HUMAN RESILIENCE AND THE CLIMATIC IMPACT OF GREENLAND STADIAL 5 ON THE LANDSCAPE OF THE NORTHERN APENNINE WATERSHED. AN ASSESSMENT BASED ON MULTIDISCIPLINARY DATA FROM THE PIOVESELLO GRAVETTIAN SITE
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The Gravettian settlements of Europe are considered as an expression of the human adaptation to harsh climates. In Southern Europe, however, favorable vegetation-climate conditions supported hunters-gatherers subsistence and the maintenance of their large-scale networks. This was also the case of the North-Adriatic plain and the Apennine mountain ridge in Italy, where the ephemeral site of Piovesello locates at 870 m a.s.l. Cultural and palaeobotanical evidence allows to reconstruct human and vegetation ecology at a glaciated area in the Northern Apennine during Greenland Stadial 5 and also provides hints for the historical biogeography of petrophytic plants and their orographic relics.
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