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La terra degli Elefanti

Lithic and bone industries of OIS 9 and OIS 7 in the roman area - Anzidei A.P., Biddittu I., Gioia P., Mussi M., Piperno M. - p. 3

Distribution in space and time and analysis of preservation factors of the Pleistocene deposits - Arnoldus-Huyzendveld A., Zarlenga F., Gioia P., Palombo M.R. - p. 10

Updating Middle Pleistocene fossil birds from Quartaccio quarry (Vitinia, Rome, Italy) - Bedetti C. - p. 18

La tecnica di scheggiatura bipolare applicata ai ciottoli - Considerazioni su un lavoro di scheggiatura sperimentale - Cancellieri E., Coppola A., D'Angelo E., Di Leo R., Rinaldi M.F., Rossi D. - p. 23

The Roman area natural environment: geomorphological features and lithic resources - Caputo C., Arnoldus-Huyzendveld A., Pugliese F. - p. 27

Sito ad Elephas antiquus nel Pleistocene medio di Colleferro (Roma) - Celletti P., Giovinazzo C., Molinaro A., Biddittu I., Zarattini A. - p. 34

Middle Pleistocene geology of the "Bassa Campagna Romana" - De Rita D., Zarlenga F. - p. 38

Middle and Upper Pleistocene natural environment in the Roman area: climate, vegetation and landscape - Follieri M., Magri D. - p. 43

General geological features of the Campagna Romana - Funiciello R. e Parotto M. - p. 48

The Elephants at the Leonardo da Vinci Institute in Rome - Greco M. - p. 53

Seeing use-wear on the "oldest tools": La Polledrara di Cecanibbio and Casal de' Pazzi (Rome) - Lemorini C. - p. 57

Transitions in human evolution and faunal changes during the Pleistocene in Latium (Central Italy) - Manzi G., Palombo M.R., Caloi L., Mallegni F. - p. 59

Human/carnivore interaction in Middle Pleistocene Latium (Central Italy) - Mussi M., Palombo M.R. - p. 67

Palaeontology and prehistory in Central Italy: an historical summary - Segre A.G. - p. 76

New data on the diversity of Elephants

Proboscidea of the Greek Pliocene-Early Pleistocene faunas: biochronological and palaeoecological implications - Athanassiou A., Kostopoulos D.S. - p. 85

Plio-Pleistocene Proboscidea and Lower Palaeolithic bone industry of Southern Latium (Italy) - Biddittu I., Celletti P. - p. 91

Functional morphology of small-sized deer from the Early and Middle Pleistocene of Italy: implication for paleolandscape reconstruction - Croitor R.V. - p. 97

Functional morphology and ecology of Villafranchian Proboscideans from Central Italy - Ferretti M.P., Croitor R.V. - p. 103

History of Quaternary Proboscideans of the South of Western Siberia inferred from dental system analysis - Foronova I.V. - p. 109

Remains of fossil elephants in Poland - Kubiak H. - p. 115

Contributions to study of Neogene representatives of Ordo Proboscidea (Mammalia) from Eastern Europe - Lungu A., Obada T. - p. 119

On the presence of Elephas recki at the Oldowan prehistoric site of Fejej FJ-1 (Ethiopia) - Moullé P.-E., Echassoux A., Alemseged Z., Desclaux E. - p. 122

Elasmotherians - evolution, distribution and ecology - Noskova N.G. - p. 126

Age of some European localities with elephant remains determined by the biometric method - Pevzner M.A., Vangengeim E.A. - p. 129

"Proboscidean agent" of some Tertiary megafaunal extinctions - Putshkov P.V. - p. 133

Analysis of the Early Pleistocene elephants from Buia (Eritrea) - Rook L., Ferretti M.P., Libsekal Y. - p. 137

Elephas recki from Dandero, Northern Danakil Depression, Eritrea - Shoshani J., Walter R.C., Libsekal Y., Berhe S., Buffler R.T., Negassi B. - p. 143

Proboscidean fossils from the Japanese Archipelago and Taiwan Islands and their relationship with the Chinese mainland - Takahashi K., Chang C.H., Cheng Y.N. - p. 148

Most ancient elephants of the South of Russia - Titov V.V. - p. 152

Pliocene faunas with Proboscideans of the Former Soviet Union - Vislobokova I.A., Sotnikova M.V. - p. 157

Abruzzo (Italy): the Plio-Pleistocene proboscidean-bearing sites - Agostini S., di Canzio E., Rossi M.A. - p. 163

The fauna of La Polledrara di Cecanibbio and Rebibbia-Casal de’ Pazzi (Rome, Italy) as an indicator for site formation processes in a fluvial environment - Anzidei A.P., Cerilli E. - p. 167

Elephants from the delta of Paleo-Don river - Bajgusheva V.S. - p. 172

The Early Palaeolithic butchery site of Barogali (Republic of Djibouti) - Berthelet A., Chavaillon J. - p. 176

Birds over the mammoths' head in Bulgaria - Boev Z. - p. 180

The Mercure River Basin (Southern Italy): Quaternary stratigraphy and large mammal biochronology - Cavinato G.P., Petronio C., Sardella R. - p. 187

The Elephas recki site of Haidalo (Republic of Djibouti) - Chavaillon J., Berthelet A. - p. 191

The Palaeolithic finds from Bollschweil and the question of Neanderthal mammoth hunting in the Black Forest - Conard N.J., Niven L. - p. 194

Finds of Proboscideans remains on the territory of the Southern Urals region - Danukalova G.A., Yakovlev A.G. - p. 201

The elephant remains from the Agro Pontino, Latina, Central Italy - La Rosa M., Mazza P., Rustioni M. - p. 205

The Middle and Late Pleistocene Mammoth remains from Hanhoffen (Bas-Rhin, France) - Louguet S. - p. 209

Spanish Pleistocene Proboscidean diversity as a function of climate - Made van der J., Mazo A.V. - p. 214

Computer-based recording systems of Pleistocene deposits with large mammals - Mora R., Parcerisas J., Martinez J. - p. 219

Middle Pleistocene faunas and lithic implements from Pagliara di Sassa (L'Aquila, Central Italy) - Palombo M.R., Abbazzi L., Agostini S., Mazza P., Mussi M. - p. 224

The Elephant Butchery Area at the Middle Pleistocene site of Notarchirico (Venosa, Basilicata, Italy) - Piperno M., Tagliacozzo A. - p. 230

The American Mastodon Mammut americanum in México - Polaco O.J., Arroyo-Cabrales J., Corona-M. E., López-Oliva J.G. - p. 237

Thaphonomy of Stegodon orientalis at Panxian Dadong, a Middle Pleistocene site in Guizhou, South China - Schepartz L.A., Stoutamire S., Bakken D.A. - p. 243

Late Middle Pleistocene Mammoths and Elephants of the Thames Valley, Oxfordshire - Scott K. - p. 247

Mammal fauna remains in the Middle-Pleistocene volcanic deposits from Northeastern - Sabatini Volcanic District area (Latium, Italy) - Sottili G., Celletti P. - p. 255

The Elephants of Terra Amata open air site (Lower Paleolithic, France) - Valensi P. - p. 260

Reconstruction of the mammoth environments at different stages of the Pleistocene in the West-Siberian Plain - Borodin A.V., Strukova T.V., Trofimova S.S., Zinoviev E.V. - p. 267

Settepolesini di Bondeno (Ferrara-Eastern Po Valley): The first example of mammoth steppe in Italy - Gallini V., Sala B. - p. 272

Reconstruction of Woolly Mammoths life history - Guthrie R.D. - p. 276

New data on mammoth bone dwellings of Eastern Europe in the light of the new excavations of the Ginsy site (Ukraine) - Iakovleva L.A., Djindjian F. - p. 280

Palaeoloxodon naumanni and its environment at paleolithic site of Lake Nojiri, Nagano, Prefecture, Central Japan - Kondo Y., Mazima N., Nojiri-ko Research Group - p. 284

New data on the "Mammoth" fauna of the Laptev Shelf Land (East Siberian Arctic) - Kuznetsova T.V., Sulerzhitsky L.D., Siegert Ch., - p. 289

The Late Pleistocene beast solonetz of Western Siberia: "mineral oasises" in mammoth migration paths, foci of the Palaeolithic man's activity - Leshchinskiy S.V. - p. 293

Eastern European mammoth distribution and environments during Middle Valdai Briansk Interstade (33,000-24,000 B.P.) - Markova A.K., Simakova A.N., Puzachenko A.Yu., Kitaev L.M. - p. 299

The Jarkov Mammoth: 20,000-Year-Old Carcass of a Siberian Woolly Mammoth Mammuthus primigenius (Blumenbach, 1799) - Mol D., Coppens Y., Tikhonov A.N., Agenbroad L.D., MacPhee R. D. E., Flemming C., Greenwood A., Buigues B., de Marliave C., van Geel B., va

The Fishhook Mammoth: rediscovery of a Woolly Mammoth Carcass by the CERPOLEX/Mammuthus Team, Taimyr Peninsula, Siberia - Mol D., Tikhonov A.N., MacPhee R. D. E., Flemming C., Buigues B., de Marliave C., Coppens Y., Agenbroad L.D. - p. 310

Microlithic Middle Palaeolithic assemblages in Central Europe and elephants remains - Moncel M.H. - p. 314

Seasonal hunting of mammoth in the Ach-Valley of the Swabian Jura - Münzel S.C. - p. 318

The role of mammoths in Upper Palaeolithic economies of southern Germany - Niven L. - p. 323

Mammoth from Upper Palaeolithic sites in the Ardèche (France) - Onoratini G., Combier J., Baroni I., Arellano-Moullé A., Joris C. - p. 328

Mammoth and subsistence practices during Mid Upper Palaeolithic in Central Europe (Moravia, Czech Republic) - Péan S. - p. 331

The Pleistocene Gomphotheres (Proboscidea) from South America: diversity, habitats and feeding ecology - Prado J.L., Alberdi M.T., Azanza B., Sánchez B., Frassinetti D. - p. 337

The conditions of the existence of Mammuthus primigenius Blumenbach in the periglacial zone of Eastern Europe - Rekovets L. - p. 341

Comparisons of stegodon and elephantid abundances in the Late Pleistocene of southern China - Saegusa H. - p. 345

Of Mice, Men and Elephants - lithic tools and faunal remains at the Late Pleistocene site of Masangano (Rwanda) - Schmidt U. - p. 350

The vegetation and mammoth distribution during the second half of the Late Pleistocene on the Russian plain (33-17 ka) - Simakova A.A. - p. 355

Gravettian mammoth bone deposits in Moravia - Svoboda J. - p. 359

Man and Mammoth in Pleistocene Siberia - Vasil’ev S.A. - p. 363

The woolly mammoth (Mammuthus primigenius) remains from the Upper Palaeolithic site Kraków Spadzista Street (B) - Wojtal P. - p. 367

The Upper Palaeolithic mammoth site at Halich (Ukraine) - Wojtal P., Cyrek K. - p. 373

Unique preservation of a mammoth carcass - Kubiak H. - p. 376

Two mammoth sites in La Alta Mixteca (Oaxaca), Mexico - Quevedo Robles P., Quevedo de Henella T. - p. 377

Un donario fittile con elefanti e Cerbero dal santuario di Portonaccio a Veio - Ambrosini L. - p. 381

Un frammento marmoreo con testa di elefante dall'area archeologica centrale di Roma - Ciancio Rossetto P., Loreti E.M. - p. 387

Gli elefanti si radunano presso il fiume Amilo - Ferrante M.A. - p. 390

Gli elefanti di Annibale nelle monete puniche e neopuniche - Manfredi L.-I. - p. 394

The elephants at Rome: history, legends and anecdotes - Manni R. - p. 397

Did endemic dwarf elephants survive on Mediterranean islands up to protohistorical times? - Masseti M. - p. 402

L'Arco di Domiziano con quadrighe di elefanti - Volpe R., Loreti E.M. - p. 407

Engraved, painted and carved mammoths of the Rhône basin (Upper Palaeolithic) - Combier J. - p. 411

Tools from elephant bones at La Polledrara di Cecanibbio and Rebibbia-Casal de' Pazzi - Anzidei A.P. - p. 415

Mammoth bone technology at Tocuila in the Basin of Mexico - Arroyo-Cabrales J., Johnson E., Morett L. - p. 419

On the significance of modified mammoth bones from eastern Beringia - Cinq-Mars J. - p. 424

Ex Proboscideis - Proboscidean remains as raw material at four Palaeolithic sites, Hungary Dobosi V.T. - p. 429

The Krems-Wachtberg camp-site: mammoth carcass utilization along the Danube 27,000 years ago Fladerer F.A. - p. 432

Mammoth bone quarrying on the late Wisconsinan North American grasslands - Johnson E. - p. 439

Mammoth tusk processing using the knapping technique in the Upper Paleolithic of the Central Russian Plain - Khlopatchev G.A. - p. 444

The Production of Upper Palaeolithic Mammoth Bone Artifacts from southwestern Germany - Münzel S.C. - p. 448

The utilisation of mammoth remains as raw-material and its importance for the Gravettian people of the German Danube - Scheer A. - p. 455

Ivory points in the Lower Paleolithic of Europe - Villa P., d’Errico F.- p. 460

Ivory as a raw material during the Upper Palaeolithic of the northern edge of the Iberian Peninsula: personal ornaments and other artefacts - Alvarez Fernández E. - p. 464

The hunting of mammoth and the utilization of mammoth bones and ivory in the Rône basin - Combier J., Onoratini G. - p. 465

Mammoth cutlery: mammoth flakes for mammoth steaks - Hannus A. - p. 466

Two centres of the Paleolithic art in the Ukraine: the Mammoth bone objects - Kulakovska L. - p. 467

The variability of the utilisation of mammoth remains from assemblages at three Epigravettian sites in the Northern Ukraine - Nuzhnyi D. - p. 468

Proboscidean bone modification in the Middle/Upper Palaeolithic of the Japanese Islands - Ono A. - p. 469

Ivory pendants in the Belgian Palaeolithic - Otte M. - p. 470

Channel Islands (USA) pygmy mammoths (Mammuthus exilis) compared and contrasted with M. columbi, their continental ancestral stock - Agenbroad L. - p. 473

Large sized and middle sized elephants from the Pleistocene of Sicily. - The case of Contrada Fusco (Siracusa, Southeastern Sicily) - Chilardi S. - p. 476

Palaeoloxodon cypriotes, the dwarf elepant of Cyprus: size and scaling comparisons with P. falconeri (Sicily- Malta) and mainland P.antiquu - Davies P., Lister A.M. - p. 479

Mammuthus lamarmorae (Major, 1883) remains in the pre-Tyrrhenian deposits of San Giovanni in Sinis (Western Sardinia; Italy) - Melis R., Palombo M.R., Mussi M. - p. 481

Endemic elephants of Mediterranean Islands: Knowledge, Problems and Perspectives - Palombo M.R. - p. 486

Paedomorphic features and allometric growth of the Elephas falconeri from Spinagallo (Middle Pleistocene, Sicily) - Palombo M.R. - p. 492

The Middle Pleistocene fossil avifauna from the "Elephas mnaidriensis Fauna Complex" of Sicily (Italy9: preliminary results - Pavia M. - p. 497

Scaling of proximal limb bones between Elephas antiquus and its insular descendant Elephas falconeri - Raia P., Barbera C., Conte M. - p. 502

Ecology and evolution of dwarfing in insular elephants - Roth V.L. - p. 507

New data on Elephas chaniensis (Vamos cave, Chania, Crete) - Symeonides N.K., Theodorou G.E., Giannopoulos V.I. - p. 510

The excavations of the last ten years in the Charkadio cave on Tilos Island, Dodekanese, Greece - Theodorou G.E., Symeonides N.K. - p. 514

The populations of woolly mammoth on the North-East of Siberia - dwarfing in isolation or last stage of extinction? - Tikhonov A., Vartanyan S. - p. 519

Comparative observations on fossil tusks from three Quaternary Greek localities using scanning electron microscopy - Agiadi K. - p. 523

Microwear analysis of Mammuthus meridionalis (Nesti, 1825) molar from Campo del Conte (Frosinone, Italy) - Capozza M. - p. 529

Isotope and microwear analyses on teeth of Late-Middle Pleistocene Elephas antiquus fromthe Rome area - (La Polledrara, Casal de' Pazzi) - Filippi M.L., Palombo M.R., Barbieri M., Capozza M., Iacumin P., Longinelli A. - p. 534

Discreteness of evolution and variability in Mammoths lineage: method for group study - Foronova I.V., Zudin A.N. - p. 540

Phylogenetic position of Elephas, Loxodonta and Mammuthus, based on molecular evidence - Joger U., Garrido G. - p. 544

Preliminary U-series results and dating of faunal remains from Castel di Guido, Italy - Michel V., Yokoyama Y., Boschian G. - p. 548

Genetic data indicate that Mammuthus primigenius includes two species - Rautian G.S., Dubrovo I.A. - p. 552

Observations on the diagenesis of dwarf elephant skeletal remains from the Island of Tilos (Dodekanese, Greece) - Stathopoulou E.T., Theodorou G.E. - p. 557

Observations on the microstructure of fossil tusks from the Charkadio Cave (Tilos, Dodekanese, Greece) - Theodorou G., Agiadi K. - p. 563

Elephant landscapes: human foragers in a world of mammoths, mastodonts, and elephants - Haynes G. - p. 571

Enforcement methods and tools for the elephant ivory - Morgante E., Villa P. - p. 577

The Canadian perspective on the control of elephant products under the Convention of International Trade in Endangered Species of Fauna and Flora (CITES) - Lafleur Y. - p. 581

Current Challenges to elephant conservation in Kenya - Omondi P. - p. 583

Geomorphology and stratigraphy of the Ambrona site (central Spain) - Pérez-González A., Santonja M., Benito A. - p. 587

Lithic artifacts from the lower levels of Ambrona (Spain) -taphonomic features - Santonja M., Pérez-González A. - p. 592

Elephants and stone artifacts in the Middle Pleistocene terraces of the Manzanares river (Madrid, Spain) - Santonja M., Pérez-González A., Vega G., Rus I. - p. 597

Elephants in the archaeological sites of Aridos (Jarama valley, Madrid, Spain) - Santonja M., Pérez-González A., Villa P., Soto E., C. Sesé - p. 602

Mammal fauna with Elephas (Palaeoloxodon) antiquus from the lower levels of Ambrona (Soria, Spain) - Soto E., Sesé C., A. Pérez-González A., Santonja M. 607

The Pleistocene elephants of Portugal - Sousa M.F., Figueiredo S.M. - p. 611

Taphonomy at Ambrona: new perspectives - Villa P., Soto E., Pérez-González A., Mora R. - p. 617

Revisiting Torralba: old questions that generate more questions - Martinez J., Mora R. - p. 620

Elephantoidea in the indonesian region: new Stegodon findings from Flores - Bergh van den G.D., de Vos J., Aziz F., Morwood M.J. - p. 623

Molecular phylogeny of living elephants and discussion on infraspecific systematics of Loxodonta africana and Elephas maximus - Debruyne R. - p. 628

New mitochondrial data demonstrating a close relationship between Mammuthus primigenius (Blumenbach 1799) and Loxodonta africana (Blumenbach 1797) - Debruyne R. - p. 630

The Stegotetrabelodon remains from Cessaniti (Calabria, Southern Italy) and their bearing on late Miocene biogeography of the genus - Ferretti M.P., Torre D., Rook L. 633

New mammal from the Early Eocene of Morocco exemplifying unexpected early diversity of Proboscideans - Gheerbrant E., Sudre J., Cappetta H., Iarochene M., Amaghzaz, Bouya B. - p. 637

Dental formula of elephant by the development - p. 639

Morphologic analysis of hippocampal formation in Elephas maximus and Loxodonta africana with comparison to that of human - Kupsky W.J., Marchant G.H., Cook K., Shoshani J. - p. 643

"Gradual" evolution and molar scaling in the evolution of the mammoth - Lister A.M. - p. 648

A reconstruction of the facial morphology and feeding behaviour of the deinotheres - Markov G.N., Spassov N., Simeonovski V. - p. 652

Schreger lines as support in the Elephantinae identification - Palombo M.R., Villa P. - p. 656

Morphological features in Mammuthus meridionalis and Palaeoloxodon antiquus carpal bones - Reggiani P. 661

A stylohyoideum of Palaeoloxodon antiquus from Gesher Benot Ya'aqov, Israel: morphology and functional inferences - Shoshani J., Goren-Inbar N., Rabinovich R. - p. 665

Hyoid apparatus: a little known complex of bones and its "contribution" to proboscidean evolution - Shoshani J., Marchant G.H. - p. 668

Elephants and other proboscideans: a summary of recent findings and new taxonomic suggestions - Shoshani J., Sanders W.J., Tassy P. - p. 676

New frontiers in proboscideans research - Srivastava R. - p. 680

The timing of early Elephantine differentiation: the palaeontological record, with a short comment on molecular data - Tassy P., Debruyne R. - p. 685

A statistical appraisal of molecular and morphological evidence for mammoth-elepant realtionships - Thomas M.G., Lister A.M. - p. 688

African Elephas recki: time, space and taxonomy - Todd N.E. - p. 693

Last occurence of large mammal and birds in the Late Quaternary of the Italian Peninusula - Bedetti C., Palombo M.R., Sardella R. - p. 701

Mammoths, volcanism and early humans in the basin of Mexico during the Late Pleistocene/Early Holocene - Gonzalez S., Huddart D., Morett-Alatorre L., Arroyo-Cabrales J., Polaco O.J. - p. 704

Late Quaternary biogeography and extinction of Proboscideans in North America - Graham R. Wm. - p. 707

Ancient elephants of West Siberia - Kosintsev P.A., Vorobiev A.A. - p. 710

Human-mammoth (Mammuthus primigenius Blumenbach) inter-relationships in the Palaeolithic of Siberia; a review of current knowledge - Kuzmin Y., Orlova L.A., Stuart A.J., Zenin V.N., Dementiev V.N. - p. 714

Chronology and environment of woolly mammoth (Mammuthus primigenius Blumenbach) extinction in northern Asia - Orlova L.A., Kuzmin Y.V., Stuart A.J., Tikhonov A.N. - p. 718

The Late Quaternary extinction of woolly mammoth (Mammuthus primigenius), straight-tusked elephant (Palaeoloxodon antiquus) and other megafauna in Europe - Stuart A.J., Lister A.M. - p. 722

Landscape, climate and mammoth food resources in the East European Plain during the Late Paleolithic epoch - Velichko A.A., Zelikson E.M. - p. 724

L'avorio in Italia durante l'Età del Bronzo - Vagnetti L., Bettelli M., Damiani I. - p. 731

L'avorio dell'abitato protostorico di Frattesina (Rovigo, Italia) - Bietti Sestieri A.M., De Grossi Mazzorin J. - p. 735

Indice degli Autori - Authors Index