Some pictures from #Oscurusciuto rock shelter (Ginosa, southern Italy) 2023 & 2024!

#MiddlePalaeolithic #Neanderthal

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My #review of Giulia Marciani's monograph on the Late Mousterian of Oscurusciuto (Southern Italy) is on Lithic Technology. I totally recommend it!
link to the review shorturl.at/Jotx9
link to the book shorturl.at/wCmcH
#archaeology#palaeolithic @barpublishing.bsky.social@tandfresearch.bsky.social

🏺Intriguing new paper identifying lithic elements in recent layer of Late Middle Palaeolithic at Riparo l'Oscurusciuto, s. Italy: blades & bladelets, levallois points & micropoints. Comparisons with Neronien, but we need to be cautious eg recent Le Moustier work
link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Congratulations to MA student Mckenzie Strath who won the Graduate Poster Prize at the 2026 CAA Annual Conference. Mckenzie won for her poster “Neanderthal Fire-Making at Oscurusciuto Rock Shelter: Micromorphological Evidence from SU 13.”