neandertals
La fin du Paléolithique moyen et le début du Paléolithique supérieur en Grèce
Radiocarbon Levels in the Iceland Sea from 25–53 kyr and their Link to the Earth's Magnetic Field Intensity
The Formation of the Aurignacian in Europe
Upper Paleolithic Occupation Levels and Late-Occurring Neandertal at Vindija Cave (Croatia) in the Context of Central Europe and the Balkans
The Middle/Upper Paleolithic interface and the relationship of Neanderthals and early modern humans in the Hrvatsko Zagorje, Croatia
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| Unique citing works | 36 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 2 |
| Citation span | 2008 - 2023 (16) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 36 |