Annamaria Ronchitelli

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Annamaria Ronchitelli (born January 8, 1949 in Padua ) is an Italian prehistorian and professor at the University of Siena at the Dipartimento di Scienze Fisiche, della Terra e dell'Ambiente .

Ronchitelli presented her laurea in 1973 in Lettere Classiche at the University of Florence . From 1981 she worked as a scientist and since 2000 as a professor at the University of Siena. She is mainly concerned with human paleontology and anthropology . She carried out excavations in more than a hundred campaigns, primarily in the Scario and Sapri area in Campania . More extensive excavations were also found in the Apulian caves Riparo Oscurusciuto di Ginosa , Grotta di S. Croce di Bisceglie (northwest of Bari ), in front of the Grotta Paglicci , especially in the Upper Paleolithic layers, where the oldest flour can be proven and the extraction steps can be reconstructed , instead of.

Ronchitelli is the Italian representative in Commission 8 (Upper Palaeolithic Eurasia) of the Union Internationale des Sciences Préhistoriques et Protohistoriques . She is also a member of the Istituto Italiano di Preistoria e Protostoria , the Istituto Italiano di Paleontologia Umana and the Associazione Antropologica Italiana .

Her research focuses on the Middle Paleolithic in southern Italy, the transition to the Upper Paleolithic in Italy, then the Upper Paleolithic as a whole. In addition, she works on the first settlement of Calabria and the connection between lithic production and economy.

Works (selection)

  • with Giulia Marciani, Simona Arrighi, Daniele Aureli, Vincenzo Spagnolo, Paolo Boscato: Middle Palaeolithic lithic tools: Techno-functional and use-wear analysis of target objects from SU 13 at the Oscurusciuto rock shelter, Southern Italy , in: Quaternary Science Reviews ( July 2018)
  • with Vincenzo Spagnolo, Giulia Marciani, Daniele Aureli, Francesco Berna, Ginevra Toniello, Fernando Astudilloc, Francesco Boschin, Paolo Boscato: Neanderthal activity and resting areas from stratigraphic unit 13 at the Middle Palaeolithic site of Oscurusciuto (Ginosa - Taranto, Southern Italy) , in: Quaternary Science Reviews (2018)
  • with Paolo Boscato, Paolo Gambassini, Filomena Ranaldo: Management of Paleoenvironmental Resources and Exploitation of Raw Materials at the Middle Paleolithic Site of Oscurusciuto (Ginosa, Southern Italy): Units 1 and 4 , in: Nicholas Conard , Jürgen Richter (ed. ): Neanderthal Lifeways, Subsistence and Technology. One Hundred Fifty Years of Neanderthal Study , Springer Science & Business Media, 2011, pp. 87-96.

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Remarks

  1. ↑ Annamaria Ronchitelli, Ursula Wierer , Valentina Borgia: Aspetti della produione laminare e lamellare nel Gravettiano antico di Grotta Paglicci , in: Francesca Radina (ed.): Preistoria e Protostoria della Puglia , Florence 2017, pp. 619–624.
  2. ↑ Jacopo Crezzini, Paolo Boscato, Stefano Ricci, Annamaria Ronchitelli, Vincenzo Spagnolo, Francesco Boschin: A spotted hyaena den in the Middle Palaeolithic of Grotta Paglicci (Gargano promontory, Apulia, Southern Italy) , in: Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences 8.2 ( 2016) 227–240.
  3. ↑ Marta Mariotti Lippi, Bruno Foggi, Biancamaria Aranguren, Annamaria Ronchitelli, Anna Revedin: Multistep food plant processing at Grotta Paglicci (Southern Italy) around 32,600 cal BP , in: PNAS 112 no. 39 (25 September 2015) 12075–12080.
personal data
SURNAME Ronchitelli, Annamaria
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian prehistorian
DATE OF BIRTH January 8, 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH Padua