摘要

The Tyrrhenian region of central Italy (Latium) is well known to palaeontologists for being an important source of human fossils, such as those recovered at Saccopastore (Rome) and Grotta Guattari (Monte Circeo). These specimens, and the more fragmentary ones obtained from various sites dotted over the region, constitute an Anteneandertal and Neandertal sample that calls for reappraisal today. The evolutionary correspondence among the Latium sample and the more general trend observed in Europe before the appearance of anatomically modern Homo sapiens makes it possible, inter alia, to document the existence of a continuous gene flow between the continental and Mediterranean areas of Europe through the Middle and Upper Pleistocene.

  • 出版日期1991