Arturo Palma di Cesnola


Arturo Palma di Cesnola is an Italian archaeologist. He has worked extensively on the Italian Upper Palaeolithic.
Palma Di Cesnola defined the, one of the earliest modern human traditions in Europe, and is responsible for popularising the term Epigravettian for describing Upper Palaeolithic assemblages in Italy after the Last Glacial Maximum, a term coined by in 1958. He was also among the first Italian researchers to popularise in Italy Laplace's "analytical typology" for describing stone tools.