Arturo Palma di Cesnola

Arturo Palma di Cesnola (14 March 1928 – 9 July 2019)Firenze^[1][2][3] is an Italian archaeologist. He has worked extensively on the Italian Upper Palaeolithic.

Palma di Cesnola defined the Uluzzien [de], one of the earliest modern human traditions in Europe,^[1] and is responsible for popularising the term Epigravettian for describing Upper Palaeolithic assemblages in Italy after the Last Glacial Maximum,^[4] a term coined by Georges Laplace [fr] in 1958.^[5] He was also among the first Italian researchers to popularise in Italy Laplace's "analytical typology" for describing stone tools.^[6]