The use of bones as tools in Late Lower Paleolithic of Central Italy.
Bone flakes
Bone tools
Experimental protocol
Italian Peninsula
Lower Paleolithic
Use-wear
Journal
Scientific reports
ISSN: 2045-2322
Titre abrégé: Sci Rep
Pays: England
ID NLM: 101563288
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
22 May 2024
22 May 2024
Historique:
received:
07
02
2024
accepted:
20
05
2024
medline:
23
5
2024
pubmed:
23
5
2024
entrez:
22
5
2024
Statut:
epublish
Résumé
The Latium area in Italy has yielded rich evidence of Lower Paleolithic sites with both faunal remains, artefacts, and human fossil remains, such as the Ceprano human skull. Many are the sites where lithic industry has been found in association with bone industry. Medium and large animals were a key resource because they provided an enormous amount of meat and fat. However, they were extensively exploited for their bones, rich in marrow, and as raw material for tool production. Bone tools are so far few documented for early period of time and especially for the Middle Pleistocene in Western Europe. We report here evidence of bone tools and their efficiency of use for hominin groups living in the Frosinone-Ceprano basin during the MIS 11/10, a key period which records behavioral innovations and onset of the Neanderthal behaviors. In three sites, Isoletta, Colle Avarone and Selvotta, several bone tools and bone flakes have been discovered (MIS 11/10). They were associated to stone artefacts part of the hominins tool-kit. Technological and use-wear analyses conducted on these bone industries, dated between 410 and 430 ka, yield relevant results to understand the effectiveness of the bones tools found associated with lithic series, including handaxes.
Identifiants
pubmed: 38778167
doi: 10.1038/s41598-024-62612-z
pii: 10.1038/s41598-024-62612-z
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Journal Article
Historical Article
Langues
eng
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Organisme : Neandroots project
ID : ANR-19-CE27-0011-01
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