It is a very particular female figure, found during the excavations of 1974, directed by Bernardo Bagolini, against the wall where the historiated wind instrument obtained from a human femur was found; she was made on a lower left boar molar, decorated on one side only,…
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Elongated pebble of calcareous-silica stone with a sub-triangular shape which bears an anthropomorphic engraving on the front face, a female figure with a presumed herbivore (perhaps bovid or canid) head turned to the left and facing upwards, elongated snout with mouth opening clearly drawn, two ears develop on the back…
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The term "capeduncola" indicates a cup for liquids with an anthropomorphic appearance, probably used for ritual libations. On the Monte Polizo site we find two different capeduncles with anthropomorphic handles, the first in "House 1", the second in "House 3". These are two keeled cups from the Iron Age (VII century BC)…
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This is a clay idol discovered in the Sulmona basin, near the San Callisto springs (Popoli), near the sources of the Pescara river. The statuette was found without the head, with the right arm folded under the breasts (the other is missing), the legs flexed as if she were half seated and…
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Globule bones are still a small mystery of archaeology. Up to now 24 specimens have been found in Sicily, datable to the Early Bronze Age of Castellucciana facies (XXIII-XV century BC) which are added to a specimen from Tarxien (Malta), two from Puglia, one from Lerna (Peloponnese) and three from Troy….
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It is a female statuette discovered in 2000 in a Neolithic village called "La Marmotta" in Anguillara Sabazia, dated to the 360th millennium BC, a site currently submerged by the waters of Lake Bracciano, about 10 meters from the shore and about XNUMX meters deep from the water level. There…
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The cave is located in Porto Badisco, about 10 km south of the municipality of Otranto, in the province of Lecce; the main entrance is located about 28-30 meters above sea level, on the promontory of the inlet of Porto Badisco, and its maximum depth is about 26 meters below the level…
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It is a female burial found in the karst cave of Agnano, near Ostuni, in the province of Brindisi. This cave has been frequented since the end of the fourth millennium; in fact, important traces of religious attendance have been identified with sacrificial finds such as statuettes in the shape of pigs or…
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The cave is located in Contrada Scaloria, near the current Palazzetto dello Sport, in the immediate northern suburb of Manfredonia in the province of Foggia. Of particular interest is the lower part of the cave, site of an ancient cult of the waters. The area was investigated in 1967 but only following the…
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