Dermestid pupal chambers on Late Pleistocene faunal bones from Cava Muracci (Cisterna di Latina, central Italy): Environmental implications for the central Mediterranean basin during MIS 3
| Autor: | Anna Neri, Marco Doddi, Daniel Martín-Vega, Mario Federico Rolfo, Maurizio Gatta, Germano Scevola, Leonardo Salari, Eileen Jacob, Federica Valentini |
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| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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Archeology
geography geography.geographical_feature_category Cave hyena Pleistocene biology Dermestid beetles Middle-Upper Palaeolithic Bone taphonomy Archaeoentomology Ichnology Karst medicine.disease_cause biology.organism_classification Mediterranean Basin Archaeology Settore MED/44 Italy Cave Pollen medicine Pontine Plain Mammal Faunal assemblage |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports. 35:102780 |
| ISSN: | 2352-409X |
| Popis: | Cava Muracci (Cisterna di Latina, central Italy) is a complex of seven karst caves located in the Pontine Plain region. One of them, denominate Area 3, displayed a well-preserved Late Pleistocene deposit dating from 35 ka BP and older containing abundant mammal remains and cave hyena coprolites. This work presents the recent discovery from this deposit of fossil bones exposing dermestid pupal chambers and the opportunity these offered to support and improve, with high-resolution inferences, a previous environmental reconstruction based on faunal assemblage and pollen from coprolites. Moreover, ichnological analyses also shed light on some of the post-depositional agents which affected remains within the cave. This paper encourages the valuable support of palaeoichnology, a little exploited and undervalued discipline, to archaeological and palaeoenvironmental studies. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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