Archaeozoological evidence of subsistence strategies during the Gravettian at Riparo Mochi (Balzi Rossi, Ventimiglia, Imperia - Italy)

Human settlement and vegetation-climate relationships in the Greenland Stadial 5 at the Piovesello site (Northern Apennines, Italy)

“…The effects of Heinrich Event 3 on rock shelter deposits have also been suggested for the portion just below the middle part of unit D at Riparo Mochi, in the Balzi Rossi cliff. Here again, the faunal assemblage agrees with this assessment of cold and dry conditions and prevalence of Alpine grasslands in the middle parts of unit D (Tagliacozzo et al, 2011), leading to consider that unit E may correspond to the return to cold stadial conditions during GS5. Unit F, on the other hand, does not contain sufficient elements to distinguish traces of D/O cycles in it (Douka et al, 2012; Tagliacozzo et al, 2011).…”

Ancient DNA evidence of Iberian lynx palaeoendemism

“…It is therefore likely that this area (northern Italy and south-east France) as other central European areas served as glacial refugia for both the European rabbit and the Iberian lynx as it has been suggested for other temperate species (Deffontaine et al, 2005;Sommer and Nadachowski, 2006;Valdiosera et al, 2007; for a review see; Schmitt and Varga, 2012). The palaeontological records suggest that the Late Pleistocene distribution of the Iberian lynx extended as far as the European rabbit did (Bonifay, 1978;Kurt en and Granqvist, 1987;Tagliacozzo and Cassoli, 1993;Cassoli and Tagliacozzo, 1994;Valensi, 1994;Callou, 1995Callou, , 2002Fiore et al, 2004;Valensi and Psathi, 2004;L opez-Martinez, 2008;Tagliacozzo et al, 2011). During warmer periods, the expansion of Mediterranean vegetation favoured the European rabbit to occupy areas as far as southerncentral France and Italy (Callou, 1995(Callou, , 2002; L opez-Martínez, Fig.…”

Palaeoenvironment and palaeoclimate in the western Liguria region (northwestern Italy) during the Last Glacial. The small mammal sequence of Riparo Mochi (Balzi Rossi, Ventimiglia)

“…A more detailed study of the large mammals evidence coming from Unit D (Gravettian, 1959 Cardini's excavation) is presented in Zeppieri (2009), later summarized in Tagliacozzo et al (2012). The faunal remains from Unit D were divided into phases (from IV to I, from the bottom to top of the Unit) that have been associated with seasonality of several occupations; this subdivision should no longer be considered correct as it was established following the artificial stratigraphy defined by Cardini himself without any viable correlation with the geo-archaeological evidence (compare with Santaniello, 2016).…”