The giant, short-faced hyena Pachycrocuta brevirostris was the largest Hyaenidae ever
existed and the one that perfectly embodied the distinctive bone-cracking adaptations of this …

A hundred pollen and plant macrofossil records from the Iberian Peninsula, Southern
France, the Italian Peninsula, Greece and the Aegean, and the southwestern Black Sea area …

The timing of the human control of fire is a hotly debated issue, with claims for regular fire
use by early hominins in Africa at∼ 1.6 million y ago. These claims are not uncontested, but …

The Mauer mandible, holotype of Homo heidelbergensis, was found in 1907 in fluvial sands
deposited by the Neckar River 10 km southeast of Heidelberg, Germany. The fossil is an …

In the current state of knowledge, the European distribution of Acheulian industries that
include handaxes and cleavers appears to be centered in southwestern Europe; their …

Cave bear (Ursus spelaeus), brown bear (Ursus arctos), and Neanderthals were potential
competitors for environmental resources (shelters and food) in Europe. In order to reinforce …

The Sierra de Atapuerca sites (Spain) have yielded excellent data and they represent the
longest chronological sequence discovered in Europe to date, covering the late Early …

Isernia La Pineta (south-central Italy, Molise) is one of the most important archaeological
localities of the Middle Pleistocene in Western Europe. It is an extensive open-air site with …

Over the last 50 years the studies on terrestrial mammals of the Italian peninsula have
provided a large volume of data and a more detailed knowledge of faunal events during the …

Abstract Isernia La Pineta archaeological site in Central Italy, dated to about 0.6 Ma, is one
of the earliest archaeological sites of the Italian peninsula and one of the key sites for the …