MICHAEL BUCKLEY

Human adaptation to climatic variations is being discussed at different scales and from diverse perspectives and specializations in Paleolithic archaeology. We suggest examining human mobility on the local scale through the faunal record to better understand human-environmental interactions during the early dispersal of anatomically modern...

Nous présentons des résultats préliminaires des dernières fouilles ayant eu lieu entre 2015 et 2022 dans les couches du Moustérien tardif et du Protoaurignacien au Riparo Bombrini (Balzi Rossi, Ligurie, Italie). Le site est présenté dans son contexte physique et historique et un aperçu des principales découvertes est détaillé. En particulier,...

Faunal remains play an important role in helping reconstruct Palaeolithic hunter-gatherer subsistence and mobility strategies. However, differential bone preservation is an issue in southern European prehistoric sites, which often makes morphological identification impossible. Zooarchaeology by Mass Spectrometry (ZooMS) is a new, low-cost...

Faunal remains from archaeological sites allow for the identification of animal species that enables the better understanding of the relationships between humans and animals, not only from their morphological information, but also from the ancient biomolecules (lipids, proteins, and DNA) preserved in these remains for thousands and even...

The evolution and development of human mortuary behaviors is of enormous cultural significance. Here we report a richly‐decorated young infant burial (AVH‐1) from Arma Veirana (Liguria, northwestern Italy) that is directly dated to 10,211–9910 cal BP (95.4% probability), placing it within the early Holocene and therefore attributable to the...