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In the ceramics of the Culture of Ripoli three main classes are distinguished: figurine of highly purified mixture of yellow or pink colour, fine black or reddish smoothed and polished, coarse with large inclusions and white granules. In fine pottery, truncated conical bowls predominate, often decorated on the inside, just below the rim, with a…

It is one of three finds recovered in the Colli Albani area, a mountainous relief of volcanic origin located southeast of the capital; fortuitously found en plein air on woodland and referable to the Upper Paleolithic (10,000-40,000 BC) the three artefacts that can be considered elements of movable art are: the female figure…

The settlement of Via Guidorossi (Parma) is a site of notable interest which has a rather long chronological span of life, from prehistory to Roman times: here we will refer to the most ancient phase, which covers a good part of the Middle Neolithic (I and II phase of the culture of Square Mouth Vessels), looking…

The "shelter under the rock" is located in the Centuripe area (Enna), in the Picone district, on the right bank of the Simeto river, just 2 km from the Stentinellian necropolis of Fontanazza, on the opposite bank of the river (see fig. 1). The definition of "shelter" is inaccurate: the place, in fact, does not protect against the agents...

In the territory of the municipality of Spadafora, in the locality of San Martino, two areas have been identified which attest to inhabited settlements during the Neolithic period, dating back to the XNUMXth millennium BC and which currently represent the most ancient evidence of the Tyrrhenian coast of Messina. The first site was located near a course…

The sacred well of Santa Vittoria is located within one of the most important cultural complexes of Nuragic Sardinia which houses various structures, including housing, and is located in the Serri area, Sardinia. The archaeological site, built during the Bronze Age, has ample traces of occupations in the following centuries and…

In the heights above Palma di Montechiaro, in the area of ​​Monte Grande, several structures have been identified which seem to form a monumental Castelluccian sanctuary dating back to a middle phase of the Ancient Sicilian Bronze Age and frequented up to the Middle Bronze Age. The area is rich in extraordinarily pure sulfur mines (exploited since…

Stylistically different from the Neolithic figurine of Gaban, this one comes from the Mesolithic layer: it is a female figurine carved in bas-relief on a red deer horn support, with very realistic anatomical details, depicted in an upright position with arms extended along the wide sides; she has a prominent belly, almost covering the…

There are several finds recovered in the Gaban shelter (see here, here and here), but the best known is the stylized female figure, found during the first excavation campaign of 1972, directed by Bernardo Bagolini, next to a Neolithic hearth regenerated several times ; the artifact was found nearby…

During the works to arrange the roof of the excavation area, which took place in 1973, this pebble was found inside a hollowed niche on the wall, about one meter away from the place of discovery of the statuette (Venus) of Gaban and of the historiated handle. Along with this item were…