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Raffaele Sardella is affiliated with Sapienza University of Rome in Italy. Their research spans multiple fields and subfields within Earth and Planetary Sciences and Social Sciences, with a strong emphasis on Paleontology and Anthropology.

The main fields of study covered by Sardella include:

  • Earth and Planetary Sciences
  • Social Sciences

Within these broad fields, their subfields of study are primarily:

  • Paleontology
  • Anthropology
  • Ecology
  • Atmospheric Science
  • Archeology

The key research topics explored in their work comprise:

  • Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology
  • Evolution and Paleontology Studies
  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
  • Archaeology and ancient environmental studies
  • Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
  • Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Studies
  • Primate Behavior and Ecology

Selected recent publications include:

  • The origin of early Acheulean expansion in Europe 700 ka ago: new findings at Notarchirico (Italy), 2020, Scientific Reports
  • The extinction of the giant hyena Pachycrocuta brevirostris and a reappraisal of the Epivillafranchian and Galerian Hyaenidae in Europe: Faunal turnover during the Early-Middle Pleistocene Transition, 2021, Quaternary Science Reviews
  • Size shifts in late Middle Pleistocene to Early Holocene Sus scrofa (Suidae, Mammalia) from Apulia (southern Italy): ecomorphological adaptations?, 2020, IRIS Research product catalog (Sapienza University of Rome)
  • The tale of a short-tailed cat: New outstanding Late Pleistocene fossils of Lynx pardinus from southern Italy, 2021, Quaternary Science Reviews
  • Old African fossils provide new evidence for the origin of the American crocodiles, 2020, Scientific Reports

Frequent co-authors in Sardella's work include:

  • Beniamino Mecozzi
  • Alessio Iannucci
  • Dawid A. Iurino
  • Ilaria Mazzini
  • Pierluigi Pieruccini

Sardella has published extensively in several scientific venues. The most frequent publication outlets are:

  • Quaternary Science Reviews
  • Historical Biology
  • Scientific Reports
  • Quaternary
  • PLoS ONE

Best Publications

  • BIOCHRONOLOGY OF SELECTED MAMMALS, MOLLUSCS AND OSTRACODS FROM THE MIDDLE PLIOCENE TO THE LATE PLEISTOCENE IN ITALY. THE STATE OF THE ART

    Elsa Gliozzi;L. Abbazzi;P. Argenti;A. Azzaroli

  • Evidence of earliest human occurrence in Europe: the site of Pirro Nord (Southern Italy)

    Marta Arzarello;Federica Marcolini;Giulio Pavia;Marco Pavia

  • The origin of early Acheulean expansion in Europe 700 ka ago: new findings at Notarchirico (Italy).

    Marie-Hélène Moncel;Carmen Santagata;Carmen Santagata;Alison Pereira;Alison Pereira;Sébastien Nomade

  • Evidence of an Early Pleistocene hominin presence at Pirro Nord (Apricena, Foggia, southern Italy): P13 site

    Marta Arzarello;Giulio Pavia;Carlo Peretto;Carmelo Petronio

  • L’industrie lithique du site Pléistocène inférieur de Pirro Nord (Apricena, Italie du sud) : une occupation humaine entre 1,3 et 1,7 Ma

    Marta Arzarello;Federica Marcolini;Giulio Pavia;Marco Pavia

  • Stratigraphical and palaeontological data from the Early Pleistocene Pirro 10 site of Pirro Nord (Puglia, south eastern Italy)

    Marco Pavia;Marta Zunino;Mauro Coltorti;Chiara Angelone

  • Carnivora dispersal in Western Mediterranean during the last 2.6 Ma

    Maria Rita Palombo;Raffaele Sardella;Micaela Novelli

  • BIOCHRONOLOGY OF THE PLEISTOCENE MAMMAL FAUNA FROM PONTE GALERIA (ROME) AND REMARKS ON THE MIDDLE GALERIAN FAUNAS

    Carmelo Petronio;Raffaele Sardella

  • Evidence of late Gelasian dispersal of African fauna at Coste San Giacomo (Anagni Basin, central Italy): Early Pleistocene environments and the background of early human occupation in Europe

    L. Bellucci;F. Bona;P. Corrado;D. Magri

  • The Late Villafranchian (EarlyPleistocene) carnivores (Carnivora, Mammalia) from Pirro Nord (Italy)

    Mauro Petrucci;Alessia Cipullo;Bienvenido Martínez-Navarro;Lorenzo Rook

  • The site of Coste San Giacomo (Early Pleistocene, central Italy): Palaeoenvironmental analysis and biochronological overview

    Luca Bellucci;Ilaria Mazzini;Giancarlo Scardia;Luciano Bruni

  • Large mammal biochronology framework in Europe at Jaramillo: The Epivillafranchian as a formal biochron

    Luca Bellucci;Raffaele Sardella;Lorenzo Rook

  • Il Pleistocene inferiore nel ramo Sud-Occidentale del Bacino Tiberino (Umbria): aspetti litostratigrafici e biostratigrafici

    P. Ambrosetti;G. Basilici;L. Capasso Barbato;G. Carboni

  • Late persistence and deterministic extinction of "humid thermophilous plant taxa of East Asian affinity" (HUTEA) in southern Europe

    Edoardo Martinetto;Arata Momohara;Roberto Bizzarri;Angela Baldanza

  • The mammal faunas turnovers in Italy from the Middle Pliocene to the Holocene

    R. Sardella;D. Torre;L. Abbazzi;P. Argenti

  • The Plio-Pleistocene Old World dirk-toothed cat Megantereon ex gr. cultridens (Mammalia, Felidae, Machairodontinae), with comments on taxonomy, origin and evolution

    Raffaele Sardella

  • The wolf from Grotta Romanelli (Apulia, Italy) and its implications in the evolutionary history of Canis lupus in the Late Pleistocene of Southern Italy

    Raffaele Sardella;Davide Bertè;Dawid Adam Iurino;Marco Cherin

  • THE PLIOCENE-PLEISTOCENE BOUNDARY: WHICH SIGNIFICANCE FOR THE SO CALLED "WOLF EVENT"? EVIDENCES FROM WESTERN EUROPE

    Raffaele Sardella;Maria Rita Palombo

  • Re-Defining Canis etruscus (Canidae, Mammalia): A New Look into the Evolutionary History of Early Pleistocene Dogs Resulting from the Outstanding Fossil Record from Pantalla (Italy)

    Marco Cherin;Davide F. Bertè;Lorenzo Rook;Raffaele Sardella

  • Biochronology and biochron boundaries: A real dilemma or a false problem? An example based on the Pleistocene large mammalian faunas from Italy

    Maria Rita Palombo;Raffaele Sardella

  • Coupling basin infill history and mammal biochronology in a Pleistocene intramontane basin: The case of western L'Aquila Basin (central Apennines, Italy)

    Marco Mancini;Giuseppe Cavuoto;Luca Pandolfi;Carmelo Petronio

Frequent Co-Authors

Lorenzo Rook
Lorenzo Rook University of Florence
Maria Rita Palombo
Maria Rita Palombo Sapienza University of Rome
Massimo Delfino
Massimo Delfino University of Turin
Elsa Gliozzi
Elsa Gliozzi Roma Tre University
Paola Petrosino
Paola Petrosino University of Naples Federico II
Marie-Hélène Moncel
Marie-Hélène Moncel National Museum of Natural History
Luca Pandolfi
Luca Pandolfi University of Pisa
Brian R. Jicha
Brian R. Jicha University of Wisconsin–Madison
David M. Alba
David M. Alba Autonomous University of Barcelona
Donatella Magri
Donatella Magri Sapienza University of Rome

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