Journal article
Stable isotope composition of Late Pleistocene-Holocene Eobania vermiculata (Müller, 1774) (Pulmonata, Stylommatophora) shells from the Central Mediterranean basin: Data from Grotta d'Oriente (Favignana, Sicily)
AC Colonese, G Zanchetta, RN Drysdale, AE Fallick, G Manganelli, D Lo Vetro, F Martini, Z Di Giuseppe
Quaternary International | Published : 2011
Abstract
This paper presents stable isotopic results (oxygen and carbon) from both modern and Late Pleistocene-Holocene shells of the land snail Eobania vermiculata (Müller, 1774) from Favignana Island (Sicily). It aims to contribute to the understanding of climate and vegetation history of this region during formation of Upper Palaeolithic, Mesolithic and Meso-Neolithic deposits of Grotta d'Oriente (ORT). Results from both an evaporative model (FBM) and an empirical regional isotopic model (i.e. linear relation between oxygen isotopic composition of shells (δ18Os) and those of local precipitation (δ18Op)) indicate that the δ18Os values of modern specimens are mainly controlled by local temperature, ..
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Funding Acknowledgements
This paper was partially supported by Spanish MICINN Research Project: HAR2009-13494-C02-02, 2010-2012; project POR Sicilia 2000-2006 (Asse II, Misura 2.0.1.) and Museo e Istituto Fiorentino di Preistoria "P. Graziosi" (Firenze, Italy). Authors are particularly grateful to David Lubell (University of Waterloo) and Nick Barton (University of Oxford). The authors are indebted to Andrew Tait, Julie Dougans, Terry Donnelly (SUERC) and Tanya Smith (University of Newcastle) for the analytical support for the stable isotope measurements. We thank the Staff of Laboratori d'Arqueozoologia (Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona (UAB)), Patrizia Ziveri and Gianluca Marino (Institute of Environmental Science and Technology (ICTA) and UAB), Silvia Frisia and Siro Moggio (University of Newcastle), Laura Sadori (Universita "La Sapienza" de Roma), Daniel la Bar-Yosef (University of Haifa), Arkady Savinetsky (Russian Academy of Sciences), Marcello Mannino (Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology), Elisa Locatelli (Universita di Ferrara), Alessandro Incarbona (Universita di Palermo), Kimberlee Sparks (Cornell Stable Isotope Laboratory), Suzan Warmerdam (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam), Angel Alvarez Larena and Javier Martinez (Servei de Difraccio de Raigs X, UAB). The comments and suggestions of C. Yapp and one anonymous reviewer significantly improved the quality of the manuscript.