Around an elephant carcass: Cimitero di Atella and Ficoncella in the behavioural variability during the Early Middle Pleistocene in italy

Roxane Rocca (1, 2) , Francesco Boschin , Daniele Aureli

1 Ethnologie préhistorique
2 UP1 - Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne

A great number of Lower Palaeolithic sites in Italy yielded lithic industries associated with elephant remains. This recurrent association can give an im- pression of homogeneity, but in fact the situation is much more complex. This association must rath- er be seen as a prism to understand the cultural and behavior variability. We investigate this topic through the evidence of two early Middle Pleisto- cene Italian sites, Cimitero di Atella and Ficoncella, and we try to insert results obtained previously in the framework of the Middle Pleistocene in Italy.

Mots clés: Lower Palaeolithic; Italy; Palaeoloxodon antiquus; reduction sequences; small tool

Domaines: Archéologie et Préhistoire

Roxane Rocca, Francesco Boschin, Daniele Aureli. Around an elephant carcass: Cimitero di Atella and Ficoncella in the behavioural variability during the Early Middle Pleistocene in italy. George E Konidaris; Ran Barkai; Vangelis Tourloukis; Katerina Harvati. Human-elephant interactions: from past to present, Tübingen University Press, 2021, Tuebingen Paleoanthropology Book Series – Contributions in Paleoanthropology Band 1, 978-3-947251-33-9. ⟨10.15496/PUBLIKATION-55591⟩. ⟨halshs-03324300⟩