Professional address: Università di Ferrara, Dipartimento di Biologia

PRESENTATION
Name : Laura
Surname : Centi
Status/position: Student
Professional address: Università di Ferrara, Dipartimento di Biologia ed Evoluzione, Sezione di
Paleobiologia, Preistoria e Antropologia, Corso Ercole I d’Este 32, I-44100, Ferrara
Country: Italy
Phone number : 3477197774
e-mail: [email protected]
Laura Centi is a student of the Ferrara University and she’s currently attending the Matser in Quaternary,
Prehistory and Archeology, double degree with the Polytechnic Institute of Tomar, Portugal.
She gradueted in 2010, with the Ferrara University, in the study course of Technologies for Cultural
Heritage, with a thesis entitled: “The last Levallois: techno-economy of the lithic production and spatial
organization of the A5-A6 complex (44.000 cal. BP) of Fumane Cave (Verona). Study of two different kinds
of flint.”, where she analized two diffrent tipology of flint from the stratigraphic units A5 and A6 of Fumane
Cave, with the technological and the tecno-economical study of the industry, the realization of the spatial
distribution of the most relevant findings and the check of eventual refitting between the flakes.
She partecipated in diffrent excavations, particularly at Fumane Cave since 2009, but also in others sites in
Italy and abroad, from different periods, from the Lower Paleolithic to the Middle Ages.
KEY WORDS
PERIOD : Middle Paleolithic
GEOGRAPHY : Italy, North-eastern region
SPECIALITY : Study of the lithic assemblage
CULTURE/TECHNO-COMPLEX : Mousterian
RESEARCH TASK AT FUMANE
Study of the lithic assemblage of levels A5 and A6.