Letizia Silvestri's Outputs (6)

Isotopic insights from carpological remains: one of the first datasets for the Italian Bronze Age (2024)
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Cortese, F., De Angelis, F., Bontempo, L., Carrara, N., Cuda, M. T., Longa, E. D., Cecchi, I. M., Sarti, L., Silvestri, L., Rickards, O., & Rolfo, M. F. (2024). Isotopic insights from carpological remains: one of the first datasets for the Italian Bronze Age. Data in Brief, 57, Article 111000. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dib.2024.111000

Even though agriculture already spread into Eurasia during the Neolithic, the transition between the Copper Age and the Bronze Age was the time where Italian communities tuned horticultural techniques to foster the soil productivity. Carbon and nitro... Read More about Isotopic insights from carpological remains: one of the first datasets for the Italian Bronze Age.

Isotopic reconstruction of the subsistence strategy for a Central Italian Bronze Age community (Pastena cave, 2nd millennium BCE) (2022)
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Cortese, F., De Angelis, F., Achino, K. F., Bontempo, L., di Cicco, M. R., Gatta, M., …Rolfo, M. F. (2022). Isotopic reconstruction of the subsistence strategy for a Central Italian Bronze Age community (Pastena cave, 2nd millennium BCE). Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences, 14(10), Article 201. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12520-022-01673-5

The Pastena cave is located in central Italy, and its best-preserved sector is Grotticella W2, which is dated radiometrically to the Early-Middle Bronze Age. The aim of this paper is to explore human diet, animal husbandry, and plant management, anal... Read More about Isotopic reconstruction of the subsistence strategy for a Central Italian Bronze Age community (Pastena cave, 2nd millennium BCE).

Rethinking Collective Burial in Mediterranean Caves: Middle Bronze Age Grotta Regina Margherita, Central Italy (2021)
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Skeates, R., Beckett, J., Mancini, D., Cavazzuti, C., Silvestri, L., Hamilton, W. D., …Angle, M. (2021). Rethinking Collective Burial in Mediterranean Caves: Middle Bronze Age Grotta Regina Margherita, Central Italy. Journal of Field Archaeology, 46(6), 382-398. https://doi.org/10.1080/00934690.2021.1917137

Drawing on the results of new multi-method research in Grotta Regina Margherita—the largest known Middle Bronze Age mortuary cave in west-central Italy (ca. 1650–1450 b.c.)—this article helps to replace the generic idea of “collective burial” with a... Read More about Rethinking Collective Burial in Mediterranean Caves: Middle Bronze Age Grotta Regina Margherita, Central Italy.

Late Pleistocene and Holocene distribution history of the Eurasian beaver in Italy (2019)
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Salari, L., Masseti, M., & Silvestri, L. (2020). Late Pleistocene and Holocene distribution history of the Eurasian beaver in Italy. Mammalia, 84(3), 259-277. https://doi.org/10.1515/mammalia-2018-0159

The genus Castor first appeared in the Palaearctic region during the Late Miocene, while the current species, Castor fiber, is widely accepted to have emerged in the Early Pleistocene. In the Last Glacial Maximum (Late Pleistocene), the beaver disapp... Read More about Late Pleistocene and Holocene distribution history of the Eurasian beaver in Italy.

Grotta Mora Cavorso: Physical, material and symbolic boundaries of life and death practices in a Neolithic cave of central Italy (2018)
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Silvestri, L., Achino, K., Gatta, M., Rolfo, M., & Salari, L. (2020). Grotta Mora Cavorso: Physical, material and symbolic boundaries of life and death practices in a Neolithic cave of central Italy. Quaternary International, 539, 29-38. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quaint.2018.09.050

Grotta Mora Cavorso is a multi-stratified site located in the inner Apennines in Central Italy. The archaeological deposit found in it spans from Upper Palaeolithic to World War II, and holds one of the largest Neolithic burial deposits currently kno... Read More about Grotta Mora Cavorso: Physical, material and symbolic boundaries of life and death practices in a Neolithic cave of central Italy.

Bioarchaeological remains as indicators of costly signalling: two case studies from the Middle Bronze Age of Central Italy (2017)
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Silvestri, L., Achino, K., Gatta, M., & Rolfo, M. (2017). Bioarchaeological remains as indicators of costly signalling: two case studies from the Middle Bronze Age of Central Italy. World Archaeology, 49(4), 491-505. https://doi.org/10.1080/00438243.2017.1311803

This paper concerns the role of costly signalling in the ritual expressions of Middle Bronze Age human culture of Central Italy. A wide overview of the existing literature and the accurate examination of recent case studies enabled us to demonstrate... Read More about Bioarchaeological remains as indicators of costly signalling: two case studies from the Middle Bronze Age of Central Italy.