Cimitero di Atella
Roxane ROCCA © Mibac 2021. Efr
Présentation du site
The Cimitero di Atella Palaeolithic site is located in the province of Potenza (Basilicata, Italy). By virtue of its geographical position and chronological allocation, around 600,000 years ago, Atella is situated at a key moment in the European Early Palaeolithic – a pivotal moment between the first wave of settlements in Europe, which date back more than 1 million years, and the emergence of the bifacial technical phenomenon between 700 and 500,000 years ago.
Historique des travaux
Following on from the work carried out for more than 20 years by Professor Borzatti (University of Florence), the work currently being carried out on the Palaeolithic site of Cimitero di Atella is part of a wider research project aimed at reconstructing the dynamics of settlement during the Early Palaeolithic in Italy (PALEO II programme, French School of Rome). The aim of the new Italian-French research team is to obtain new information on the landscapes, environment and lifestyles of the people who inhabited the Atella region 600,000 years ago. The data obtained will make it possible to take part in the debate on the first human settlements in Europe and the Mediterranean.
Pour en savoir plus
https://www.efrome.it/en/research/research-themes/program-detail/paleo
Recherche de bénévoles
roxane.rocca@univ-paris1.frAutres projets en lien avec le site
Doctorat EVOL : EVolution et chronOLogie du Paléolithique inférieur en Basilicate (Italie)
Valorisation
PaleoAtella, museo diffuso : https://www.paleoatella.it/
Selected bibliography
- Rocca, R., Abruzzese, C., Aureli, D., Nicoud, E., Pagli, M., 2020. L’Italia circa 500.000 anni fa: centro o periferia nel Mediterraneo?, in: Bernabò Brea, M. (Ed.), Italia tra Mediterraneo ed Europa: mobilità, interazioni e scambi. Istituto Italiano di Preistoria e Protostoria, Rivista di Scienze Preistoriche (numero speciale), Florence, pp. 7–17
- Rocca, R., Aureli, D., Germond, L., Lorente, P., Stefani, L., 2022. Mission 2021 sur le site de Cimitero di Atella. Bulletin archéologique des Écoles françaises à l’étranger.
- Rocca, R., Boschin, F., Aureli, D., 2021. Around an elephant carcass: Cimitero di Atella and Ficoncella in the behavioural variability during the Early Middle Pleistocene in italy, in: Konidaris, G., Barkai, R., Tourloukis, V., Harvati, K. (Eds.), Human-Elephant Interactions: From Past to Present, Tübingen Paleoanthropology Book Series – Volume Contributions in Paleoanthropology. Tübingen University Press, Tübingen, pp. 287–302
- Rocca, R., Il sito paleolitio del Cimitero di Atella (PZ). D4GNA. 15/08/2023
- Rocca, R., Aureli, D., Fornaciari, L., Montaigne, L., 2023a. Mission 2022 sur le site paléolithique de Cimitero di Atella. Bulletin archéologique des Écoles françaises à l’étranger.
- Rocca, R., Giannandrea, P., Pereira, A., Bahain, J.-J., Boschin, F., Da Costa, A., Di Rita, F., Fouriaux, F., Iannucci, A., Germond, L., Gioia, D., Magri, D., Mecozzi, B., Nomade, S., Sardella, R., Schiattarella, M., Voinchet, P., Aureli, D., 2023b. Multidisciplinary study of the Lower Palaeolithic site of Cimitero di Atella (Basilicata), Italy. Quaternary International.