Zanichelli, Bologna 1995. The excavations were resumed in 1967 by the University of Ferrara, initially under the direction of Prof. P. Leonardi, then by Prof. A. Broglio, and currently by Prof. A. Guerreschii . The history of Riparo Tagliente is a complex one. The site seems to have been abandoned at the end of the W rm Late Glacial. The subsequent deforestation of the slopes favoured their erosion and the deposits situated at the base were covered with clayey material.
Loess sediments prevail, while the arboreal cover becomes almost non existent.
The industries of all these deposits are Mousterian. At the top of the series, and in apparent stratigraphic continuity, the deposit of level 25 contains an Aurignacian industry with Dufours bladelets. The naturalistic data suggest that the series corresponds to an entire glacial cycle. The upper stratigraphic unit is separated from one below by a river erosion surface and by a bank of gravel. It has an irregular thickness, being thinner in the internal part and thicker in the external part, because of the presence of the erosive escarpment and because of the greater anthropic accumulation.