Vertical transhumance is historically known as an animal management practice in the Mediterranean that mitigates risk of overgrazing and unpalatable pastures. It has long been debated whether developed together with spread Neolithic Europe or if it was adopted later. This study explores evidence for transhumant pastoralism at Arene Candide, Northern Italy during Neolithic. We examine carbon (δ1...

In Voltaire's work, Candide, a young, naïve man, who has been taught that humans live in the best of all possible worlds, is thrust into the world only to find that this may not be so. He learns over time to balance his optimism with the skepticism he acquires through experience. While today's medical students are not naïve like the character Candide, they, nonetheless, carry an impression of t...

“Il Principe” (the Prince) is the nickname given to a spectacular Mid Upper Palaeolithic (Gravettian) burial discovered at Arene Candide, Italy in 1942. Arene Candide is a large cave located about 90 m above sea level on the slope of the Caprazoppa promontory, along the Ligurian coast near Finale Ligure (Savona, Italy). The cave is named after a dune of white siliceous sand of aeolian origin, b...