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ARCHEOSTUDI / I popoli preistorici sopravvissuti all'ultima Era Glaciale? Si estinsero in Italia

#ARCHEOLOGIA #STUDI / I popoli preistorici sopravvissuti all'ultima Era Glaciale? Si estinsero in Italia: lo rivela uno studio internazionale pubblicato su #Nature @Nature | @UNI_FIRENZE | @UniPadova | @Unibo | @unipisa | @unisiena | @unipa_it | @univca

Ricostruzione di un cacciatore-raccoglitore associato alla cultura gravettiana (32.000-24.000 anni fa), ispirata ai reperti archeologici del sito di Arene Candide (Italia) (foto: Tom Bjoerklund) Con il più grande set di genomi di cacciatori-raccoglitori europei preistorici mai realizzato, un gruppo di ricerca internazionale, a cui ha partecipato l’Università di Firenze, ha riscritto la storia…

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Newly discovered fossil of giant turtle is named after Stephen King novel character

Senckenberg Research Institute and Natural History Museum

An international research team led by Dr. Gabriel S. Ferreira from the Senckenberg Center for Human Evolution and Paleoenvironment at the University of Tübingen has described a new species of giant turtle from the late Pleistocene. Peltocephalus maturin is between 40,000 and 9,000 years old and comes from the Brazilian Amazon. With a shell length of about 180 centimeters, the species is one of the largest known freshwater turtles in the world. The armored reptile was named after the giant turtle "Maturin," a fictional character created by best-selling author Stephen King. With a maximum shell length of 140 centimeters, the Asian narrow-headed softshell turtle (Chitra chitra) together with the approximately 110-centimeter-long South American river turtle (Podocnemis expansa) is one of the largest freshwater turtles alive today...

Read more: https://phys.org/news/2024-03-newly-fossil-giant-turtle-stephen.html

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IN UNA NUOVA RICERCA, LA DIETA DELL'UOMO DELLA PIETRA...

IN UNA NUOVA RICERCA, LA DIETA DELL’UOMO DELLA PIETRA…

Uno studio isotopico sui resti umani provenienti dalle Grotte di Serinyà, in Catalogna, ha dimostrato che il pesce non era nella dieta dei cacciatori-raccoglitori dell’Europa meridionale di 27.000 anni fa. I gruppi umani della Penisola iberica, nel periodo Tardo gravettiano, mangiavano principalmente piante e mammiferi terrestri come conigli, cervi e cavalli. Un team internazionale di ricercatori…

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Evidence of slash-and-burn cultivation during the Mesolithic

Evidence of slash-and-burn cultivation during the Mesolithic

As early as 9,500 years ago, people in Europe used slash-and-burn methods to make land usable for agriculture. This is shown by environmental data generated by scientists from the Senckenberg Center for Human Evolution and Paleoenvironment (S-HEP) at the University of Tübingen on the basis of two drill cores from the Ammer Valley. The data were then correlated with results from the Mesolithic…