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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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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