Francesco Berna
Simon Fraser University
68 Papers
318 Citations
Francesco Berna is an academic researcher from Simon Fraser University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Cave & Geology. The author has an hindex of 31, co-authored 68 publications. Previous affiliations of Francesco Berna include University of Milan & Boston University.
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Papers
Microstratigraphic evidence of in situ fire in the Acheulean strata of Wonderwerk Cave, Northern Cape province, South Africa
Francesco Berna,Paul Goldberg,Liora Kolska Horwitz,James S. Brink,Sharon Holt,Marion K. Bamford,Michael Chazan +6 more
TL;DR: Micromorphological and Fourier transform infrared microspectroscopy analyses of intact sediments at the site of Wonderwerk Cave provide unambiguous evidence—in the form of burned bone and ashed plant remains—that burning took place in the cave during the early Acheulean occupation, approximately 1.0 Ma.
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Solubilities of bone mineral from archaeological sites: the recrystallization window
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors measured the solubility of carbonated hydroxyl apatite of sub-recent and fossil bones, as well as synthetic hydroxym apatitic in deionized water and in pH-buffered solutions.
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Earliest human occupations at Dmanisi (Georgian Caucasus) dated to 1.85-1.78 Ma.
Reid Ferring,Oriol Oms,Jordi Agustí,Francesco Berna,Medea Nioradze,Teona Shelia,Martha Tappen,Abesalom Vekua,David Zhvania,David Lordkipanidze +9 more
TL;DR: The secure age for D manisi's first occupations reveals that Eurasia was probably occupied before Homo erectus appears in the East African fossil record, and shows that the southern Caucasus was occupied repeatedly before Dmanisi's hominin fossil assemblage accumulated.
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Bedding, hearths, and site maintenance in the Middle Stone Age of Sibudu Cave, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
Paul Goldberg,Paul Goldberg,Christopher E. Miller,Solveig Schiegl,Bertrand Ligouis,Francesco Berna,Nicholas J. Conard,Lyn Wadley +7 more
TL;DR: Micromorphological analysis of sediments from the Middle Stone Age site of Sibudu Cave, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, provides a high-resolution sequence and evidence of site formation processes of predominantly anthropogenic deposits.
Sediments exposed to high temperatures: reconstructing pyrotechnological processes in Late Bronze and Iron Age Strata at Tel Dor (Israel)
Francesco Berna,Adi Behar,Ruth Shahack-Gross,John Berg,Elisabetta Boaretto,Ayelet Gilboa,Ilan Sharon,Sariel Shalev,Sariel Shalev,Sana Shilstein,Naama Yahalom-Mack,Jeffrey R. Zorn,Steve Weiner +12 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors used micromorphology, Fourier transform infrared spectrometry (FTIR), X-ray powder diffractometry (XRD), and XRF spectrometers to characterize natural sediments sampled on and in the proximity of the tell and monitor their transformations due to exposure to high temperatures in an oven and in open fires, focusing on the transformations of the clay mineral components of mud-brick materials.
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