by Barbara Crescimanno The cult paid to the nymphs testifies to an intertwining of plans – very concrete and embodied – that today we feel distant and separate from each other (the human, divine, animal, vegetable, sacred and profane world); evidence of a relationship between human beings and the 'Kosmos' much more…
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by Giusi Di Crescenzo The culture of Catignano belongs to the ancient phase of affirmation of the culture of painted ceramics: between 5400 and 4900 BC Its discovery filled a gap in the prehistory of the Abruzzo region and made it possible to reunite the advanced phase from the…
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by Paola Di Giannantonio Foreword Demetra forever was the title that, years ago, I gave to my study on the popular festival of my town. A town enclosed in the heart of the Abruzzo Apennines: Goriano Sicoli. A name that recalls Sicily, a singular name for being in the province of L'Aquila. A country not…
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by Luciana Percovich and Aldina De Stefano The Natisone valleys are located in the easternmost part of Friuli-Venezia Giulia. They are formed by the valley of the Natisone river and by those crossed by its tributaries, the Alberone, the Cosizza and the Erbezzo, following a fan system, which converges towards the south. The mountain…
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by Giulia Goggi Fossa is a site in the province of L'Aquila, generally referring to the Sabellic population of the Vestini, whose first evidence dates back to the mid-XNUMXrd century BC. C. thanks to a coin legend in which VES appears in a series of aes graves also adopted in other…
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by Grazia Dentoni This is the story of a journey through space and time, it is the story of ten years of theatrical research that began when I became a mother, and I studied as a perinatal educator, a female figure who supports pregnant women, in I leave and after…
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by Alessandra de Nardis The discovery in Arma Veirana of AVH-1, a newborn renamed Neve by archaeologists, took place inside a long-studied cave in the Ligurian Pre-Alps in the province of Savona; the analyzes of amelogenin, a protein present in tooth buds and the results of which have recently been…
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by Elvira Visciola What kind of cult of the dead did the Neolithic populations of Grotta Scaloria practice? A study published in 2015 in the journal Antiquity has highlighted probable ancient funeral rites in use over 7000 years ago among the populations who inhabited the south-east of our peninsula, rituals…
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by Maria Laura Leone For various ancient and traditional societies, the female theme was the main theme in art and craftsmanship. It also occurred in the most ancient Daunia with the stele-statues, I have already dealt with this in a previous article written in English[1], of which the present is a partial review. The analysis…
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by Oretta Di Carlo, Enrica Tedeschi, Susanna Magnelli, Donatella Livigni and Tatiana Melaragni The cult of the goddess Feronia is known to us thanks to the numerous news that the authors of Latin and Greek literature have left us, to the numerous epigraphs of the classical era and also to a coin, which reproduces the…
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