Jacopo Gennai- Doctor of Philosophy
- Researcher at University of Pisa
Jacopo Gennai
- Doctor of Philosophy
- Researcher at University of Pisa
Lithic technology in the Mediterranean and neighbouring regions between the MP to the early UP
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Introduction
I am a Marie Sklodowska Curie Actions fellow based at the Department of Civilisations and Forms of Knowledge at Pisa University (project acronym MobiliTy). I obtained my Ph.D. at the University of Cologne researching the comparability of EUP bladelet industries. Earlier, I obtained my Master's at Ferrara University working on the Late MP of Fumane Cave.
My main research interest is the investigation of the Middle to Upper Palaeolithic Transition, especially the techno-economical changes.
Current institution
Additional affiliations
January 2018 - August 2022
Position
- PhD Student and Guest Researcher
Description
- PhD candidate in the CRC 806 - Our way to Europe Subproject B1- The Eastern Trajectory. Guest Researcher
April 2017 - September 2017
Position
- Intern
Description
- Techno-tipological analysis of Les Cottès (FR) Mousterian lithics
Education
February 2015 - March 2017
September 2011 - February 2015
Publications
Publications (14)
Book review of Giulia Marciani's "Flexibility of the Levallois Concept in the Italian Late Middle Palaeolithic. A view from the Oscurusciuto rockshelter"
New radiocarbon, lithic, faunal, and documentary analyses of two sites, Buca della Iena and Grotta del Capriolo, excavated in the 1970s, enhance our understanding of late Neanderthal settlement in the northwestern Italian peninsula and provide insights into their demise.
Reassessment of stratigraphical and fieldwork documentation identified areas o...
Background The Mousterian technocomplex is commonly associated with Neanderthals and therefore serves as a proxy for their presence across Europe. Stratified archaeological sites are the most informative because they can yield information about artefacts' spatial distribution and dating. Only a few of the Mousterian sites in Tuscany (Italy) met the...
The Mousterian technocomplex is commonly associated with Neanderthals and therefore serves as a proxy for their presence across Europe. Stratified archaeological sites are the most informative because they can yield information about artefacts' spatial distribution and dating. Only a few of the Mousterian sites in Tuscany (Italy) met these conditio...
The early Upper Palaeolithic marks a technological turning point in Western Eurasia, evidenced by the increased spread of bladelet production. The two main technocomplexes, the Aurignacian and the Ahmarian, have long histories of research and have always formed part of the debate on the Homo sapiens dispersal into Europe, with changing interpretati...
The Ahmarian is the earliest fully fledged Upper Palaeolithic Levantine industry, and its hallmark is the el-Wad point, assumed to be a projectile implement. The Ahmarian is a blade-bladelet volumetric industry; however, bladelet production has frequently been portrayed as undifferentiated or secondary to blade production. El-Wad points are blades...
Successful European Postdoctoral MSCA Part B proposal
The Aurignacian is one of the first cultural-technological traditions commonly associated with the expansion of Homo sapiens in Europe. Early Homo sapiens demographics across the continent are therefore typically inferred using the distribution of Aurignacian assemblages. Western Romania has been used as a tie-point to connect the well-researched l...
The early Upper Palaeolithic marks the introduction at a continental scale of a fully-fledged laminar industry, and it is associated with the presence of Homo sapiens in the Near East and in Europe.For this period there are three commonly recognised early Upper Palaeolithic technocomplexes: the Early Aurignacian and the Protoaurignacian, in Europe,...
The dissertation addresses the technological variability in the European and Levantine early Upper Palaeolithic (eUP). The eUP is often linked to the major dispersal event of H. sapiens into Europe and the final affirmation of our species into the Eurasian continent over the 43–38 ka cal BP timespan. The main feature is the introduction of bladelet...
The technological dichotomy between Discoid and Levallois methods, which accompanies the Mousterian assemblages for most of the Middle Paleolithic, is a debated topic because of the implications for Neanderthals’ behavioral complexity. We here propose and discuss the possible reasons supporting the Levallois-Discoid shift, considering part of the l...
Results produced from 2014 and 2016 archaeological campaigns at Fumane Cave are here presented. The campaigns have been devoted to the excavation of contexts A11 and A10, lying at the base of the Macro-unit A Mousterian sequence with an estimated date of >48 ka cal BP. The excavation took place in the eastern part of the cave entrance with a combin...
Grotta di Fumane (VR), with its dense cultural sequence spanning from 80 ky BP to 30 ky BP plays, a pivotal role in studies concerning the late Middle and the early Upper Palaeolithic. Here, a Late Mousterian Levallois unipolar recurrent assemblage is presented. It belongs to the units A10-A11, which underlie unit A9, dated to a minimum of 47,6 ky...
ABSTRACT
English
Grotta di Fumane (VR) plays a pivotal role in studies regarding the Late Middle Palaeolithic and the early Upper Palaeolithic. Here is presented a Late Mousterian lithic assemblage coming from units A11-A10, dated to >48 ka cal BP and situated at the base of the site Late Mousterian archaeological sequence. Late Mousterian comprehe...
Questions
Question (1)
I'm analysing a Late Mousterian lithic assemblage, some pieces show the removal of the overhang (corniche). The point of impact is generally much lower, thus the overhang removal wouldn't be helpful in the flaking process. Also, negatives of overhang removal are superimposed (subsequent) to the dorsal face negatives, thus it is not related to their flaking.
