ISABELLA SALVADOR

Based on the integration of laser scans, sedimentology, geochemistry, archeobotany,geometricmorphometrics and photogrammetry, here we present evidence testifying that aPalaeolithic group of people explored a deep cave in northern Italy about 14 ky cal. BP.Ichnological data enable us to shed light on individual and group level behavior, social...

The Bàsura Cave (Toirano, Savona, NW Italy) hosts important cave bear bone assemblages and a numerous and varied, tracks and traces record left by humans and other producers. An outstanding element of the analysed material is represented by fossil bear fur fragments, which were found in the inner deposits of the cave, and that, to date, are...

The Bàsura Cave (Toirano, NW Italy) became famous worldwide in 1950 for the discovery of prehisto...ric human footprints and of an impressive Ursus spelaeus bone deposit baptized by the first explorers "Cimitero degli Orsi" (Bear Cemetery). The bear remains belonging to the deeper layer of the deposit have been left in situ and nowadays are one...

The footprints of human and animal trackmakers, which around 12,000 years B.P. attended the Cave of Básura (Toirano, Liguria, Northern Italy), were studied through morpho-classificatory and morphometric approaches. First results indicate at least three different human producers, two youths and the third of tender age, bears and wolves (or...

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