Palaeopathological Study of the Mompaderno Cranium (Croatian Istria) Reveals Interpersonal Violence during Early Bronze Age

The Mompaderno cranium was found in 1883 at Baderna/Mompaderno in Croatian Istria. It was suspected to date from the Mesolithic or Neolithic period, but radiocarbon analyses, performed by accelerator mass spectrometry (AMS) on collagen extracted from two teeth, have provided an age range of 2,202–1928 cal. BC, which corresponds to the Early Bronze Age in the investigated region. Macroscopic observations and X-ray micro-tomography (micro-CT) of the cranium have shown antemortem sharp force trauma on the frontal bones, probably caused by a bronze axe, and a related osteomyelitis likely caused by an infection of the wound. The study has also revealed a previous depressed fracture and an osteolytic area interpreted as intradiploic meningioma. Results provide rare and earliest evidence of interpersonal violence in the northern Adriatic region

FIELD TRIP GUIDE Karst, Aquileia, Reserve of Cona Island, Marine Reserve of Miramare

Field Trip Guide of 17\ub0 Internaztional Symposium on Ostracod

Museo Civico di Storia Naturale: il contributo di L. K. Moser

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Archaeopteryx, animali alla conquista dell\u2019aria

Catalogo della mostra "Archaeopteryx, animali alla conquista dell\u2019aria

The Mesozoic palaeoenvironmental richness of the Trieste Karst

The Mesozoic of the Trieste Karst is part of the 90th Congress of the Italian Geological Society, Trieste Italy, 2021. The guide aims at documenting selected outcrops located on the Karst plateau where fossil richness is related to particular carbonate platform facies associations to highlight the area as an important archive for marine and continental palaeodiversity. The Trieste Natural History Museum holds the most important collection of Late Cretaceous fossils, including exceptionally preserved dinosaurs (Tethyshadros insularis), reptiles, land plants, crustaceans, and fishes of the Villaggio del Pescatore geosite. At the Villaggio del Pescatore geosite fossil-rich carbonate rhythmites are spectacularly exposed on quarried surfaces. At Cava Romana it is possible to observe the Upper Cretaceous rudist-rich platform facies of the "Aurisina limestone". The Slivia quarry exposes a Cretaceous palaeokarst deposit made of large limestone blocks. The Cenomanian peritidal carbonate succession of the Moschenizza hill shows m-thick rudist limestone beds, and cm-thick dark-coloured, muddy wackestones sporadically rich in fossil land plants like Frenelopsis

The Mesozoic palaeoenvironmental richness of the Trieste Karst

none8noThe Mesozoic of the Trieste Karst is part of the 90th Congress of the Italian Geological Society, Trieste Italy, 2021. The guide aims at documenting selected outcrops located on the Karst plateau where fossil richness is related to particular carbonate platform facies associations to highlight the area as an important archive for marine and continental palaeodiversity. The Trieste Natural History Museum holds the most important collection of Late Cretaceous fossils, including exceptionally preserved dinosaurs (Tethyshadros insularis), reptiles, land plants, crustaceans, and fishes of the Villaggio del Pescatore geosite. At the Villaggio del Pescatore geosite fossil-rich carbonate rhythmites are spectacularly exposed on quarried surfaces. At Cava Romana it is possible to observe the Upper Cretaceous rudist-rich platform facies of the "Aurisina limestone". The Slivia quarry exposes a Cretaceous palaeokarst deposit made of large limestone blocks. The Cenomanian peritidal carbonate succession of the Moschenizza hill shows m-Thick rudist limestone beds, and cm-Thick dark-coloured, muddy wackestones sporadically rich in fossil land plants like Frenelopsis.noneConsorti L.; Arbulla D.; Bonini L.; Fabbi S.; Fanti F.; Franceschi M.; Frijia G.; Pini G.A.Consorti L.; Arbulla D.; Bonini L.; Fabbi S.; Fanti F.; Franceschi M.; Frijia G.; Pini G.A

Italian brackish and marine ostracod fauna

In this contribution, we present an updated database of the ostracod species pertaining to the infralittoral and circalittoral zones, together with those occurring in lagoon, intertidal, submarine cave and deep water settings. Furthermore, we intend to highlight the links between the ostracod assemblages recorded all along the coasts of the Italian peninsula, Sicily and Sardinia, and some environmental parameters. The main issue is the heterogeneous geographic distribution of the data; we have used the most updated literature, including unpublished data collections as well as reports about ostracod occurrence in natural parks, reserves or SCI (Sites of Community Importance). Such research intends to realize a synthesis of these data, which could be used as an integrative support, focused on the Mediterranean Sea, to the already existing available databases of the European Marine Biodiversity Research Site and the Global Biodiversity Information Facility. The aim of this work is to propose a straightforward database containing taxonomic, including possible synonymies, ecological and geographical information. We also think that this database might be a starting point for the achievement of a more complete database covering the whole Mediterranean area