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Late Pleistocene-Holocene coastal adaptation in central Mediterranean: Snapshots from Grotta d’Oriente (NW Sicily)
Melanie J. LengMelanie J. LengZ. Di GiuseppeBeatrice DemarchiBeatrice DemarchiAlessandro IncarbonaAndré Carlo ColoneseWalter LandiniNiklas HausmannNiklas HausmannA.c. WhitwoodFabio MartiniC. D’angeloD. Lo Vetrosubject
Mediterranean climate010506 paleontology060102 archaeologyPleistoceneNW SicilyCentral Mediterranean NW Sicily Upper Palaeolithic to Early Neolithic Coastal adaptation Environmental changeUpper Palaeolithic to Early Neolithic06 humanities and the artsSettore GEO/01 - Paleontologia E PaleoecologiaEnvironmental change01 natural sciencesCentral MediterraneanOceanographyGeographySea level riseCoastal adaptation0601 history and archaeologyMainlandAdaptationMarine productivityExploitation of natural resourcesHolocene0105 earth and related environmental sciencesEarth-Surface Processesdescription
Marine faunal remains from Grotta d’Oriente (Favignana Island, NW Sicily) offer invaluable snapshots of human-coastal environment interaction in the central Mediterranean from the Late Pleistocene to the Middle Holocene. The long-term shellfish and fish records reflect human exploitation of coastal environments undergoing considerable reorganizations during the postglacial sea level rise and the progressive isolation of Favignana from mainland Sicily. We detected an intensification of marine resource exploitation between ∼9.6 ka and ∼7.8 ka BP, which corresponds with the isolation of Favignana Island and, later on, with the introduction of early agro-pastoral economy in this region. We suggest that a higher investment in marine resource exploitation by late foragers and early farmers in NW Sicily was also supported by an increase in marine productivity in the south Tyrrhenian Sea in the Middle Holocene.
| year | journal | country | edition | language |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2018-11-01 | Quaternary International |