by Elvira Visciola Marija Gimbutas spoke of ancient Europe for the Neolithic, including a vast territory in which populations moved bringing with them their own customs and traditions which they transferred to the populations they met. In reality, although the traces are more fleeting and distant even by several thousand…
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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 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 Taken from Marija Gimbutas – Twenty years of study on the Goddess – Proceedings of the Conference of the same name – Rome 9-10 May 2014 – Laima Editorial Project – Turin What we deduce when the art and shapes of the walls of two imposing prehistoric sanctuaries , such as the Chauvet cave in the Ardeche in France and the Grotta dei Cervi in Porto…
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