Publications

2024

MAZZUCCO, N., Rey Lanaspa, J., Clemente Conte, I., Ruiz-Redondo, A., Barba Pérez, M., Bianchi, A., Capablo, A., Finocchiaro, C., Gassiot, E., Pirrone, G., Sani, S., Scarazzato, C. (2024). El campamiento Mesolítico de PBM (Sariñena, Huesca): datos preliminares sobre una cabaña de cazadores recolectores de hace 8.200 años en los Monegros. In: V Congreso de Arqueología y Patrimonio Aragonés CAPA. pp. 45-52.

MAZZUCCO, N. (2024) Trevor Watkins. 2023. Becoming Neolithic. The Pivot of Human History (London and New York: Routledge, 232p., 47 b/w figs., ISBN 978-0-415-22152-8). European Journal of Archaeology, 1-4. https://doi.org/10.1017/eaa.2024.32

Portillo, M., Hamon, C. García-Martínez, V., Macià, L., Remolins, G., MAZZUCCO, N., Mineo, M., Gibaja, J. F. (2024). Plant processing and grinding tools from the early Neolithic settlement of La Marmotta, Italy Author links open overlay panel. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, 59: 104788. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2024.104788

PETRINELLI PANNOCCHIA, C. P., VASSANELLI, A., Palleschi, V., Legnaioli, S., Mineo, M., Remolins, G., MAZZUCCO, N. & Gibaja, J. F. (2024). New evidence reveals the earliest use of cinnabar in the western Mediterranean: The Neolithic settlement of La Marmotta (Lazio, Italy). Quaternary Science Reviews, 335 (2024): 108746. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2024.108746

MAZZUCCO, N., Ibáñez, J.J., Anderson, P., Kotsakis, K., Kita, A., Adaktylou, F. & Gibaja, J.F. (2024). Use-wear evidence for the use of threshing sledges in Neolithic Greece. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, 56: 104579. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2024.104579

Clemente-Conte, I., MAZZUCCO, N., Santos, J. R., Socas, D. M., & Massieu, M. C. (2024). A traceological and quantitative assessment of the function of the bone bi-pointed tools from the Late Neolithic of the Cueva del Toro (Antequera, Malaga). Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, 56: 104559. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2024.104559

Arobba, D., Caramiello, R., Morandi, F. L., Gibaja, J. F., Mineo, M. & MAZZUCCO, N. (2024). Pollen analysis of neolithic adhesives and comparative experimental archaeology: Insights from La Marmotta (Lake Bracciano, Rome). Journal of Archaeological Science, 165: 105970. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jas.2024.105970

Gibaja, J. F., Mineo, M., Santos, F. J., Morell, B., Caruso-Fermé, L., Remolins, G., Masclans, A. & MAZZUCCO, N. (2024) The first Neolithic boats in the Mediterranean: The settlement of La Marmotta (Anguillara Sabazia, Lazio, Italy). PLoS ONE, 19(3): e0299765. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0299765

GENNAI, J. (2024). The Mousterian in North-Western Tuscany: new data from the Piano di Mommio sites. Open Research Europe, 4: 37. https://doi.org/10.12688/openreseurope.17018.1

Huet, T., Catarina Basílio, A., Faustino Carvalho, A., Cubas, M., Gibaja, J.F., López-Romero, E., Oms, F. X., MAZZUCCO, N. (2024). NeoNet Atlantic. Radiocarbon Dates for the Late Mesolithic/Early Neolithic Transition in the Southern European Atlantic Coast. Journal of Open Archaeology Data, 12(2). https://doi.org/10.5334/joad.120

2023

VASSANELLI, A., PETRINELLI PANNOCCHIA, C., & STARNINI, E. (2023). The Chaîne Opératoire Approach for Interpreting Personal Ornament Production: Marble Beads in Copper Age Tuscany (Italy). Open Archaeology, 9(1): 20220334. https://doi.org/10.1515/opar-2022-0334

Clemente-Conte, I., Ballbè, E. G., Lanaspa, J. R., MAZZUCCO, N. & Pérez, M. B. (2023). La caliza como materia prima fundamental en los procesos productivos del Neolítico antiguo en Coro Trasito (Tella-Sin, Huesca). Treballs d’Arqueologia, 26: 235-251. https://doi.org/10.5565/rev/tda.133

Ballbè, E. G., Baiges, G. S., Gómez, L. O., Bonilla, S. D., Casas, D. G., Antón, D. R., Clemente-Conte, I. & MAZZUCCO, N. (2023). Del territorio al asentamiento y del asentamiento al territorio: la investigación arqueológica en áreas de montaña y alta montaña en el Pirineo central. Treballs d’Arqueologia, 26: 17-41. https://doi.org/10.5565/rev/tda.131

Fermé, L. C., Mineo, M., Remolins, G., MAZZUCCO, N., & Gibaja, J. F. (2023). Navigation during the early Neolithic in the Mediterranean area: study of wooden artifacts associated with dugout canoes at La marmotta (Lago di Bracciano, Anguillara Sabazia, Lazio, Italy). Quaternary Science Reviews, 311: 108129. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2023.108129

Gibaja, J. F., & MAZZUCCO, N. (2023). The use of long blades and projectile points in the Western Mediterranean. Examples from the domestic and funerary sphere. Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, 51: 104109. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2023.104109

Amicone, S., Memmesheimer, A., Solard, B., Gur-Arieh, S., Rogier, M., Qarni, M. A., Seidler, J., Sconzo, P., Heinze, L., MORANDI, L. F., Kiemle, T., Miller, C. E., Nickel, K. G., Berthold, C. (2023). An interdisciplinary archaeometric approach to the study of kiln firing. A case study from Campus Galli. Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences 15(8): 111. https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s12520-023-01798-1

Kerig, T., Hilpert, J., Strohm, S., Berger, D., Denis, S., Gauthier, E., Gibaja, J. F., Mallet, N., Massa, M., MAZZUCCO, N., Nessel, B., Pelegrin, J., Pétrequin, P., Sabatini, S., Schumacher, T. X., Serbe. B. & Wilkinson, T. (2023). Interlinking research: The Big Exchange project. Antiquity, 1-8. https://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2023.78

Mineo, M., MAZZUCCO, N., Rottoli, M., Remolins, G., Caruso-Ferme, L., & Gibaja, J. F. (2023). Textiles, basketry and cordage from the Early Neolithic settlement of La Marmotta, Lazio. Antiquity, 97(392): 314-330. https://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2023.21

Mineo, M., Gibaja, J.F., MAZZUCCO, N. (editors) (2023). The Submerged Site of La Marmotta (Rome, Italy): Decrypting a Neolithic Society. Oxbow Books. ISBN: 9781789258714

MORANDI, L. F., Amicone, S. (2023). Ceramic traditions and technological choices revealed by early Iron Age funerary vessels: the case of Vetulonia (southern Tuscany). STAR 9(1): 2217558. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/20548923.2023.2217558

Posth, C., Yu, He, Ghalichi, A., Rougier, H; Crevecoeur, I; Huang, Y; Ringbauer, H; Rohrlach, A. B.; Nägele, K; Villalba-Mouco, V; Radzeviciute, R; Ferraz, T; Stoessel, A; Tukhbatova, R; Drucker, D G.; Lari, M; Modi, A; Vai, S; Saupe, T; Scheib, C L.; Catalano, G; Pagani, L; Talamo, S; Fewlass, H; Klaric, L; Morala, A; Rué, M; Madelaine, S; Crépin, L; Caverne, J-B; Bocaege, E; Ricci, S; Boschin, F; Bayle, P; Maureille, B; Le Brun-Ricalens, Foni; Bordes, J-G; Oxilia, G; Bortolini, E; Bignon-Lau, O; Debout, G; Orliac, M; Zazzo, A; Sparacello, V., STARNINI, E., Sineo, L; van der Plicht, J; Pecqueur, L; Merceron, G; Garcia, G; Leuvrey, J-M; Bay Garcia, C; Gómez-Olivencia, A; Połtowicz-Bobak, M; Bobak, D; Le Luyer, M; Storm, P; Hoffmann, C; Kabaciński, J; Filimonova, T; Shnaider, S; Berezina, N; González-Rabanal, B; González Morales, M R.; Marín-Arroyo, A B.; López, B; Alonso-Llamazares, C; Ronchitelli, A; Polet, C; Jadin, I; Cauwe, N; Soler, J; Coromina, N; Rufí, I; Cottiaux, R; Clark, G; Straus, L G.; Julien, M-A; Renhart, Silvia; Talaa, D; Benazz, Stefano; Romandini, M; Amkreutz, L; Bocherens, H; Wissing, C; Villotte, S; Fernández-López de Pablo, J; Gómez-Puche, M; A Esquembre-Bebia, M; Bodu, P; Smits, L; Souffi, B; Jankauskas, R; Kozakaitė, J; Cupillard, C; Benthien, H; Wehrberger, K; Schmitz, R W.; Feine, S C.; Schüler, T; Thevenet, C; Grigorescu, D; Lüth, F; Kotula, A; Piezonka, H; Schopper, F; Svoboda, J; Sázelová, S; Chizhevsky, A; Khokhlov, A; Conard, N J.; Valentin, F; Harvati, K; Semal, P; Jungklaus, B; Suvorov, A; Schulting, R; Moiseyev, V; Mannermaa, K; Buzhilova, A; Terberger, T; Caramelli, D; Altena, E; Haak, W; Krause, J. (2023). Paleogenomics of Upper Paleolithic to Neolithic European hunter-gatherers. Nature, 615: 117-126, https://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41586-023-05726-0

Biagi, P., STARNINI, E., Efstratiou, N., Nisbet, R., Hughes, P.D., Woodward, J.C. (2023). Mountain Landscape and Human Settlement in the Pindus Range: The Samarina Highland Zones of Western Macedonia, Greece. Land 2023, 12: 96. https://doi.org/10.3390/land12010096

GENNAI, J., Schemmel, M., & Richter, J. (2023). Pointing to the Ahmarian. Lithic Technology and the El-Wad Points of Al-Ansab 1. Journal of Paleolithic Archaeology6(1): 6. https://doi.org/10.1007/s41982-022-00131-x

2022

MAZZUCCO, N., Mineo, M., Arobba, D., Caramiello, R., Caurso Fermé, L., Gassin, B., Guilbeau, D., Ibáñez, J.J., MORANDI, L. F., Mozota, M., Pichon, F., Portillo, M., Rageot, M., Remolins, G., Rottoli, M., Gibaja, J. F. (2022). Multiproxy study of 7500-year-old wooden sickles from the Lakeshore Village of La Marmotta, Italy. Scientific Reports, 12: 14976. www.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-18597-8

Huet, T., Cubas, M., Gibaja, J. F., Oms, F. X., & MAZZUCCO, N. (2022). NeoNet Dataset. Radiocarbon Dates for the Late Mesolithic/Early Neolithic Transition in the North Central-Western Mediterranean Basin. Journal of Open Archaeology Data 10(3): 1-8. www.doi.org/10.5334/joad.87

MAZZUCCO, N., Sabanov, A., Antolín, F., Naumov, G., Fidanoski, L., & Gibaja, J. (2022). The spread of agriculture in south-eastern Europe: New data from North Macedonia. Antiquity, 96(385): 15-33. www.doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2021.32

Gassiot-Ballbè, E., Salvador-Baiges, G., Clemente-Conte, I., Díaz-Bonilla, S., Garcia-Casas, D., MAZZUCCO, N., Obea-Gómez, L., Rey-Lanaspa, J. & Rodríguez-Antón, D. (2022). Early Neolithic farming activities in high mountain landscapes of the Pyrenees: Simulating changes in settlement patterns. In Simulating Transitions to Agriculture in Prehistory (pp. 139-164). Cham: Springer International Publishing. www.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-83643-6_8

MORANDI, L. F. (2022). La Collezione Guidi nel Museo Archeologico di Grosseto. La necropoli di Colle Baroncio e la prima età del Ferro a Vetulonia. Quaderni del MAAM. Arcidosso: Effigi.

Segadelli, S., Ogata, K., Cocuccioni, M., Gambini, S., Martelli, L., MORANDI, L. F., Oppo, G. (2022). Holocene Evolution of minor mountain lacustrine basins in the Northern Apennines, Italy: the Lake Moo case study, Geosciences 12(7): 272. www.doi.org/10.3390/geosciences12070272

Biagi, P., & STARNINI, E. (2022). The Palaeolithic sequence of the Arma dell’Aquila (Finale Ligure, Savona, north-western Italy), Materiale și Cercetări Arheologice, Supplementum, Festschrift volume for 90th birthday of Dr Maria Bitiri, Eds R. Dobrescu, A. Boroneanț, “Vasile Pârvan” Institute of Archaeology of the Romanian Academy, Bucarest, pp. 217-228, ISBN 978-606-537-545-1

Zunino, M., STARNINI, E., Arobba, D., Avanzini, M., Citton, P., Firpo, M., Negrino F., Romano, M., Salvador, & Rellini, I. (2022). New insights into taphonomic analysis of the Upper Pleistocene Ursus spelaeus bones deposit from Bàsura cave (Toirano, NW Italy), Journal of Quaternary Science, 1-15. www.doi.org/10.1002/jqs.3417

Efstratiou, N., Biagi, P., STARNINI, E., Kyriakou, D., & Eleftheriadou, A. (2022). Agia Marina and Peristereònas: Two new Epipalaeolithic sites in the Island of Lemnos (Greece), Journal of Paleolithic Archaeology, 41982: 1-34 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s41982-022-00118-8

Hu Hsun-Ming, Michel, V., Valensi, P., Mii Horng-Sheng, STARNINI, E., Zunino, M., & Chuan-Chou Shen (2022). Stalagmite-Inferred Climate in the Western Mediterranean during the Roman Warm Period, Climate, 10(93): 1-10 www.doi.org/10.3390/cli10070093

Girod, A. & STARNINI, E. (2022). Mollusc Assemblage from the Early Neolithic Site of Isorella (BS, Northern Italy) and its Palaeoenvironmental Significance, Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports, 43: 103489, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jasrep.2022.103489

Hu, Hsun-Ming, Shen, Chuan-Chou, Chiang, John C. H., Trouet, V. Michel, V., Tsai, Hsien-Chen, Valensi, P., Spötl, C., STARNINI, E., Zunino, M., Chien, Wei-Yi, Sung, Wen-Hui, Chien, Yu-Tang, Chang, Ping, & Korty, R. (2022). Split westerlies over Europe in the early Little Ice Age, Nature Communications13: 4898 https://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-32654-w

STARNINI, E. (2022). Chapter 3. In the beginning: Exploring integrity of anthropomorphic images in prehistoric Europe. In Breaking Images: Damage and Mutilation of Ancient Figurines, G. Miniaci (Editor), ISBN: 9781789259148, Multidisciplinary Approaches to Ancient Societies (MAtAS), 2, Oxbow, 53-65.

Hu, Hsun-Ming, Trouet, V., Spötl, C., Tsai, Hsien-Chen, Chien, Wei-Yi, Sung, Wen-Hui, Michel, V., Yu, Jin-Yi, Valensi, P., Jiang, Xiuyang; Duan, F., Wang, Yongjin, Mii, Horng-Sheng, Chou, Yu-Min, Lone, Mahjoor A., Wu, Chung-Che; STARNINI, E., Zunino, M., Watanabe, Takaaki K.,  Watanabe, Tsuyoshi, Hsu, Huang-Hsiung, Moore, G.W.K., Zanchetta, G., Pérez-Mejías, C., Lee, Shih-Yu, Shen, Chuan-Chou (2022). Tracking westerly wind directions over Europe since the middle Holocene, Nature Communications 13: 7866 https://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-34952-9