This paper is aimed to elucidate the ecological scenario in Italy in the Early to Middle
Pleistocene, when species of the genus Homo are known to spread across Europe in two …

Résumé Les niveaux fossilifères de la Caune de l'Arago représentent un excellent outil pour
comprendre les relations entre les renouvellements de faunes et les changements …

The penecontemporaneous Middle Pleistocene sites of Fontana Ranuccio (Latium) and
Visogliano (Friuli-Venezia Giulia), set c. 450 km apart in central and northeastern Italy …

The hominin mandible BH-1 from the Middle Pleistocene cave of Mala Balanica suggested
the possibility that human populations in this part of the continent were not subject to the …

We report here on evidence of early Homo around 1.0 Ma (millions of years ago) in the
central plains of southern Africa. The human material, a first upper molar, was discovered …

After nearly 150 years of research, many aspects of the emergence of the Acheulian techno-
complex in Europe are still under debate. They include: the chronology of the appearance of …

This paper focuses on the early evidence of assemblages with bifacial tools, in particular
their technology within the context of chronology and geography, focusing on the sites of La …

During the Quaternary, bovids are common elements in the Italian local faunal assemblages
(LFAs). Representatives of Bovini tribe are continuously present, albeit with different …

The prehistoric site of la Noira, located in the Cher Valley, a tributary of the Loire River in the
center of France, has yielded a lithic assemblage composed of large bifacial tools, cores and …

The remains of 12 canid species that date back ca. 4.9 myr have been found at 116
paleontological localities. Among these localities, eight are dated to the Pliocene age, 12 …