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ArticlePloS one2017

The Aggradational Successions of the Aniene River Valley in Rome: Age Constraints to Early Neanderthal Presence in Europe.

Fabrizio Marra, Piero Ceruleo, Luca Pandolfi, Carmelo Petronio, Mario F Rolfo, Leonardo Salari

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Fabrizio MarraIstituto Nazionale di Geofisica e Vulcanologia,Via di Vigna Murata, Roma, Italy.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4881-9563
Piero CeruleoFreelance, Tivoli (Roma), Italy.
Luca PandolfiDipartimento di Scienze, sezione di Geologia, Università degli Studi "Roma Tre", Largo San Leonardo Murialdo, Roma, Italy.
Carmelo PetronioDipartimento di Scienze della Terra, Sapienza, Università di Roma, Piazzale Aldo Moro, Roma, Italy.
Mario F RolfoDipartimento di Storia, Cultura e Società, Università di Roma "Tor Vergata", Via Columbia, Roma, Italy.
Leonardo SalariDipartimento di Scienze della Terra, Sapienza, Università di Roma, Piazzale Aldo Moro, Roma, Italy.

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Abstract

We revise the chronostratigraphy of several sedimentary successions cropping out along a 5 km-long tract of the Aniene River Valley in Rome (Italy), which yielded six hominin remains previously attributed to proto- or archaic Neanderthal individuals, as well as a large number of lithic artefacts showing intermediate characteristics somewhere between the local Acheulean and Mousterian cultures. Through a method of correlation of aggradational successions with post-glacial sea-level rises, relying on a large set of published 40Ar/39Ar ages of interbedded volcanic deposits, we demonstrate that deposition of the sediments hosting the human remains spans the interval 295-220 ka. This is consistent with other well constrained ages for lithic industries recovered in England, displaying transitional features from Lower to Middle Paleolithic, suggesting the appearance of Mode 3 during the MIS 9-MIS 8 transition. Moreover, the six human bone fragments recovered in the Aniene Valley should be regarded as the most precisely dated and oldest hominin remains ascribable to Neanderthal-type individuals in Europe, discovered to date. The chronostratigraphic study presented here constitutes the groundwork for addressing re-analysis of these remains and of their associated lithic industries, in the light of their well-constrained chronological picture.

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FossilsNeanderthalsRiversAnimalsArchaeologyEuropeHumansPaleontologyRome

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