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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by Arianna Carta Sardinia is an open-air temple dotted with sacred manifestations or, to quote Eliade, hierophanies: nuraghes, domus de janas, giants' tombs, menhirs and sacred wells that blend with zoo and anthropomorphic rocks (valley of the moon , elephant rock, bear rock etc.) caves, earth,…
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by Ernestina Cinosi "An exceptional example of an old Italian toponym that has remained intact to this day, a miraculous survival transmitted through twenty-five centuries (...), has been ascertained at the foot of the Majella." An old toponym that recurs in the myth, in the sacred law of the Marrucino people, in the name of the archaeological site…
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by Giusi Di Crescenzo It all started with the passion that the doctor of Corropoli, Concezio Rosa, put into looking for, in the area where he lived and worked, some more news on what the farmers of the area were finding while they were hoeing the fields: mostly more worked stones called “lightning…
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by Roberto Marras During the now distant academic year 1989/90 I had the pleasure of following the lessons of prof. Santo Tinè, then professor of palethnology at the University of Genoa. To his credit he already boasted considerable excavating experience in his native Sicily, under the guidance of Luigi Bernabò Brea, and…
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by Alessandra de Nardis André Leroi-Gourhan (1911-1986), considered one of the world's greatest specialists in prehistory, hypothesized that animals were part of a symbolic system of the living world maintained with small variations throughout the duration of Paleolithic art. This symbolic system implied a distribution of animal species in two…
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by Elvira Visciola The Grotta di Fumane represents one of the most important archaeological archives of the Middle and Upper Paleolithic in Europe. First inhabited by Homo Neanderthalensis and later by Homo Sapiens, in a period ranging from about 90 to 25 thousand years ago, it offers important evidence of the dynamics that…
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by Elvira Visciola The complex of Balzi Rossi or Grimaldi, so called from the nearby village, has been the subject of numerous archaeological investigations since the mid-800th century which have brought to light paleontological and archaeological finds and evidence belonging to the various phases of the Paleolithic. The complex is located in the…
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by Antonella Traverso Research The Balzi Rossi caves, originally 11 in number, were already known in the 1700s, but the first to conduct scientific investigations there was Prince Florestano I of Monaco in 1846. However, the first to describe the complex stratigraphy of some of the caves…
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by Manuela Orrù A stone stuck in the ground, this is “Perda fitta” and it's not easy to tell how long it is planted there. If he could relate what he has seen, a lifetime would not be enough to hear the rivers of words with which he would flood our incredulous ears. In his seraphic and…
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