Origin and diet of the prehistoric hunter-gatherers on the Mediterranean island of Favignana (Ègadi Islands, Sicily)

MA Mannino, G Catalano, S Talamo, G Mannino… - PLoS …, 2012 - journals.plos.org
Hunter-gatherers living in Europe during the transition from the late Pleistocene to the
Holocene intensified food acquisition by broadening the range of resources exploited to …

Upper Palaeolithic hunter-gatherer subsistence in Mediterranean coastal environments: an isotopic study of the diets of the earliest directly-dated humans from Sicily

MA Mannino, R Di Salvo, V Schimmenti… - Journal of …, 2011 - Elsevier
The subsistence of hunter-gatherers in the Mediterranean Basin has been the object of few
studies, which have not fully clarified the role of aquatic resources in their diets. Here we …

Stuck to the shore? Investigating prehistoric hunter-gatherer subsistence, mobility and territoriality in a Mediterranean coastal landscape through isotope analyses on …

MA Mannino, KD Thomas, MJ Leng, R Di Salvo… - Quaternary …, 2011 - Elsevier
Subsistence and mobility strategies of hunter-gatherers in the Mediterranean Basin during
the transition from the late Pleistocene to the early Holocene have been the object of few …

New insights into mesolithic human diet in the Mediterranean from stable isotope analysis: The sites of Campu Stefanu and Torre d'Aquila, Corsica

G Goude, M Willmes, R Wood… - International Journal …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Mesolithic human remains are rare in the archaeological record of the French
Mediterranean. Only the island of Corsica has so far produced relatively well‐preserved …

Late Pleistocene-Holocene coastal adaptation in central Mediterranean: snapshots from Grotta d'Oriente (NW Sicily)

AC Colonese, DL Vetro, W Landini, Z Di Giuseppe… - Quaternary …, 2018 - Elsevier
Marine faunal remains from Grotta d'Oriente (Favignana Island, NW Sicily) offer invaluable
snapshots of human-coastal environment interaction in the central Mediterranean from the …

Late Upper Palaeolithic hunter-gatherers in the Central Mediterranean: New archaeological and genetic data from the Late Epigravettian burial Oriente C (Favignana …

G Catalano, DL Vetro, PF Fabbri, S Mallick… - Quaternary …, 2020 - Elsevier
Grotta d'Oriente, a small coastal cave located on the island of Favignana (Sicily, Italy) is a
key site for the study of the early human colonization of Sicily. The individual known as …

Human remains from Arma di Nasino (Liguria) provide novel insights into the paleoecology of early Holocene foragers in northwestern Italy

VS Sparacello, G Goude, A Varalli, I Dori… - Scientific Reports, 2023 - nature.com
We report the discovery and analysis of new Mesolithic human remains—dated to ca.
10,200–9000 cal. BP—from Arma di Nasino in Liguria, northwestern Italy, an area rich in …

Dental calculus and isotopes provide direct evidence of fish and plant consumption in Mesolithic Mediterranean

E Cristiani, A Radini, D Borić, HK Robson, I Caricola… - Scientific Reports, 2018 - nature.com
In this contribution we dismantle the perceived role of marine resources and plant foods in
the subsistence economy of Holocene foragers of the Central Mediterranean using a …

Palaeodietary records of coastal Mediterranean populations

OE Craig, M Biazzo, MA Tafuri - Journal of Mediterranean Studies, 2006 - muse.jhu.edu
Stable isotope analysis of archaeological bones can be used to reconstruct an individual's
long-term dietary record. This emerging technique is particularly suited for distinguishing …

A terrestrial diet close to the coast: a case study from the Neolithic levels of Nerja Cave (Málaga, Spain)

DC Salazar-García, M Pérez-Ripoll… - Times of Neolithic …, 2017 - Springer
Here we present an evaluation of faunal studies and new isotopic results on human and
faunal remains from the first farmers at Nerja Cave (Málaga, Spain), and assess the data …