%0 Journal Article
%A Moroni, Adriana
%A Ronchitelli, Annamaria
%A Simona, Arrighi
%A Aureli, Daniele
%A Bailey, Shara E.
%A Boscato, Paolo
%A Boschin, Francesco
%A Capecchi, Giulia
%A Crezzini, Jacopo
%A Douka, Katerina
%A Marciani, Giulia
%A Panetta, Daniele
%A Ranaldo, Filomena
%A Ricci, Stefano
%A Scaramucci, Sem
%A Spagnolo, Vincenzo
%A Benazzi, Stefano
%A Gambassini, Paolo
%+ Department of Human Evolution, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Max Planck Society
%T Grotta del Cavallo (Apulia – Southern Italy). The Uluzzian in the mirror : 
%G eng
%U https://hdl.handle.net/21.11116/0000-0002-D565-C
%R 10.4436/JASS.96004
%7 2018
%D 2018
%* Review method: peer-reviewed
%X The Uluzzian techno-complex is commonly considered to be a “transitional industry” mostly <br>on  the  basis  of  some  inferred  characteristics  such  as  a  chiefly  flake-based  production,  a  small  amount  of  <br>Upper  Palaeolithic-like  tools  and  a  combination  of  Middle  and  Upper  Palaeolithic  elements  both  in  the  <br>toolkit  and  in  the  technical  systems.  Following  its  discovery,  the  Uluzzian  was  identified  as  the  Italian  <br>counterpart of the French Châtelperronian and attributed to Neandertals. However, a study issued in 2011 <br>has  established  the  modern  character  of  the  two  deciduous  teeth  found  in  1964  in  the  Uluzzian  deposit  <br>of  Grotta  del  Cavallo,  fostering  renewed  interests  to  the  Uluzzian  culture,  which  real  nature  is  almost  <br>unknown to the international scientific community. Here we provide preliminary results of the study on the <br>lithic assemblage from the earliest Uluzzian layer and on backed pieces from the whole Uluzzian sequence <br>of Grotta del Cavallo (Apulia, Italy), the type site of the Uluzzian. Moreover, besides a thorough review <br>on the stratigraphy of Grotta del Cavallo (Supplementary Materials), we provide updated information on <br>the human remains by presenting two unpublished teeth from the reworked deposit of the same cave. We <br>conclude that the early Uluzzians demonstrate original technological behavior and innovations devoid of <br>any features deriving or directly linked with the late Mousterian of Southern Italy. Therefore, the novelty <br>nature of the Uluzzian techno-complex (with respect to the preceding Mousterian) complies with the recent <br>reassessment  of  the  two  deciduous  teeth  from  Grotta  del  Cavallo  in  suggesting  an  earliest  migration  of  <br>modern humans in southern Europe around 45,000 years ago. 
%K Uluzzian, Grotta del Cavallo, Bipolar technique, Backed pieces, Human remains
%J Journal of Anthropological Sciences
%V 96
%& 125
%P 125 - 160
%I Istituto Italiano di Antropologia
%C Rom