• An infant burial from Arma Veirana in northwestern Italy provides insights into funerary practices and female personhood in early Mesolithic Europe 

      Hodgkins, Jamie; Orr, Caley M.; Gravel-Miguel, Claudine; Riel-Salvatore, Julien; Miller, Christopher; Bondioli, Luca; Nava, Alessia; Lugli, Federico; Talamo, Sahra; Hajdinjak, Mateja; Cristiani, Emanuela; Romandini, Matteo; Meyer, Dominique; Drohobytsky, Danylo; Kuester, Falko; Pothier-Bouchard, Geneviève; Buckley, Mike; Mancini, Lucia; Baruffaldi, Fabio; Silvestrini, Sara; Arrighi, Simona; Keller, Hannah M.; Griggs, Rocío Belén; Peresani, Marco; Strait, David S.; Benazzi, Stefano; Negrino, Fabio (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)
      The evolution and development of human mortuary behaviors is of enormous cultural significance. Here we report a richly-decorated young infant burial (AVH-1) from Arma Veirana (Liguria, northwestern Italy) that is directly ...