by Antonella della Morte (Alma) and Alfredo Finotto (Frædior)Taken from Sarah Perini (edited by) – Riflessi della Dea – La Cicala – Oneiros – 2022 There is a place in the middle of Italy, under high mountains, noble and celebrated for fame in many districts, the Valli d'Ansanto: dark with dense fronds…
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by Alessandra Fumai Describing a culture starting from the body, starting from the way in which the bodies cadence the ritual and daily space, can provide a non-naive reading of social organizations different from ours. When it comes to matriarchy and matriarchal culture we must, in my opinion, maintain a…
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by Alessandra De Nardis An article by the French journalist Manon Meyer appeared on National Geographic on January 3, 2023 entitled: "Why did prehistoric men and women paint in caves?"; the text is an interview with Jean-Loïc Le Quellec, prehistoric archaeologist, anthropologist and director emeritus of research at the CNRS who of…
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by Maria Laura Leone The famous statue of Passo di Corvo was found in the Neolithic village of the same name in the plain of Foggia, at the foot of the Gargano mountains. It has been photographed and analyzed several times, commented in various writings [1]; and portrayed in a relief that clearly highlights its symbols, described…
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by Elvira Visciola under the supervision of Elisa Bianchi, Conservator of the Archaeological Museum of Finale The Caverna delle Arene Candide is of fundamental importance at an international level as it provides a sequence of about 10 meters of sediments with traces of human attendance between the Upper Paleolithic (about 32.000 BC)…
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by Arianna Carta That Marija Gimbutas was a genius and that she revolutionized Neolithic archeology is a fact that is clearly evident from her university career, publications and direction of international excavations at a time when women archaeologists had to stay locked up in their rooms. Little known…
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by Manuela Orrù Living the experience of descending into a Sacred Well is certainly something capable of bringing out new or perhaps just forgotten emotions, buried under layers of millenary culture that has distanced us from those people who, with so much trust, passion and care, they built them. Slowly go down the steps…
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by Daniela Degan An open window on the ancient Umbrian population, its socio-political organization, the writing and public rituals of a community religiosity. The language of the Umbrians is part of my life, because my female lineage draws its origins and its strength from the land of Gubbio: place of…
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by Donatella Livigni What place does sound occupy in our lives as individuals and as a community and what space of meaning did it occupy for those who preceded us and, going back in time, for pre-Christian and prehistoric civilizations?Marija Gimbutas singled out a lot of information related to these civilizations…
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by Giusi Di Crescenzo The beginning of the Neolithic in the middle Adriatic area coincides with the most evolved phase of the Early Neolithic in southern Italy. “… The so-called “Neolithic package”, which arrives in southern Italy around 8000 years from today, seems to manifest itself with a slight chronological gap in the middle-Adriatic area, constantly placing itself between 5800…
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