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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by Joan MarlerTaken from Joan Marler – From the Realm of the Ancestors. An Anthology in Honor of Marija Gimbutas – Knowledge, Ideas and Trends Inc. – 1997 The wide variety of voices collected in this volume represents a tribute to the extraordinary depth and depth of the research carried out by Marija Gimbutas….
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by Luciana Percovich The New Yorker of December 14, 2020, in the Annals of Science column, publishes an article that attempts a synthesis of the results of population genetic studies within a project to map the human species, its movements and interbreeding over the course of of millennia. Douglas' article…
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by Laura Violet Rimola In the Civic Archaeological Museum of Sesto Calende, right in the center of the main hall, a rich funerary equipment dating back to the 1977th century BC is exhibited, occasionally discovered in March XNUMX in the Mulini Bellaria area in Sesto Calende, a few steps from the banks of the Ticino. The Ticino River…
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by Maria Laura Leone Writing about Grotta dei Cervi in Porto Badisco in Salento is stimulating and arduous. The artistic complexity and the anthropological phenomenon that characterize it involve science, philosophy and neurology at the same time. It is a singular place and dealing with it, as with my excursus linked to it,…
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by Maria Laura Leone During the works for the reopening to the public of the Pulo di Molfetta (Bari), in 2020, two engraved pebbles emerged whose interest falls within the sphere of prehistoric art (source). The meaning of art, as we understand it today, is far from what we attribute to mass…
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by Alessandra de Nardis Prehistory is certainly an inexhaustible place of questions that are unlikely to ever find answers. When we try to reconstruct our origins, intuition remains perhaps the only useful faculty since it draws on the deepest and most recondite ancestral memories. Despite the scarcity of artifacts created by our…
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by Giusi Di Crescenzo The Grotta del Colle in Rapino, in the province of Chieti, on the eastern slope of the Maiella, is certainly one of the most evocative archaeological sites of the Abruzzo Mother Mountain and also a clear example of how the ancient history of the sacred is the history of places of nature that…
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