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Raffaele Sardella
Science, Humanities and Social Sciences, multidisciplinary
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Open AccessStratigraphic reassessment of Grotta Romanelli sheds light on Middle-Late Pleistocene palaeoenvironments and human settling in the Mediterranean
During the last century, Grotta Romanelli (Southern Italy) has been a reference site for the European Late Pleistocene stratigraphy, due to its geomorphological setting and archaeological and palaeontological ...
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Open AccessA Middle Pleistocene wolf from central Italy provides insights on the first occurrence of Canis lupus in Europe
Here, we describe a partial cranium of a large canid dated at 406.5 ± 2.4 ka from the Middle Pleistocene of Ponte Galeria (Rome, Italy). The sample represents one of the few Middle Pleistocene remains of a wol...
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Open AccessThe origin of early Acheulean expansion in Europe 700 ka ago: new findings at Notarchirico (Italy)
Notarchirico (Southern Italy) has yielded the earliest evidence of Acheulean settlement in Italy and four older occupation levels have recently been unearthed, including one with bifaces, extending the roots o...
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Open AccessOld African fossils provide new evidence for the origin of the American crocodiles
Molecular and morphological phylogenies concur in indicating that the African lineages formerly referred to Crocodylus niloticus are the sister taxon the four Neotropical crocodiles (Crocodylus intermedius, C. mo...
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Open AccessSynchrotron radiation reveals the identity of the large felid from Monte Argentario (Early Pleistocene, Italy)
We describe here a partial skull with associated mandible of a large felid from Monte Argentario, Italy (Early Pleistocene; ~1.5 million years). Propagation x-ray phase-contrast synchrotron microtomography of ...
