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From: Climate-driven environmental changes around 8,200 years ago favoured increases in cetacean strandings and Mediterranean hunter-gatherers exploited them

Figure 2

Stratigraphy of Grotta dell’Uzzo with information on the archaeological and isotopic record.

Cetacean bones amount to ~2.5% of the vertebrate remains in the Mesolithic-Neolithic transition, constituting the largest assemblage of this antiquity. The pigs represented by the wild boar symbol in ‘Neolithic Phase I’ belong both to the wild and domestic forms. The silhouettes of the main vertebrate faunal taxa were drawn by Marcello A. Mannino.

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