Why late earliest occupation of Western Europe ?

Project Information

LATEUROPE

Grant agreement ID: 101052653

DOI

10.3030/101052653

EC signature date 27 September 2022

Start date 1 January 2023

End date 31 December 2027

Funded under

• European Research Council (ERC)

Total cost

€ 2 558 250,00

EU contribution

€ 2 558 250,00

Coordinated by

CENTRE NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE CNRS
France

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Deliverables

Documents, reports (1)

Data Management Plan

A data Management Plan will be prepared by Month 6

Publications

Peer reviewed articles (14)

Early occurrence of lion (<i>Panthera spelaea</i>) at the Middle Pleistocene Acheulean site of Notarchirico (MIS 16, Italy)

Author(s): Alessio Iannucci; Beniamino Mecozzi; Antonio Pineda; Raffaele Sardella; Marco Carpentieri; Rivka Rabinovich; Marie‐Hélène Moncel
Published in: Journal of Quaternary Science, Issue 1-8, 2024, ISSN 1099-1417
Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
DOI: 10.15496/PUBLIKATION-103804

Hominin and carnivore roles during the early Middle Pleistocene: new data from Loreto (Venosa Basin, southern Italy).

Author(s): Pineda A., Mecozzi B., Iannucci A., Carpentieri M., Sardella R., Simone S., Moncel M-H.
Published in: Journal of Quaternary Science, 2025, ISSN 0267-8179
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc.
DOI: 10.1002/JQS.70010

Petrographic and Size Analysis of Lithic Artifacts of Loreto (Early Middle Pleistocene, Basilicata, Italy) to Support Insight on the Site Lithic Industry and Human Behavior

Author(s): Giacomo Eramo, Giovanna Fioretti, Jacopo Conforti, Marco Carpentieri, Marie-Hélène Moncel
Published in: Heritage, Issue 8, 2025, ISSN 2571-9408
Publisher: MDPI AG
DOI: 10.3390/HERITAGE8060228

With Impressions Chosen from Another Time: Core Technologies and Debitage Production at the Lower Palaeolithic Site of Notarchirico (670–695 ka; layers F to I2)

Author(s): Marco Carpentieri; Marie-Hélène Moncel; Giacomo Eramo; Marta Arzarello
Published in: Journal of Paleolithic Archaeology, Issue 6:27, 2023, ISSN 2520-8217
Publisher: Springer
DOI: 10.1007/s41982-023-00154-y

Climatic and environmental changes of ~100 thousand years: The mammals from the early Middle Pleistocene sequence of Notarchirico (southern Italy)

Author(s): Beniamino Mecozzi, Alessio Iannucci, Marco Carpentieri, Antonio Pineda, Rivka Rabinovich, Raffaele Sardella, Marie-Hélène Moncel
Published in: PLOS ONE, Issue 19, 2024, ISSN 1932-6203
Publisher: Public Library of Science (PLoS)
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0311623

Earliest evidence of human occupations and technological complexity above the 45th North parallel in Western Europe. The site of Lunery-Rosieres la-Terre-des-Sablons (France, 1.1 Ma)

Author(s): Jackie Despriée, Marie-Hélène Moncel, Gilles Courcimault, Pierre Voinchet, Jean-Claude Jouanneau, Jean-Jacques Bahain
Published in: Scientific Reports, Issue 14, 2024, ISSN 2045-2322
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-024-66980-4

Sustained North Atlantic warming drove anomalously intense MIS 11c interglacial

Author(s): Hsun-Ming Hu, Gianluca Marino, Carlos Pérez-Mejías, Christoph Spötl, Yusuke Yokoyama, Jimin Yu, Eelco Rohling, Akihiro Kano, Patrick Ludwig, Joaquim G. Pinto, Véronique Michel, Patricia Valensi, Xin Zhang, Xiuyang Jiang, Horng-Sheng Mii, Wei-Yi Chien, Hsien-Chen Tsai, Wen-Hui Sung, Chia-Hao Hsu, Elisabetta Starnini, Marta Zunino, Chuan-Chou Shen
Published in: Nature Communications, Issue 15, 2024, ISSN 2041-1723
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-024-50207-1

The First Occupations of Western Europe: Dispersals and Population Dynamics in the Early to Middle Pleistocene

Author(s): Carolina Cucart-Mora, Diego Lombao, Antonio Pineda, Bruno Boemke, Beniamino Mecozzi, Marie-Hélène Moncel
Published in: Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory, Issue 33, 2025, ISSN 1072-5369
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
DOI: 10.1007/S10816-025-09752-2

Middle Pleistocene Hippopotamuses from the Italian Peninsula: An Overview

Author(s): Beniamino Mecozzi, Alessio Iannucci, Marta Arzarello, Marco Carpentieri, Marie-Hélène Moncel, Carlo Peretto, Benedetto Sala, Raffaele Sardella
Published in: Quaternary, Issue 7, 2024, ISSN 2571-550X
Publisher: MDPI AG
DOI: 10.3390/quat7020020

Vegetation and climate dynamics in the south-western mediterranean during MIS 37–31 (∼1.25 - ∼1. 06 Ma): Insights from the marine core ODP site 976

Author(s): Maé Catrain, Nathalie Combourieu-Nebout, Vincent Lebreton, Séverine Fauquette, Odile Peyron, Morgane Fries, Patricia Richard, Lionel Dubost, Sébastien Joannin, Jean-Pierre Suc, Emin Paquier Comas, Jeanne Lepelletier, Marie-Hélène Moncel
Published in: Quaternary Science Reviews, Issue 369, 2025, ISSN 0277-3791
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/J.QUASCIREV.2025.109635

Reevaluating the “elephant butchery area” at the Middle Pleistocene site of Notarchirico (MIS 16) (Venosa Basin, Basilicata, Italy)

Author(s): Antonio Pineda, Beniamino Mecozzi, Alessio Iannucci, Marco Carpentieri, Raffaele Sardella, Rivka Rabinovich, Marie-Hélène Moncel
Published in: Quaternary Science Reviews, Issue 331, 2024, ISSN 0277-3791
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2024.108603

Petrographic and Size Analysis of Lithic Artifacts of Loreto (Early Middle Pleistocene, Basilicata, Italy) to Support Insight on the Site Lithic Industry and Human Behavior

Author(s): Giacomo Eramo, Giovanna Fioretti, Jacopo Conforti, Marco Carpentieri, Marie-Hélène Moncel
Published in: Heritage, Issue 8, 2025, ISSN 2571-9408
Publisher: MDPI AG
DOI: 10.3390/HERITAGE8060228

A taphonomic and spatial distribution study of the new levels of the middle Pleistocene site of Notarchirico (670–695 ka, Venosa, Basilicata, Italy)

Author(s): Moncel, Marie-Hélène; Lemorini, Cristina; Eramo, Giacomo; Fioretti, Giovanna; Daujeard, Camille; Curci, Antonio; Berto, Claudio; Hardy, Bruce; Pineda, Antonio; Rineau, Valentin; Carpentieri, Marco; Sala, Benedetto; Arzarello, Marta; Mecozzi, Beniamino; Iannucci, Alessio; Sardella, Rafaelle; Piperno, Marcello
Published in: Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences, Issue 15:106, 2023, ISSN 1866-9565
Publisher: Springer
DOI: 10.1007/S12520-023-01809-1

Update and synthesis of the available archaeological and geochronological data for the Lower Paleolithic site of Loreto at Venosa (Basilicata, Italy)

Author(s): Pereira A., Bahain, J- J., Moncel M-H., Nomade S., Voinchet P., Falguères C., Lefèvre D., Raynal J.-P., Scao V.
Published in: Quaternary Research, Issue 1-16, 2024, ISSN 0033-5894
Publisher: Academic Press
DOI: 10.1017/qua.2023.71

Conference proceedings (1)

The lithic legacy of Loreto: a technological perspective on early hominin toolmaking during the Lower Palaeolithic

Author(s): Marco Carpentieri, Giovanna Fioretti, Antonio Pineda, Beniamino Mecozzi, Alessio Iannucci, Giacomo Eramo, Marta Arzarello, Suzanne Simone, Marie-Hélène Moncel
Published in: Historical Biology, 2025, ISSN 0891-2963
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
DOI: 10.1080/08912963.2025.2530773