Publications by authors named "Ilenia Arienzo"
This study focuses on the changes in diet and mobility of people buried in the La Sassa cave (Latium, Central Italy) during the Copper and Bronze Ages to contribute to the understanding of the complex contemporary population dynamics in Central Italy. To that purpose, carbon and nitrogen stable isotope analyses, strontium isotope analyses, and FT-IR evaluations were performed on human and faunal remains from this cave. The stable isotope analyses evidence a slight shift in diet between Copper and Bronze Age individuals, which becomes prominent in an individual, dating from a late phase, when the cave was mainly used as a cultic shelter.
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- Scientists studied ancient DNA from people in Italy who lived between 3200 and 1500 BCE to understand their ancestry.
- They found that a new type of ancestry from the Steppe region started appearing in Central Italy around 1600 BCE and increased over time.
- Their research showed that while there were changes in population and family ties, the arrival of Steppe ancestry didn't change many physical traits, which were affected more by events that happened after the Roman Empire.
Marked changes in human dispersal and development during the Middle to Upper Paleolithic transition have been attributed to massive volcanic eruption and/or severe climatic deterioration. We test this concept using records of volcanic ash layers of the Campanian Ignimbrite eruption dated to ca. 40,000 y ago (40 ka B.
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