The Late Pleistocene faunal assemblage from Cava Muracci (Latium,Italy): Palaeoenvironmental implications for coastal central Italy during MIS 3 |
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| Authors: | Maurizio Gatta Tassos Kotsakis Luca Pandolfi Carmelo Petronio Leonardo Salari Katia Francesca Achino Letizia Silvestri Mario Federico Rolfo |
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| Institution: | 1. University of York, Department of Archaeology, King''s Manor, Exhibition Square, YO1 7EP York, UK;2. Università Roma Tre, Dipartimento di Scienze, Largo San Leonardo Murialdo 1, 00146 Roma, Italy;3. Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra, “Sapienza” Università di Roma, Piazzale Aldo Moro 5, 00185 Roma, Italy;4. Quantitative Archaeology Lab, Department of Prehistory, Autonomous University of Barcelona, Campus UAB, 08193 Bellaterra, Spain;5. Institute of Archaeology ZRC SAZU, Novi trg 2, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia;6. Department of Archaeology, Durham University, South Road, DH1 3LE Durham, UK;7. Department of History, Culture and Society, University of Rome ‘Tor Vergata’, via Columbia 1, 00163 Roma, Italy |
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| Abstract: | Palaeoenvironmental information on Marine Isotope Stage 3 (MIS 3) coastal Latium is sparse, mainly based on studies of isolated faunal assemblages or long pollen records from lake sediments, often of insufficient resolution to aid in palaeoenvironmental reconstruction. This study describes in detail the Late Pleistocene faunal assemblage from layers SU11 and SU12 of Cava Muracci (Cisterna di Latina, central Italy), the first of which is a partially-preserved hyena den. The first multi-disciplinary palaeoenvironmental reconstruction of coastal Latium between 34–44 ka BP, a critical time span for the presence of the latest Neanderthals and the arrival of Anatomically Modern Humans (AMH), is provided combining palaeoecological inferences from a previous pollen study of hyena coprolites with the palaeontological study described here. The results indicate a temperate climate and a landscape characterised by the coexistence of at least three habitats within a short distance between the coastline and the inland mountains, suitable for a wide variety of species. |
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| Keywords: | Large mammals Small vertebrates Palaeoecology Environmental reconstruction Mediterranean Grands mammifères Petits vertébrés Paléoécologie Reconstitution environnementale Méditerranée |
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