%0 Journal Article
%A Romandini, Matteo
%A Gregorio, Oxilia
%A Bortolini, Eugenio
%A Peyrégne, Stéphane
%A Delpiano, Davide
%A Nava, Alessia
%A Panetta, Daniele
%A Domenico, Giovanni Di
%A Martini, Petra
%A Arrighi, Simona
%A Badino, Federica
%A Figus, Carla
%A Lugli, Federica
%A Marciani, Giulia
%A Silvestrini, Sara
%A Sartorio, Jessica C. Menghi
%A Terlato, Gabriele
%A Hublin, Jean-Jacques
%A Meyer, Matthias
%A Bondioli, Luca
%A Higham, Thomas
%A Slon, Viviane
%A Peresani, Marco
%A Benazzi, Stefano
%+ Department of Evolutionary Genetics, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Max Planck Society
Department of Human Evolution, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Max Planck Society
Advanced DNA Sequencing Techniques, Department of Evolutionary Genetics, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Max Planck Society
Department of Evolutionary Genetics, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Max Planck Society
Department of Human Evolution, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Max Planck Society
%T A late Neanderthal tooth from northeastern Italy : 
%G eng
%U https://hdl.handle.net/21.11116/0000-0006-E561-A
%R 10.1016/j.jhevol.2020.102867
%D 2020
%* Review method: peer-reviewed
%X The site of Riparo Broion (Vicenza, northeastern Italy) preserves a stratigraphic<br>sequence documenting the Middle to Upper Paleolithic transition, in particular the final<br>Mousterian and the Uluzzian cultures. In 2018 a human tooth was retrieved from a late<br>Mousterian level, representing the first human remain ever found from this rock shelter<br>(Riparo Broion 1). Here we provide the morphological description and taxonomic<br>assessment of Riparo Broion 1 with the support of classic and virtual morphology, 2D<br>and 3D analysis of the topography of enamel thickness, and DNA analysis. The tooth is<br>an exfoliated right upper deciduous canine, and its general morphology and enamel<br>thickness distribution support attribution to a Neanderthal child. Correspondingly, the mitochondrial DNA sequence from Riparo Broion 1 falls within the known genetic<br>variation of Late Pleistocene Neanderthals, in accordance with newly obtained<br>radiocarbon dates which point to approximately 48 ka cal BP as the most likely<br>minimum age for this specimen. The present work describes novel and direct evidence<br>of the late Neanderthal occupation in northern Italy that preceded the marked cultural<br>and technological shift documented by the Uluzzian layers in the archaeological<br>sequence at Riparo Broion. Here we provide a new full morphological, morphometric,<br>and taxonomic analysis of Riparo Broion 1, in addition to generating the wider<br>reference sample of Neanderthal and modern human upper deciduous canines. This<br>research contributes to increasing the sample of fossil remains from Italy, as well as<br>the number of currently available upper deciduous canines, which are presently poorly documented in the scientific literature.<br>
%K Neanderthal; Deciduous human canine; Late Middle Paleolithic; Mediterranean Europe; Virtual analysis; 2D and 3D enamel thickness

%J Journal of Human Evolution
%V 147
%] 102867
%I Elsevier
%C Amsterdam
%@ 0047-2484