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RADIOLARITE EXPLOITATION AND MANUFACTURING IN THE EMILIAN APENNINE DURING THE COPPER AGE: THE SITE OF RONCO DEL GATTO (BARDI, PARMA). This paper focuses mainly on the results of the more recent excavations at Ronco del Gatto, a quarry site in the Parmesan Apennine. At this site have come to light both radiolarite quarrying areas and related...

Many of the rarest prehistoric bones found by archaeologists are enormously precious and are considered to be part of our cultural and historical patrimony. Radiocarbon dating is a well-established technique that estimates the ages of bones by analysing the collagen still present. However, this method is destructive, and its use must be...

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Personal ornaments are widely viewed as indicators of social identity and person- hood. Ornaments are ubiquitous from the Late Pleistocene to the Holocene, but they are most often found as isolated objects within archaeological assemblages with- out direct evidence on how they were displayed. This article presents a detailed record of the...

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...