The genus Homo from Africa to Europe: Evolution of terrestrial ecosystems and dispersal routes

Quaternary International, 2012, vol. 267, Special Issue.
Guest Editors: Marco Mancini & Raffaele Sardella.
Editor in Chief: Prof. Norm Catto.

Introduction

This special issue of Quaternary International publishes part of the proceedings of the homonymous thematic session at the FIST Geoitalia 2009 Congress, held at Rimini (Italy) on September-10- 2009. The timing and the dispersal routes of the first humans peopling Europe during the Early Pleistocene are matters of an ongoing wide international debate. The Mediterranean region is a crucial area for this purpose, and the sites of the Italian peninsula provide important evidence for the stratigraphical, paleoenvironmental and biochronological data for the Early Pleistocene. Nine papers on a wide range of research topics (regional geology, paleogeography, prehistoric archaeology and palaeontology) are collected within this volume.

Table of content

The genus Homo from Africa to Europe: Evolution of terrestrial ecosystems and dispersal routes (Guest Editorial)

Pages 1-2
Marco Mancini, Raffaele Sardella

Early to Middle Pleistocene Homo dispersals from Africa to Eurasia: Geological, climatic and environmental constraints

Pages 3-19
Ernesto Abbate, Mario Sagri

Palaeolandscapes of Southern Apennines during the late Early and the Middle Pleistocene

Pages 20-29
Nicoletta Santangelo, Valentino Di Donato, Vincent Lebreton, Paola Romano, Elda Russo Ermolli

The site of Coste San Giacomo (Early Pleistocene, central Italy): Palaeoenvironmental analysis and biochronological overview

Pages 30-39
Luca Bellucci, Ilaria Mazzini, Giancarlo Scardia, Luciano Bruni, Fabio Parenti, Aldo Giacomo Segre, Eugenia Segre Naldini, Raffaele Sardella

Stratigraphical and palaeontological data from the Early Pleistocene Pirro 10 site of Pirro Nord (Puglia, south eastern Italy)

Pages 40-55
Marco Pavia, Marta Zunino, Mauro Coltorti, Chiara Angelone, Marta Arzarello, Cristina Bagnus, Luca Bellucci, Simone Colombero, Federica Marcolini, Carlo Peretto, Carmelo Petronio, Mauro Petrucci, Pierluigi Pieruccini, Raffaele Sardella, Evdokia Tema, Boris Villier, Giulio Pavia

Evidence of an Early Pleistocene hominin presence at Pirro Nord (Apricena, Foggia, southern Italy): P13 site

Pages 56-61
Marta Arzarello, Giulio Pavia, Carlo Peretto, Carmelo Petronio, Raffaele Sardella

Coupling basin infill history and mammal biochronology in a Pleistocene intramontane basin: The case of western L'Aquila Basin (central Apennines, Italy)

Pages 62-77
Marco Mancini, Giuseppe Cavuoto, Luca Pandolfi, Carmelo Petronio, Leonardo Salari, Raffaele Sardella

The Bovid assemblage (Bovidae, Mammalia) from the Early Pleistocene site of 'Ubeidiya, Israel: Biochronological and paleoecological implications for the fossil and lithic bearing strata

Pages 78-97
Bienvenido Martínez-Navarro, Miriam Belmaker, Ofer Bar-Yosef

First occurrence of Soergelia (Ovibovini, Bovidae, Mammalia) in the Early Pleistocene of Italy

Pages 98-102
Bienvenido Martínez-Navarro, Raffaele Sardella, Lorenzo Rook, Luca Bellucci, Sergio Ros-Montoya

The earliest Middle Pleistocene Crocuta crocuta (Erxleben, 1777) at Casal Selce (Rome, Italy)

Pages 103-110
Raffaele Sardella, Mauro Petrucci

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