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1. Population density (ind/ha) of long-term (>15 years) series of CMR populations, using distinct demographic models designed for both open and closed populations, were analysed for two sympatric species of rodents (Myodes glareolus and Apodemus flavicollis) from a mountain area in central Italy, in order to test the relative performance of various employed demographic models. In particular, the hypothesis that enumeration models systematically underestimate the population size of a given population was tested.

Brown bears in the Apennines, central Italy, survive in a precarious conservation status but the reproductive performance of the population has never been formally assessed. Each year, from 2006-2014, we conducted surveys of females with cubs (FWC) to estimate the minimum number of female bears that reproduced and annual productivity in this bear population. We discriminated unique family groups based on simultaneity of sightings, presence of individually recognizable bears, and ad hoc distance-based rules developed using GPS relocations from 11 adult female bears in our study population.

Mythology of the public square and the forest: modern city and the Nature; The disappearance of urban space; Durability and future; No mythology without iconology.

Atti dell'incontro internazionale - promosso dal CISPUT - delle reti locali italiana e spagnola dell'ISUF international. Il confronto di Artimino ha posto le basi per una riflessione congiunta che vuole superare quelle resistenze locali all’innovazione proponendo un dialogo tra la scuola italiana e spagnola, che condividono una medesima area culturale Mediterranea e che oggi, con differenti studi e ricerche, offrono nuovi contributi ad un approccio disciplinare che si è sempre misurato con un ambiente ed un paesaggio particolarmente adatto ad una sapienza edilizia fortemente muraria

This paper aims to provide an overview of the information on Italian culture available in diaries written from 1867 to 1897 by the official delegates of the Qing government.

Evidence of human activities during the Middle to Upper Palaeolithic transition is well represented from rock-shelters, caves and open-air sites across Italy. Over the past decade, both the revision of taphonomic processes affecting archaeological faunal assemblages and new zooarchaeological studies have allowed archaeologists to better understand subsistence strategies and cultural behaviors attributed to groups of Neandertal and modern humans living in the region. This work presents the preliminary results of a 5-years research programme (ERC n.

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Elsevier
Quaternary International
Volume 551, 20 June 2020, Pages 1-6
Quaternary International
A focus on the Middle to Upper Palaeolithic transition in the Mediterranean area
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Università di Bologna, Dipartimento di Beni Culturali, Via Degli Ariani, 1, 48121, Ravenna, Italy

An image of a 12th century marble winged lion was provocatively included among the slides accompanying a lecture by the author at a recent conference at the American Academy in Rome to illustrate Umberto Scerrato’s work on Islamic archaeology and art history in Italy. The lion, in fact, was never published by Scerrato, but it and a winged bull, both once featuring as ornaments on the “Moresque Fountain” in Ravello (originally from a medieval building most likely from Ravello itself), are the subject of this brief article. They are of undeniable Islamic taste.

This contribution shows the first results of an experimental reconstruction of the Portonovo's underground ovens in order to explore their function. A comparison between the data collected on site and in laboratory confirm the hypothesis of a multipurpose use of the ovens and puts in evidence the problem of bias between the temperatures measured during the firing experiment and the temperatures estimated after XRPD analysis.

Following a mid twelfth-century BC demographic crisis, Frattesina, in northern Italy,arose as a prominent hub linking continental Europe and the Mediterranean, as evidenced by the remarkable variety of exotic materials and commodities discovered at the site. Debate persists, however, about the extent to which migrants influenced the foundation and devel- opment of Frattesina. The authors present the results of strontium isotope analyses, which suggest significant migration to the site, par- ticularly of elites, mostly from within a 50km radius.