Sassari, from 3 to 6 October 2024 We would like to highlight an important conference that is part of the activities related to the project for the candidacy for the UNESCO World Heritage list of the serial site "Art and Architecture in the prehistory of Sardinia: The domus de Janas", consisting of 26 prehistoric monuments of…
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by Alessandra de Nardis and Elvira Visciola In 2020, a short article was published on the pages of Preistoria in Italia, "A necklace of deer teeth from 16.000 years ago", on a particular object found in a burial discovered in 1934 in southern France. western, in Saint-Germain-La-Rivière, dated to the Middle Magdalenian,…
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Introduction by Luciana Percovich It will take more than thirty years for my theses to be recognized, Marija Gimbutas repeated a few years before her death. Aware of the extent of her vision and her foreignness – not only geographically but culturally in a WASP (White Anglo Saxon Protestant) world, which…
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by Enrica Tedeschi Those who considered her indigenous and autochthonous (Vespasian and Titus Tatius) defined her as daughter of Sabo, mythical king of the Sabines, and granddaughter of Sanco (god of oaths, main male Sabine deity). According to other narratives (Varro and Dionysius of Halicarnassus), the goddess arrived in Italy with the Pelasgians...
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kq_4SrRY7qA Eccoci giunt* all’ultimo degli INCONTRI di PREISTORIA prima della pausa estiva. Mercoledì 19 Giugno 2024 Giorgio Samorini ha presentato la sua relazione dal titolo Archeologia delle piante psicoattive in Italia e Maria Laura Leone ci ha parlato di Archeologia dell’oppio in Daunia: fra stele, vasi e figure femminili. Giorgio…
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August 8, 2024 by Alessandra de Nardis and Elvira Visciola In 2020, a short article was published on the pages of Preistoria in Italia, "A necklace of deer teeth from 16.000 years ago", on a particular object found in a burial discovered in 1934 in southern France. western, in Saint-Germain-La-Rivière, dated to the Middle Magdalenian,…
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May 29, 2024 Introduction by Luciana Percovich It will take more than thirty years for my theses to be recognized, Marija Gimbutas repeated a few years before her death. Aware of the extent of her vision and her foreignness – not only geographically but culturally in a WASP (White Anglo Saxon Protestant) world, which…
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December 2, 2023 by Enrica Tedeschi Those who considered her indigenous and autochthonous (Vespasian and Titus Tatius) defined her as daughter of Sabo, mythical king of the Sabines, and granddaughter of Sanco (god of oaths, main male Sabine deity). According to other narratives (Varro and Dionysius of Halicarnassus), the goddess arrived in Italy with the Pelasgians...
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July 2, 2023 by Francesca Principi The large knotted rings are one of the most characteristic symbols of the Piceno culture even though they remain, to this day, finds whose true meaning remains mostly obscure. To understand the cultural context in which these objects were created, it is of fundamental importance to make a premise on identity…
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May 23, 2023 Autochthonous civilizations lit up along the coasts of the Danube, with strong signals of equal and community culture. A tribute to Marija Gimbutas, visionary archaeologist. by Harald Haarmann and Mariagrazia Pelaia Discovering Ancient Europe. In the preface to her fundamental work entitled The Civilization of the Goddess (1991; transl. It .: La civilization…
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