Early European evidence of artificial cranial modification from the Italian Late Upper Palaeolithic Arene Candide Cave

Early European evidence of artificial cranial modification from the Italian Late Upper Palaeolithic Arene Candide Cave

Abstract This study reports on early Eurasian evidence of artificial cranial modification (ACM) in a Late Upper Palaeolithic (LUP) individual (AC12) from Arene Candide Cave, Italy (ca. 12,620–12,190 Cal BP). We used virtual anthropology and geometric morphometrics to compare AC12’s cranial morpholog...

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Main Authors: Tommaso Mori, Vitale Stefano Sparacello, Alessandro Riga, Giorgia Ciappi, Dario Ferrari, Francesca Seghi, Fabio Di Vincenzo, Monica Zavattaro, Filippo Pasquinelli, Roberto Carpi, Marco Peresani, Federica Fontana, Luca Sineo, Jacopo Moggi-Cecchi, Irene Dori
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2025-07-01
Series:Scientific Reports
Subjects:
Human body culturalization
Permanent body modifications
Virtual anthropology
Geometric morphometrics
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-025-13561-8
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