by Alessandra de Nardis To restore comes from the Latin restituĕre, composed of: re-, “back”, “again”, “to the original point” and statuĕre, “to place”, “to place”, “to put in a state”. It therefore literally means “to put back in its place”, “to bring back to a previous state”, “to give back what had been taken away or lost[1]. In its core therefore, “to restore” implies a…
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by Alessandra de Nardis and Elvira Visciola In 2020, a short article was published on the pages of Preistoria in Italia, "A necklace of deer teeth from 16.000 years ago", on a particular object found in a burial discovered in 1934 in southern France. western, in Saint-Germain-La-Rivière, dated to the Middle Magdalenian,…
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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 Alessandra de Nardis Some time ago an article by Dr. Izzy Wisher, researcher at the Archeology department of Durham University in the United Kingdom, appeared on the web dissemination channels. The article deals with an interesting find that occurred in Saint-Germain-La-Rivière in southwestern France where a burial was found…
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by Alessandra Pilloni 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 Goni is a very small town in the province of Cagliari, in that area of Sardinia which takes Gerry's name. On…
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