Personal Information
Family name, First name: Peresani, Marco
Researcher unique identifier: ORCID=0000-0001-6562-6336
Date of birth: 02/11/1963
Nationality: Italian
URL for web site: http://docente.unife.it/marco.peresani
Contact Information
University of Ferrara
Dipartimento di Studi Umanistici
Corso Ercole I d’Este, 32
I-44100 Ferrara, Italy
Tel: +39-532-293724
Fax: +39-532-206581
E-mail: marco.peresani@unife.it
URL for web site: http://docente.unife.it/marco.peresani
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Marco-Peresani
https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marco_Peresani
Present Appointment
2022 Full Professor at the University of Ferrara, Department of Humanities
2014-2022 Associate Professor at the University of Ferrara, Department of Humanities
1993-2014 - Researcher at the University of Ferrara, Department of Humanities
Education 1989- 1992: Society of the Universities of Bologna, Ferrara and Parma
Ph.D: Anthropological Science
• Topic. The prehistoric peopling of Europe. Adaptations to dry and cold environments on the southern alpine slope.
1982- 1988: Dipartimento di Scienze Geologiche, University of Ferrara
BA/MA: Geological Science
• Topic. The Pleistocene sequence of Grotta di San Bernardino. Sedimentological and paleopedological study of sediments and techno-typological analysis of the lithic industries.
Presentation
Marco Peresani is Full Professor at the Department of Humanities, Unit of Prehistory and Anthropology Sciences, the University of Ferrara. Since 1993 he designs and coordinates research projects focused on the human populations in Mediterranean Europe, particularly the north of Italy, the Alps and the Adriatic Basin. Specifically, his investigations focus on Neanderthal cultures and behavior, Neanderthal – Homo sapiens bio-cultural substitution, Last Glacial Maximum and the colonization of mountain ranges during the Late Glacial and Early Holocene. As a geoarcheologist, he also contributes to reconstructing depositional and post-depositional processes at cave and open-air sites. Using lithic technology as primary research tool, he reconstructs hunter-gatherers’ settlement dynamics and reveals the existence of behavioural variability across the Middle Palaeolithic, the transition to the Upper Palaeolithic, the Gravettian and the Epigravettian until the Early mesolithic. He conducts fieldwork at many sites in the Italian Alps and the Apennines, among which primarily Grotta di Fumane with its remarkable cultural sequence. He conducts archaeological missions in Albania and collaborates with research teams in China, Romania, France, Spain, Germany and other countries. His publication list includes edited books and over 400 papers published as articles in peer-review journals, chapters in volumes and conference proceedings.
Major on-going projects
• PI of I Cammini della Preistoria and Ecomuseo projects on the Palaeolithic in Central Italy granted by Ufficio Superiore Ricostruzione Comuni Cratere Sismico.
• Co-PI with Elisa Nicoud (CEPAM, France) of projects on the Middle Palaeolithic in Central Italy granted by Ècole Française de Rome.
• Collaborative member of projects headed by Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, the Chinese Academy of Science, on the Middle Palaeolithic in China.
• Collaborative member of ERC starting and consolidator projects on the Middle and Early Upper Palaeolithic in Europe.
• Research at Grotta di Fumane: the Middle– Upper Paleolithic transition in Northern Italy. Fieldwork and investigations on Neandertal – Modern Humans interaction.
• Research on the final Middle Paleolithic in Northeast Italy. Investigations on sites and cultural materials in northern and central Italy.
• The Palaeolithic of Southern Albania. Survey on the Middle and Late Palaeolithic.
• The Late-glacial human colonization of the eastern Italian Alps and Appenine. Fieldwork and research in Veneto, Trentino, Friuli, Emilia Romagna, and Marche.
Archaeological surveys and excavations
• Grotta di Fumane: cave, Middle Palaeolithic and Early Upper Palaeolithic, Venetian Pre-Alps: from 1993 to 2005 as Co-director; from 2006 to present as Director
• Grotta del Rio Secco: cave, Middle Palaeolithic, Carnic Pre-Alps: 2010-present
• Grotta De Nadale: cave, Middle Palaeolithic, Berici Hills, Veneto: 2014-present
• Piovesello: open site, Mid-Late Palaeolithic, Northern Appennine, 2013-present
• Grotta del Clusantin: cave, Late Upper Palaeolithic, Carnic Pre-Alps: 2002-2005
• Cansiglio Plateau: open air sites, Late Upper Paleolithic and Mesolithic, Venetian Pre-Alps: 1993-2002; 2017-present
• Val Lastari: open air site, Late Upper Paleolithic, Asiago Plateau, Venetian Pre-Alps: 1990-1996
Current and Past Teaching Appointments at the University of Ferrara Masters-level teaching:
• Course Director and Tutor, Department of Humanities, University of Ferrara; “Chronology and Cultures of the Palaeolithic”: 2007- present
• Course Director and Tutor, Department of Environmental Science and Prevention, University of Ferrara; “Pedology and post-depositional disturbance”: 2023- present
Undergraduate-level teaching:
• Course Director and Tutor, Department of Evolutionary Biology, University of Ferrara; “Prehistoric Ecology”: 1997- 2011
• Course Director and Tutor, Department of Evolutionary Biology, University of Ferrara; “Quaternary Geology”: 1999- 2011
• Course Director and Tutor, Department of Evolutionary Biology, University of Ferrara; “Pedoarchaeology”: 2004- 2011
Other Teaching Appointments
• Visiting Lecturer, University Tubingen, 2018
• Visiting Lecturer, University Montreal, 2017
• Visiting Lecturer, Universitat Rovira I Virgili, 2010
• Field-lessons “Experimental Archaeozoology”: 2006
• Lecturer, University of Trento, 2004
• Visiting Lecturer, Universitè Aix-en-Provence, 2000 and 2004
• Visiting Lecturer, Université de Paris I, 2002
Supervisory Appointments at Ferrara and Other Universities
Ph.D. Supervisor
Scientific Advisory Board for PhD in Biologia Evoluzionistica e Ambientale; Scienze e Tecnologie per l'Archeologia e i Beni Culturali; Human Sciences. Università di Ferrara: 2005-present.
• Quaternary, Prehistory and Anthropology: 10 students graduated since 2011
• Anthropological Sciences: 1 student graduated in 2005
Masters Tutor
• Course on Prehistoric Sciences and on Quaternary, Prehistory and Archaeology, Ferrara: over 60 students graduated since 2005
Undergraduate Tutor
• Courses on Technologies for Cultural Heritage, on Natural Sciences, on Earth Sciences, Ferrara : over 27 student graduated since 1996
• Courses on Earth Sciences, Archaeology, Cultural Heritage: Milano, Padova, Bologna, Venezia : 25 students graduated since 1993
Referee for Post-Doctoral Contracts, University of Ferrara Subjects: Grotta di Fumane, Grotta De Nadale, Grotta del Rio Secco, Riparo del Broion, Grotta del Col de la Stria, Piovesello, Grotta del Clusantin and other Epigravettian sites. Archaeozoology of the Mousterian levels; analysis of animal hard material used to produce tools, ornamental objects or for consumption of the Aurignacian; lithic production and use living space by H. Neanderthalensis. Study of the Mousterian lithic industry of Fumane; functional analysis of Uluzzian and final Mousterian industries; analysis of palaeoliving floors; technology and function: use of traceological analysis for reconstructing Epigravettian subsistence strategies in Northern Italy.
Referee for Post-Graduate Fellowships, University of Ferrara Subjects: Grotta di Fumane, Grotta De Nadale, Grotta del Rio Secco, Riparo del Broion, Grotta del Col de la Stria, Piovesello, Grotta del Clusantin other Epigravettian sites. Study of spatial distribution of artefacts and ecofacts at Fumane; technological and typological analysis of Mousterian lithic implements; functional analysis of the epigravettian lithic industry; geoarchaeological studies, survey, documentation and interpretation of field data.
Member Advisory Board of Research centers and companies
• Advisory Board of Genomic Archaeology Research center Tubingen: 2024-present
• Scientific Committee of ArchaeoVea, Parma: 2025
Memberships of scientific societie
• Steering Council of Italian Quaternary Association (AIQUA): 2006-2009; 2015-present
• Collaborator of the Istituto Italiano di Preistoria e Protostoria (IIPP): since 1994
• Italian Association of Anthropologists (AAI): since 1992
• VIII Commission of International Union of Prehistoric and Protohistoric Sciences (UISPP): since 2006
• XXVII Commission of International Union of Prehistoric and Protohistoric Sciences (UISPP): since 2006
• Ordinary Academic of the Olimpic Academy, Vicenza: since 2014
• Research Network “ESHE - European Society for the study of Human Evolution” (2011-present).
Memberships of Peer Reviewed Journal Boards
• Academic Editor, PLoS ONE, since 2016
• Associate Editor, Alpine and Mediterranean Quaternary, 2020-2025
• Guest Editor, Quaternary International, 2016 and 2021
• Member of the Scientific Committee of Gallia Préhistoire, Paléo, Bullettin de la Societè Prèhistorique Française, P@lethnologie, Gortania, Archeologia Veneta, Bullettino di Paletnologia Italiana, Il Quaternario.
• Reviewer for Current Anthropology, Journal of Archaeological Science, Journal of Human Evolution, PLoS ONE, Quaternary International, Paléo, Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory, Bullettin Societè Prèhistorique Française, Science, Bullettino Paletnologia Italiana, Royal Society Open Science.
• Elsevier Oustanding Reviewer in 2015
Memberships of Museum Scientific Committees
• National Archeological Museum Verona: 2020
• Musem of Villabruna Palaeolithic burial: 2024
• Eco-Anthropological Museum Cansiglio (BL): 2002
• Archeological Museum Torre (PN): 2003
• Livelet Archeological Parc, Revine Lago (TV): since 2005
Organization of Scientific Sessions and Meetings
• Understanding Neanderthal symbolic and cultural behaviour and their cognitive underpinnings. Where do we stand? Theme 6, A Decade after the ‘Third Science Revolution in Archaeology’, 28th EAA Annual Meeting Budapest, Hungary, with D. Leder e A. Majkić, Session n. 85, 1 september 2022
• Le scienze della Preistoria e Protostoria: Paleoecologia, Archeobiologia, Applicazioni digitali e Archeometria. LVI Riunione Scientifica, Istituto Italiano di Preistoria e Protostoria, Ferrara, with Marta Arzarello, Federica Fontana, Ursula Thun Hohenstein, 20-23 october.
• Rediscovering the Uluzzian. A Leakey Foundation Project. Workshop, Ferrara, Dipartimento di Studi Umanistici, november 2016.
• Ricostruire l’evoluzione dell’interazione uomo-ambiente. Applicazioni e prospettive, Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra. Workshop AIQUA Firenze, february 2016.
• Humankind and the avian world: archaeological and zooarchaeological evidence for inferring behavioural evolutionary signatures. XVII Congresso UISPP, Burgos, september 2014, in collaboration with R.Blasco.
• Les sociétés de l’Allerød et du Dryas récent entre Atlantique et Méditerranée. Société Préhistorique Française. Universitè Bordeaux, May 2012, in collaboration with M. Langlais and N. Naudinot.
• Flakes Not Blades - Discussing the role of flake making at the onset of the Upper Palaeolithic, Workshop, Neanderthal Museum, March 2011, in collaboration with A. Pastoors and G.C. Weniger.
• Neanderthals and Anatomically Modern Humans in Italy. Palaeogeography, ecology and culture in the isotopic stage 3, XVIII Congress of the Anthropology Italian Association. A session organised by A.A.I. and Italian Quaternary Association (AIQUA), October 2009, Florence, in collaboration with C. Ravazzi
Attendance of meetings and workshops
• Over 350 national and international scientific meetings and workshops have been attended and over 250 podium presentations and posters have been contributed.
Administrative Experience in Educational Institutions
• Ph.D. Academic Committee in Anthropological Science. Society of the Universities of Bologna, Ferrara and Parma: 1993-2006
• Ph.D. Academic Committee in ‘Scienze e Tecnologie per l'Archeologia e i Beni Culturali’. Society of the Universities of Ferrara, Modena and Siena: 2006- present
• Academic Committee for Post-Doctoral Contracts – member. University of Ferrara: 2007- present
• Director of Experimental Archaeozoological Stages. University of Ferrara: 2006-2008
• Director of the Summer Schools: 1) Didactics in Palaeolithic Archaeology; 2) Prehistoric Lithic technology; 3) Human – bird interaction in the past and today. University of Ferrara: 2015, 2023
Major Collaborations
Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany; ORAU, University of Oxford and Mac Donald Institute, University of Cambrige, UK; Universität Tübingen, Urgeschichte und Naturwissenschaftliche Archäologie; IPHES, University of Tarragona, Spain; Geoscience, Southern Cross University, Australia; Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, Germany; Université de Liége, Service de Préhistoire, Belgium; Institut de Paléontologie Humaine, Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle; University of Nice Sophia Antipolis, CNRS UMR 7264 CEPAM, Nice, France; University of Adelaide, Adelaide, Australia; Leiden University, Faculty of Archaeology, Leiden, Netherlands; Institute of Anthropology, Zagabria, Croazia; Academy of Sciences, Department of Archaeology, Tirana, Albania; Simon Fraser University, Department of Archaeology, British Columbia, Canada; University of Applied Sciences and Arts - SUPSI, Institute of Materials and Constructions, Canobbio, Svizzera; Dipartimento di Scienze dell’Antichità, Università degli Studi di Roma “La Sapienza”, Italy; Dipartimento Scienze della Terra, Università Milano I; Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche; Neanderthal Museum.
National and international grants achieved as Principal Investigator • Le Paléolithique ancien et moyen d’Italie centrale: territoires et évolutions techniques. In co-direzione con Elisa Nicoud (CNRS). École Française de Rome: ongoing since 2016
• Rediscovering the Uluzzian in Italy. (2015/2016 general grant) Partners: Università Bologna e Università Siena. Leakey Foundation, USA. 05-05-2015 - 31-01-2017
• L’Ultimo Neandertal in Friuli. Tra Ricerca, Tutela e Valorizzazione, un Laboratorio Archeologico permanente: Grotta del Rio Secco, Altopiano di Pradis. Regione Friuli Venezia – Giulia, Centro Regionale di Catalogazione e Restauro: 2013-2014
• Neanderthal and the oldest evidence of body adornment with feathers. Excavation at Grotta di Fumane, Italy. National Geographic Society, Committee for Research and Exploration, 9022-11: 2011-2013
• Pratiche venatorie e dinamiche comportamentali degli ultimi cacciatori paleolitici del Trentino. Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio Trento e Rovereto: 2009-2011
• Il sito di Riva del Garda – via Brione (Trento). Approccio tecnologico e tipologico all’industria litica di un abitato del secondo stile della Cultura dei Vasi a Bocca Quadrata. Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio Trento e Rovereto: 2008-2009
• La Grotta di Fumane, gli ultimi Neandertaliani e i primi sapiens nei Monti Lessini. Progetto di ricerca archeologica. Fondazione CARI Verona & Regione del Veneto –Dipartimento Cultura: 2001÷2010
• Grants sourced from Università di Ferrara – Fondo Ricerca Ateneo
• 2006÷2007 - Ambiente, popolamento e strategie di sussistenza nel Pleistocene dell’area alto-medio adriatica. Casi di studio.
• 2008÷2011 - Biogeografia, cronologia e comportamento degli ultimi neandertaliani. Elementi di confronto.
• 2012÷2014 - Biogeografia, culture, economie del popolamento pleistocenico in Italia. Elementi di valutazione.
• Since 2016 – Fondo Ateneo Ricerca UniFe.
Publications
• Handbooks, edited books, book chapters, articles and commentaries in English, Italian and French have been published as articles in peer-reviewed journals like Nature, Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, Journal of Human Evolution, Journal of Archaeological Anthropology, Journal of Archaeological Science, Quaternary Science Reviews, PlosOne, Journal of Quaternary International, and others and chapters in volumes and conference proceedings. Other publications are presentations of scientific volumes and over 140 abstracts and extended abstracts
Bibliometrics
• 394 (handbooks, edited books, book chapters, peer reviewed papers, non-peer reviewed papers)
• Number of total Scopus indexed papers: 163 (Scopus)
• Number of total Scopus Citations: 5838
• Scopus h‐index: 38 (Scopus, updated to 23.11.2025)
Outreach and Scientific collaboration to the arrangement of museum sections and exhibitions
• Collaborative consultance to museums, didactics on archaeology and anthropology projects, publication of over 50 guides of scientific excursions, large public books, notes and touristic panels, presentations of scientific volumes; 140 abstracts and extended abstracts; 4 books and 15 articles for public audiences; 12 panels; 7 museum guides; and several archaeological itineraries and maps.
• Collaboration to Cultural Heritage initiatives: Raccontare per immagini. Verona - Museo Archeologico Nazionale: 2017-2018.
• Scientific collaboration to museum sections projects: Sezione di Paleoantropologia, Museo di Storia Naturale di Milano, 2023; Sezione Preistorica del Museo Civico Archeologico “A.G. Silverj, 2021; Museo Preistorico-paleontologico di Sant’Anna D’Alfaedo (VR), 1996, 2001; Museo della Grotta, Pradis-Clauzetto, 2001, 2007; Museo Archeologico di Torre, Pordenone, 2006; Museo Archeologico di Treviso, Anno 2007; Museo dell’Uomo e del Cansiglio, 2011.
• Scientific collaboration to temporary exhibitions projects: “Sapiens. Da cacciatore a cyborg”, Museo di Storia Naturale e Archeologia, Montebelluna; “Homo sapiens”, Roma, Novara, Milano; "Cambio de Imagen. Una nueva visión de Los Neandertales”, Museo de la Evolución Humana; "VR60768. Anthropomorphic figure”, Italian Art Promotion, Camera dei Deputati, Roma; “Antiche città e paesaggi di Albania”, Tirana; "preHISTORIA CONTEMPORANEA”, Università di Ferrara; “Estinzioni”, MUSE.
• Collaboration to documentaries, television programs, reviews, podcasts.
LIST OF MOST RELEVANT PUBLICATIONS
Selection of edited books and 25 most relevant publications
Edited Books
Peretto C., Sala B., Arzarello M., Fontana F., Lembo G., Peresani M., Thun-Hohenstein U. (a cura di), 2020, Le ricerche preistoriche dell’Università di Ferrara. Dipartimento di Studi Umanistici, Mimesis/UniFeStUm, Vol. 9 (2022), pp. 295.
Langlais M., Naudinot N., Peresani M. (eds.), 2014, Les groupes culturels de la transition Pléistocène-Holocène entre Atlantique et Adriatique. Actes de la séance de la Société préhistorique française, Bordeaux 24-25 may 2015, Séances de la Société préhistorique française Paris, 3, pp. 205-220, ISBN 2-913745-56-3.
Pastoors A., Peresani M. (Eds.), 2012 Flakes Not Blades - Discussing the role of flake making at the onset of the Upper Palaeolithic, Proceedings of the Workshop, Wissenschaftliche Schriften des Neanderthal Museums, 5.
Peresani M. (Ed.), 2003, Discoid Lithic Technology. Advances and Implications. British Archaeological Reports, International Series, 1120, Oxford.
Journal articles
1. Peresani M., Fiore I., Gala M., Romandini M., Tagliacozzo A., 2011. Late Neandertals and the intentional removal of feathers as evidenced from bird bone taphonomy at Fumane cave 44ky BP, Italy. Proceedings National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 108, 3888-3893.
2. Higham T., Douka K., Wood R., Bronk Ramsey C., Brock F., ……….. Peresani M., et al., 2014. The timing and spatio-temporal patterning of Neanderthal disappearance. Nature, 512, 306-309.
3. Fu Q., Posth C., Hajdinjak M., Petr M., Mallick S., … Peresani M., et al., 2016. The genetic history of Ice Age Europe. Nature, 534, 200-205.
4. Benazzi S., Slon V., Talamo S., Negrino F., Peresani M., et al., 2015. The makers of the Protoaurignacian and implications for Neandertal extinction. Science, 348 (6236), 793-796.
5. Peresani M., Vanhaeren M., Quaggiotto E., Queffelec A., d’Errico F., 2013. An ochered fossil marine shell from the Mousterian of Fumane Cave, Italy. PLosOne, 8(7), e68572.
6. Peresani M., Cristiani E., Romandini M., 2016. The Uluzzian technology of Grotta di Fumane and its implication for reconstructing cultural dynamics in the Middle – Upper Palaeolithic transition of Western Eurasia. Journal of Human Evolution 91, 36-56.
7. Naudinot N.A., Tomasso A., Tozzi C., Peresani M., 2014. Changes in mobility patterns as a factor of 14C date density variation in the Late Epigravettian of Northern Italy and Southeastern France. Journal of Archaeological Science, 52, 578-590.
8. Romandini M., Terlato G., Nannini N., Tagliacozzo A., Benazzi S., Peresani M., 2018. Bears and Humans, a Neanderthal tale. Reconstructing uncommon behaviors from zooarchaeological evidence in Southern Europe. Journal of Archaeological Science, 90, 71-91.
9. Terlato G., Bocherens H., Romandini M., Nannini N., Hobson K.A., Peresani M., 2019. Chronological and Isotopic data support a revision for the timing of cave bear extinction in Mediterranean Europe. In : Figueirido B., Van Heteren A.H. (Eds.), Recent advances on the palaeoecology, evolution and extinction of the Cave Bear (Ursus spelaeus). Historical Biology, 31/4, 474-484.
10. Peresani M., Bertola S., Delpiano D., Benazzi S., Romandini M., 2019. The Uluzzian in the north of Italy. Insights around the new evidence at Riparo Broion Rockshelter. Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences, 11(7), 3503-3536.
11. Oxilia G., Peresani M., et al., 2015. Earliest evidence of dental caries manipulation in the Late Upper Paleolithic. Nature Scientific Reports 5, 12150. (12,237 article views in 2015, placing it as one of the top 100 read Scientific Reports articles in 2015).
12. Falcucci A., Conard N.J., Peresani M., 2020. Breaking through the Aquitaine frame: a re-evaluation on the significance of regional variants during the Early Upper Paleolithic as seen from a key record in southern Europe. Journal of Anthropological Sciences, 98, 99-140.
13. Duches R., Nannini N, Romandini M., Boschin F., Crezzini J., Peresani M., 2016. Identification of Late Epigravettian hunting injuries: descriptive and 3D analysis of experimental projectile impact marks on bone. Journal of Archaeological Science, 66, 88-102.
14. Delpiano D., Zupancich A., Peresani M., 2019. Innovative Neanderthals: Results from an integrated analytical approach applied to backed stone tools. Journal of Archaeological science, 110, 105011.
15. Ruan Q.J., Li H., Xiao P.Y., Li B., Monod H., ….., Peresani M., et al., 2025. Quina technology from Southwest China indicates diverse late-Pleistocene human dynamics in East Asia. Proceedings National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 122, 14, e2418029122.
16. Badino F., Ruka R., Pini R., Frechen M., Argante V., ….., Peresani M., 2025. Palaeoenvironmental, stratigraphic and geochronological study of the coastal site of Dalani i Vog¨el (Vlora, Albania): new evidence for late Neanderthal occupation and prehistoric archaeology. Quaternary Science Reviews, 349, 109111.
17. Delpiano D., Marciani G., Conforti J., Lombardo S., Rossini M., ….., Peresani M., et al., 2024. Not just a technique! An experimental approach to refine the definition of the bipolar anvil reduction in the Uluzzian. Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences, 16, 202.
18. Delpiano D., Gravina B., Peresani M., 2024. Back(s) to basics: the concept of backing in stone tool technologies for tracing hominins’ technical innovations. Evolutionary Anthropology, 33, e22045.
19. Badino F., Pini R., Ravazzi C., Chytrý M., Bertuletti P., …., Peresani M., et al., 2023. High-resolution ecosystem changes pacing the millennial climate variability at the Middle to Upper Palaeolithic transition in NE-Italy. Nature Scientific Reports, 13, 12478.
20. Marín-Arroyo A.B., Terlato G., Vidal-Cordasco M., Peresani M., 2023, Subsistence of the early modern humans in Europe as evidence in the Protoaurignacian occupations of Fumane Cave, Italy. Nature Scientific Reports, 13, 3788. (in the Top 100 Earth, Environment and Ecology papers published in Scientific Reports 2023)
21. Kehl M., Marcazzan D., Miller C.E., Falcucci A., Duches R., Peresani M., 2025. The upper sedimentary sequence of Grotta di Fumane, Northern Italy : A micromorphological approach to study imprints of human occupation and paleoclimate change. Geoarchaeology, 40, e70000.
22. Peresani M., 2022, Inspecting human evolution from a cave. Late Neanderthals and early sapiens at Grotta di Fumane: present state and outlook. Journal of Anthropological Sciences, 100, 71-107.
23. Delpiano D., Zupancich A., Bertola S., Martellotta E.F., Livraghi A., Cristiani E., Peresani M., 2022, Flexibility within Quina lithic production systems and tool-use in Northern Italy: implications on Neanderthal behavior and ecology during early MIS 4. Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences, 14, 219.
24. Fellows Yates J.A., Velsko I.M., Aron F., Posth C., Hofman C.A., ….. Peresani M., et al., 2021. The evolution and changing ecology of the African hominid oral microbiome. Proceedings National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 118/20, e2021655118
25. Peresani M., Monegato G., Ravazzi C., Bertola S., Margaritora D., et al., 2021. Hunter-gatherers across the Great Adriatic-Po Region during the Last Glacial Maximum: environmental and cultural dynamics. Quaternary International, special issue LGM in Europe, 581-582, 128-163.
Family name, First name: Peresani, Marco
Researcher unique identifier: ORCID=0000-0001-6562-6336
Date of birth: 02/11/1963
Nationality: Italian
URL for web site: http://docente.unife.it/marco.peresani
Contact Information
University of Ferrara
Dipartimento di Studi Umanistici
Corso Ercole I d’Este, 32
I-44100 Ferrara, Italy
Tel: +39-532-293724
Fax: +39-532-206581
E-mail: marco.peresani@unife.it
URL for web site: http://docente.unife.it/marco.peresani
https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Marco-Peresani
https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marco_Peresani
Present Appointment
2022 Full Professor at the University of Ferrara, Department of Humanities
2014-2022 Associate Professor at the University of Ferrara, Department of Humanities
1993-2014 - Researcher at the University of Ferrara, Department of Humanities
Education 1989- 1992: Society of the Universities of Bologna, Ferrara and Parma
Ph.D: Anthropological Science
• Topic. The prehistoric peopling of Europe. Adaptations to dry and cold environments on the southern alpine slope.
1982- 1988: Dipartimento di Scienze Geologiche, University of Ferrara
BA/MA: Geological Science
• Topic. The Pleistocene sequence of Grotta di San Bernardino. Sedimentological and paleopedological study of sediments and techno-typological analysis of the lithic industries.
Presentation
Marco Peresani is Full Professor at the Department of Humanities, Unit of Prehistory and Anthropology Sciences, the University of Ferrara. Since 1993 he designs and coordinates research projects focused on the human populations in Mediterranean Europe, particularly the north of Italy, the Alps and the Adriatic Basin. Specifically, his investigations focus on Neanderthal cultures and behavior, Neanderthal – Homo sapiens bio-cultural substitution, Last Glacial Maximum and the colonization of mountain ranges during the Late Glacial and Early Holocene. As a geoarcheologist, he also contributes to reconstructing depositional and post-depositional processes at cave and open-air sites. Using lithic technology as primary research tool, he reconstructs hunter-gatherers’ settlement dynamics and reveals the existence of behavioural variability across the Middle Palaeolithic, the transition to the Upper Palaeolithic, the Gravettian and the Epigravettian until the Early mesolithic. He conducts fieldwork at many sites in the Italian Alps and the Apennines, among which primarily Grotta di Fumane with its remarkable cultural sequence. He conducts archaeological missions in Albania and collaborates with research teams in China, Romania, France, Spain, Germany and other countries. His publication list includes edited books and over 400 papers published as articles in peer-review journals, chapters in volumes and conference proceedings.
Major on-going projects
• PI of I Cammini della Preistoria and Ecomuseo projects on the Palaeolithic in Central Italy granted by Ufficio Superiore Ricostruzione Comuni Cratere Sismico.
• Co-PI with Elisa Nicoud (CEPAM, France) of projects on the Middle Palaeolithic in Central Italy granted by Ècole Française de Rome.
• Collaborative member of projects headed by Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, the Chinese Academy of Science, on the Middle Palaeolithic in China.
• Collaborative member of ERC starting and consolidator projects on the Middle and Early Upper Palaeolithic in Europe.
• Research at Grotta di Fumane: the Middle– Upper Paleolithic transition in Northern Italy. Fieldwork and investigations on Neandertal – Modern Humans interaction.
• Research on the final Middle Paleolithic in Northeast Italy. Investigations on sites and cultural materials in northern and central Italy.
• The Palaeolithic of Southern Albania. Survey on the Middle and Late Palaeolithic.
• The Late-glacial human colonization of the eastern Italian Alps and Appenine. Fieldwork and research in Veneto, Trentino, Friuli, Emilia Romagna, and Marche.
Archaeological surveys and excavations
• Grotta di Fumane: cave, Middle Palaeolithic and Early Upper Palaeolithic, Venetian Pre-Alps: from 1993 to 2005 as Co-director; from 2006 to present as Director
• Grotta del Rio Secco: cave, Middle Palaeolithic, Carnic Pre-Alps: 2010-present
• Grotta De Nadale: cave, Middle Palaeolithic, Berici Hills, Veneto: 2014-present
• Piovesello: open site, Mid-Late Palaeolithic, Northern Appennine, 2013-present
• Grotta del Clusantin: cave, Late Upper Palaeolithic, Carnic Pre-Alps: 2002-2005
• Cansiglio Plateau: open air sites, Late Upper Paleolithic and Mesolithic, Venetian Pre-Alps: 1993-2002; 2017-present
• Val Lastari: open air site, Late Upper Paleolithic, Asiago Plateau, Venetian Pre-Alps: 1990-1996
Current and Past Teaching Appointments at the University of Ferrara Masters-level teaching:
• Course Director and Tutor, Department of Humanities, University of Ferrara; “Chronology and Cultures of the Palaeolithic”: 2007- present
• Course Director and Tutor, Department of Environmental Science and Prevention, University of Ferrara; “Pedology and post-depositional disturbance”: 2023- present
Undergraduate-level teaching:
• Course Director and Tutor, Department of Evolutionary Biology, University of Ferrara; “Prehistoric Ecology”: 1997- 2011
• Course Director and Tutor, Department of Evolutionary Biology, University of Ferrara; “Quaternary Geology”: 1999- 2011
• Course Director and Tutor, Department of Evolutionary Biology, University of Ferrara; “Pedoarchaeology”: 2004- 2011
Other Teaching Appointments
• Visiting Lecturer, University Tubingen, 2018
• Visiting Lecturer, University Montreal, 2017
• Visiting Lecturer, Universitat Rovira I Virgili, 2010
• Field-lessons “Experimental Archaeozoology”: 2006
• Lecturer, University of Trento, 2004
• Visiting Lecturer, Universitè Aix-en-Provence, 2000 and 2004
• Visiting Lecturer, Université de Paris I, 2002
Supervisory Appointments at Ferrara and Other Universities
Ph.D. Supervisor
Scientific Advisory Board for PhD in Biologia Evoluzionistica e Ambientale; Scienze e Tecnologie per l'Archeologia e i Beni Culturali; Human Sciences. Università di Ferrara: 2005-present.
• Quaternary, Prehistory and Anthropology: 10 students graduated since 2011
• Anthropological Sciences: 1 student graduated in 2005
Masters Tutor
• Course on Prehistoric Sciences and on Quaternary, Prehistory and Archaeology, Ferrara: over 60 students graduated since 2005
Undergraduate Tutor
• Courses on Technologies for Cultural Heritage, on Natural Sciences, on Earth Sciences, Ferrara : over 27 student graduated since 1996
• Courses on Earth Sciences, Archaeology, Cultural Heritage: Milano, Padova, Bologna, Venezia : 25 students graduated since 1993
Referee for Post-Doctoral Contracts, University of Ferrara Subjects: Grotta di Fumane, Grotta De Nadale, Grotta del Rio Secco, Riparo del Broion, Grotta del Col de la Stria, Piovesello, Grotta del Clusantin and other Epigravettian sites. Archaeozoology of the Mousterian levels; analysis of animal hard material used to produce tools, ornamental objects or for consumption of the Aurignacian; lithic production and use living space by H. Neanderthalensis. Study of the Mousterian lithic industry of Fumane; functional analysis of Uluzzian and final Mousterian industries; analysis of palaeoliving floors; technology and function: use of traceological analysis for reconstructing Epigravettian subsistence strategies in Northern Italy.
Referee for Post-Graduate Fellowships, University of Ferrara Subjects: Grotta di Fumane, Grotta De Nadale, Grotta del Rio Secco, Riparo del Broion, Grotta del Col de la Stria, Piovesello, Grotta del Clusantin other Epigravettian sites. Study of spatial distribution of artefacts and ecofacts at Fumane; technological and typological analysis of Mousterian lithic implements; functional analysis of the epigravettian lithic industry; geoarchaeological studies, survey, documentation and interpretation of field data.
Member Advisory Board of Research centers and companies
• Advisory Board of Genomic Archaeology Research center Tubingen: 2024-present
• Scientific Committee of ArchaeoVea, Parma: 2025
Memberships of scientific societie
• Steering Council of Italian Quaternary Association (AIQUA): 2006-2009; 2015-present
• Collaborator of the Istituto Italiano di Preistoria e Protostoria (IIPP): since 1994
• Italian Association of Anthropologists (AAI): since 1992
• VIII Commission of International Union of Prehistoric and Protohistoric Sciences (UISPP): since 2006
• XXVII Commission of International Union of Prehistoric and Protohistoric Sciences (UISPP): since 2006
• Ordinary Academic of the Olimpic Academy, Vicenza: since 2014
• Research Network “ESHE - European Society for the study of Human Evolution” (2011-present).
Memberships of Peer Reviewed Journal Boards
• Academic Editor, PLoS ONE, since 2016
• Associate Editor, Alpine and Mediterranean Quaternary, 2020-2025
• Guest Editor, Quaternary International, 2016 and 2021
• Member of the Scientific Committee of Gallia Préhistoire, Paléo, Bullettin de la Societè Prèhistorique Française, P@lethnologie, Gortania, Archeologia Veneta, Bullettino di Paletnologia Italiana, Il Quaternario.
• Reviewer for Current Anthropology, Journal of Archaeological Science, Journal of Human Evolution, PLoS ONE, Quaternary International, Paléo, Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory, Bullettin Societè Prèhistorique Française, Science, Bullettino Paletnologia Italiana, Royal Society Open Science.
• Elsevier Oustanding Reviewer in 2015
Memberships of Museum Scientific Committees
• National Archeological Museum Verona: 2020
• Musem of Villabruna Palaeolithic burial: 2024
• Eco-Anthropological Museum Cansiglio (BL): 2002
• Archeological Museum Torre (PN): 2003
• Livelet Archeological Parc, Revine Lago (TV): since 2005
Organization of Scientific Sessions and Meetings
• Understanding Neanderthal symbolic and cultural behaviour and their cognitive underpinnings. Where do we stand? Theme 6, A Decade after the ‘Third Science Revolution in Archaeology’, 28th EAA Annual Meeting Budapest, Hungary, with D. Leder e A. Majkić, Session n. 85, 1 september 2022
• Le scienze della Preistoria e Protostoria: Paleoecologia, Archeobiologia, Applicazioni digitali e Archeometria. LVI Riunione Scientifica, Istituto Italiano di Preistoria e Protostoria, Ferrara, with Marta Arzarello, Federica Fontana, Ursula Thun Hohenstein, 20-23 october.
• Rediscovering the Uluzzian. A Leakey Foundation Project. Workshop, Ferrara, Dipartimento di Studi Umanistici, november 2016.
• Ricostruire l’evoluzione dell’interazione uomo-ambiente. Applicazioni e prospettive, Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra. Workshop AIQUA Firenze, february 2016.
• Humankind and the avian world: archaeological and zooarchaeological evidence for inferring behavioural evolutionary signatures. XVII Congresso UISPP, Burgos, september 2014, in collaboration with R.Blasco.
• Les sociétés de l’Allerød et du Dryas récent entre Atlantique et Méditerranée. Société Préhistorique Française. Universitè Bordeaux, May 2012, in collaboration with M. Langlais and N. Naudinot.
• Flakes Not Blades - Discussing the role of flake making at the onset of the Upper Palaeolithic, Workshop, Neanderthal Museum, March 2011, in collaboration with A. Pastoors and G.C. Weniger.
• Neanderthals and Anatomically Modern Humans in Italy. Palaeogeography, ecology and culture in the isotopic stage 3, XVIII Congress of the Anthropology Italian Association. A session organised by A.A.I. and Italian Quaternary Association (AIQUA), October 2009, Florence, in collaboration with C. Ravazzi
Attendance of meetings and workshops
• Over 350 national and international scientific meetings and workshops have been attended and over 250 podium presentations and posters have been contributed.
Administrative Experience in Educational Institutions
• Ph.D. Academic Committee in Anthropological Science. Society of the Universities of Bologna, Ferrara and Parma: 1993-2006
• Ph.D. Academic Committee in ‘Scienze e Tecnologie per l'Archeologia e i Beni Culturali’. Society of the Universities of Ferrara, Modena and Siena: 2006- present
• Academic Committee for Post-Doctoral Contracts – member. University of Ferrara: 2007- present
• Director of Experimental Archaeozoological Stages. University of Ferrara: 2006-2008
• Director of the Summer Schools: 1) Didactics in Palaeolithic Archaeology; 2) Prehistoric Lithic technology; 3) Human – bird interaction in the past and today. University of Ferrara: 2015, 2023
Major Collaborations
Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Germany; ORAU, University of Oxford and Mac Donald Institute, University of Cambrige, UK; Universität Tübingen, Urgeschichte und Naturwissenschaftliche Archäologie; IPHES, University of Tarragona, Spain; Geoscience, Southern Cross University, Australia; Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, Germany; Université de Liége, Service de Préhistoire, Belgium; Institut de Paléontologie Humaine, Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle; University of Nice Sophia Antipolis, CNRS UMR 7264 CEPAM, Nice, France; University of Adelaide, Adelaide, Australia; Leiden University, Faculty of Archaeology, Leiden, Netherlands; Institute of Anthropology, Zagabria, Croazia; Academy of Sciences, Department of Archaeology, Tirana, Albania; Simon Fraser University, Department of Archaeology, British Columbia, Canada; University of Applied Sciences and Arts - SUPSI, Institute of Materials and Constructions, Canobbio, Svizzera; Dipartimento di Scienze dell’Antichità, Università degli Studi di Roma “La Sapienza”, Italy; Dipartimento Scienze della Terra, Università Milano I; Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche; Neanderthal Museum.
National and international grants achieved as Principal Investigator • Le Paléolithique ancien et moyen d’Italie centrale: territoires et évolutions techniques. In co-direzione con Elisa Nicoud (CNRS). École Française de Rome: ongoing since 2016
• Rediscovering the Uluzzian in Italy. (2015/2016 general grant) Partners: Università Bologna e Università Siena. Leakey Foundation, USA. 05-05-2015 - 31-01-2017
• L’Ultimo Neandertal in Friuli. Tra Ricerca, Tutela e Valorizzazione, un Laboratorio Archeologico permanente: Grotta del Rio Secco, Altopiano di Pradis. Regione Friuli Venezia – Giulia, Centro Regionale di Catalogazione e Restauro: 2013-2014
• Neanderthal and the oldest evidence of body adornment with feathers. Excavation at Grotta di Fumane, Italy. National Geographic Society, Committee for Research and Exploration, 9022-11: 2011-2013
• Pratiche venatorie e dinamiche comportamentali degli ultimi cacciatori paleolitici del Trentino. Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio Trento e Rovereto: 2009-2011
• Il sito di Riva del Garda – via Brione (Trento). Approccio tecnologico e tipologico all’industria litica di un abitato del secondo stile della Cultura dei Vasi a Bocca Quadrata. Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio Trento e Rovereto: 2008-2009
• La Grotta di Fumane, gli ultimi Neandertaliani e i primi sapiens nei Monti Lessini. Progetto di ricerca archeologica. Fondazione CARI Verona & Regione del Veneto –Dipartimento Cultura: 2001÷2010
• Grants sourced from Università di Ferrara – Fondo Ricerca Ateneo
• 2006÷2007 - Ambiente, popolamento e strategie di sussistenza nel Pleistocene dell’area alto-medio adriatica. Casi di studio.
• 2008÷2011 - Biogeografia, cronologia e comportamento degli ultimi neandertaliani. Elementi di confronto.
• 2012÷2014 - Biogeografia, culture, economie del popolamento pleistocenico in Italia. Elementi di valutazione.
• Since 2016 – Fondo Ateneo Ricerca UniFe.
Publications
• Handbooks, edited books, book chapters, articles and commentaries in English, Italian and French have been published as articles in peer-reviewed journals like Nature, Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Science, Journal of Human Evolution, Journal of Archaeological Anthropology, Journal of Archaeological Science, Quaternary Science Reviews, PlosOne, Journal of Quaternary International, and others and chapters in volumes and conference proceedings. Other publications are presentations of scientific volumes and over 140 abstracts and extended abstracts
Bibliometrics
• 394 (handbooks, edited books, book chapters, peer reviewed papers, non-peer reviewed papers)
• Number of total Scopus indexed papers: 163 (Scopus)
• Number of total Scopus Citations: 5838
• Scopus h‐index: 38 (Scopus, updated to 23.11.2025)
Outreach and Scientific collaboration to the arrangement of museum sections and exhibitions
• Collaborative consultance to museums, didactics on archaeology and anthropology projects, publication of over 50 guides of scientific excursions, large public books, notes and touristic panels, presentations of scientific volumes; 140 abstracts and extended abstracts; 4 books and 15 articles for public audiences; 12 panels; 7 museum guides; and several archaeological itineraries and maps.
• Collaboration to Cultural Heritage initiatives: Raccontare per immagini. Verona - Museo Archeologico Nazionale: 2017-2018.
• Scientific collaboration to museum sections projects: Sezione di Paleoantropologia, Museo di Storia Naturale di Milano, 2023; Sezione Preistorica del Museo Civico Archeologico “A.G. Silverj, 2021; Museo Preistorico-paleontologico di Sant’Anna D’Alfaedo (VR), 1996, 2001; Museo della Grotta, Pradis-Clauzetto, 2001, 2007; Museo Archeologico di Torre, Pordenone, 2006; Museo Archeologico di Treviso, Anno 2007; Museo dell’Uomo e del Cansiglio, 2011.
• Scientific collaboration to temporary exhibitions projects: “Sapiens. Da cacciatore a cyborg”, Museo di Storia Naturale e Archeologia, Montebelluna; “Homo sapiens”, Roma, Novara, Milano; "Cambio de Imagen. Una nueva visión de Los Neandertales”, Museo de la Evolución Humana; "VR60768. Anthropomorphic figure”, Italian Art Promotion, Camera dei Deputati, Roma; “Antiche città e paesaggi di Albania”, Tirana; "preHISTORIA CONTEMPORANEA”, Università di Ferrara; “Estinzioni”, MUSE.
• Collaboration to documentaries, television programs, reviews, podcasts.
LIST OF MOST RELEVANT PUBLICATIONS
Selection of edited books and 25 most relevant publications
Edited Books
Peretto C., Sala B., Arzarello M., Fontana F., Lembo G., Peresani M., Thun-Hohenstein U. (a cura di), 2020, Le ricerche preistoriche dell’Università di Ferrara. Dipartimento di Studi Umanistici, Mimesis/UniFeStUm, Vol. 9 (2022), pp. 295.
Langlais M., Naudinot N., Peresani M. (eds.), 2014, Les groupes culturels de la transition Pléistocène-Holocène entre Atlantique et Adriatique. Actes de la séance de la Société préhistorique française, Bordeaux 24-25 may 2015, Séances de la Société préhistorique française Paris, 3, pp. 205-220, ISBN 2-913745-56-3.
Pastoors A., Peresani M. (Eds.), 2012 Flakes Not Blades - Discussing the role of flake making at the onset of the Upper Palaeolithic, Proceedings of the Workshop, Wissenschaftliche Schriften des Neanderthal Museums, 5.
Peresani M. (Ed.), 2003, Discoid Lithic Technology. Advances and Implications. British Archaeological Reports, International Series, 1120, Oxford.
Journal articles
1. Peresani M., Fiore I., Gala M., Romandini M., Tagliacozzo A., 2011. Late Neandertals and the intentional removal of feathers as evidenced from bird bone taphonomy at Fumane cave 44ky BP, Italy. Proceedings National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 108, 3888-3893.
2. Higham T., Douka K., Wood R., Bronk Ramsey C., Brock F., ……….. Peresani M., et al., 2014. The timing and spatio-temporal patterning of Neanderthal disappearance. Nature, 512, 306-309.
3. Fu Q., Posth C., Hajdinjak M., Petr M., Mallick S., … Peresani M., et al., 2016. The genetic history of Ice Age Europe. Nature, 534, 200-205.
4. Benazzi S., Slon V., Talamo S., Negrino F., Peresani M., et al., 2015. The makers of the Protoaurignacian and implications for Neandertal extinction. Science, 348 (6236), 793-796.
5. Peresani M., Vanhaeren M., Quaggiotto E., Queffelec A., d’Errico F., 2013. An ochered fossil marine shell from the Mousterian of Fumane Cave, Italy. PLosOne, 8(7), e68572.
6. Peresani M., Cristiani E., Romandini M., 2016. The Uluzzian technology of Grotta di Fumane and its implication for reconstructing cultural dynamics in the Middle – Upper Palaeolithic transition of Western Eurasia. Journal of Human Evolution 91, 36-56.
7. Naudinot N.A., Tomasso A., Tozzi C., Peresani M., 2014. Changes in mobility patterns as a factor of 14C date density variation in the Late Epigravettian of Northern Italy and Southeastern France. Journal of Archaeological Science, 52, 578-590.
8. Romandini M., Terlato G., Nannini N., Tagliacozzo A., Benazzi S., Peresani M., 2018. Bears and Humans, a Neanderthal tale. Reconstructing uncommon behaviors from zooarchaeological evidence in Southern Europe. Journal of Archaeological Science, 90, 71-91.
9. Terlato G., Bocherens H., Romandini M., Nannini N., Hobson K.A., Peresani M., 2019. Chronological and Isotopic data support a revision for the timing of cave bear extinction in Mediterranean Europe. In : Figueirido B., Van Heteren A.H. (Eds.), Recent advances on the palaeoecology, evolution and extinction of the Cave Bear (Ursus spelaeus). Historical Biology, 31/4, 474-484.
10. Peresani M., Bertola S., Delpiano D., Benazzi S., Romandini M., 2019. The Uluzzian in the north of Italy. Insights around the new evidence at Riparo Broion Rockshelter. Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences, 11(7), 3503-3536.
11. Oxilia G., Peresani M., et al., 2015. Earliest evidence of dental caries manipulation in the Late Upper Paleolithic. Nature Scientific Reports 5, 12150. (12,237 article views in 2015, placing it as one of the top 100 read Scientific Reports articles in 2015).
12. Falcucci A., Conard N.J., Peresani M., 2020. Breaking through the Aquitaine frame: a re-evaluation on the significance of regional variants during the Early Upper Paleolithic as seen from a key record in southern Europe. Journal of Anthropological Sciences, 98, 99-140.
13. Duches R., Nannini N, Romandini M., Boschin F., Crezzini J., Peresani M., 2016. Identification of Late Epigravettian hunting injuries: descriptive and 3D analysis of experimental projectile impact marks on bone. Journal of Archaeological Science, 66, 88-102.
14. Delpiano D., Zupancich A., Peresani M., 2019. Innovative Neanderthals: Results from an integrated analytical approach applied to backed stone tools. Journal of Archaeological science, 110, 105011.
15. Ruan Q.J., Li H., Xiao P.Y., Li B., Monod H., ….., Peresani M., et al., 2025. Quina technology from Southwest China indicates diverse late-Pleistocene human dynamics in East Asia. Proceedings National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 122, 14, e2418029122.
16. Badino F., Ruka R., Pini R., Frechen M., Argante V., ….., Peresani M., 2025. Palaeoenvironmental, stratigraphic and geochronological study of the coastal site of Dalani i Vog¨el (Vlora, Albania): new evidence for late Neanderthal occupation and prehistoric archaeology. Quaternary Science Reviews, 349, 109111.
17. Delpiano D., Marciani G., Conforti J., Lombardo S., Rossini M., ….., Peresani M., et al., 2024. Not just a technique! An experimental approach to refine the definition of the bipolar anvil reduction in the Uluzzian. Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences, 16, 202.
18. Delpiano D., Gravina B., Peresani M., 2024. Back(s) to basics: the concept of backing in stone tool technologies for tracing hominins’ technical innovations. Evolutionary Anthropology, 33, e22045.
19. Badino F., Pini R., Ravazzi C., Chytrý M., Bertuletti P., …., Peresani M., et al., 2023. High-resolution ecosystem changes pacing the millennial climate variability at the Middle to Upper Palaeolithic transition in NE-Italy. Nature Scientific Reports, 13, 12478.
20. Marín-Arroyo A.B., Terlato G., Vidal-Cordasco M., Peresani M., 2023, Subsistence of the early modern humans in Europe as evidence in the Protoaurignacian occupations of Fumane Cave, Italy. Nature Scientific Reports, 13, 3788. (in the Top 100 Earth, Environment and Ecology papers published in Scientific Reports 2023)
21. Kehl M., Marcazzan D., Miller C.E., Falcucci A., Duches R., Peresani M., 2025. The upper sedimentary sequence of Grotta di Fumane, Northern Italy : A micromorphological approach to study imprints of human occupation and paleoclimate change. Geoarchaeology, 40, e70000.
22. Peresani M., 2022, Inspecting human evolution from a cave. Late Neanderthals and early sapiens at Grotta di Fumane: present state and outlook. Journal of Anthropological Sciences, 100, 71-107.
23. Delpiano D., Zupancich A., Bertola S., Martellotta E.F., Livraghi A., Cristiani E., Peresani M., 2022, Flexibility within Quina lithic production systems and tool-use in Northern Italy: implications on Neanderthal behavior and ecology during early MIS 4. Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences, 14, 219.
24. Fellows Yates J.A., Velsko I.M., Aron F., Posth C., Hofman C.A., ….. Peresani M., et al., 2021. The evolution and changing ecology of the African hominid oral microbiome. Proceedings National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 118/20, e2021655118
25. Peresani M., Monegato G., Ravazzi C., Bertola S., Margaritora D., et al., 2021. Hunter-gatherers across the Great Adriatic-Po Region during the Last Glacial Maximum: environmental and cultural dynamics. Quaternary International, special issue LGM in Europe, 581-582, 128-163.
