Teeth as tools to investigate Quaternary palaeoenvironments: the cave bear example. The One-year HABCOMM- @INQUA project on-going at #Ferrara in collaboration with @LJMU
5⃣The spatiotemporal fluctuations of the NPP vs. the subsistence strategies adopted by #Protoaurignacian groups in #Fumane and other Italian and European sites supports rapid #Homosapiens dispersal and resilience in a mosaic of environments that were affected by a #climatechanges
4⃣ The data indicates seasonal site occupations during late spring/summer where #ibex and #chamois were mostly exploited & captured in nearby areas
🌳 The whole faunal assemblage suggests the presence of #earlymodernhumans in a ❄️ environment with mostly open landscapes
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2⃣ New radiocarbon dates confirm an overlap between #Uluzzian and #Protoaurignacian occupations, around 42 and 41,000 cal BP
3⃣ Modern humans occupied the cave from Gl10 to GS9, the last level coinciding with the #HeinrichEvent4
📷 Aurélie Léone
👉🏽The northern part of Italy is one of the 1st European regions where early modern humans are documented
The research presents: 1⃣ the subsistence adopted by the #Protoaurignacian groups in two different levels in #GrottaDiFumane based on #archaeozoological and #taphonomic data
🙌🏽 The study is part of @Subsilience project and a key collaboration between @unican and @UniFerrara
📝 Co-authored by Ana B. Marín-Arroyo, Gabriele Terlato, @MarcoAVidalC and Marco Peresani
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