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We would like to announce the conference with Luciana Percovich for SATURDAY, October 4, 2025, at 6:30 PM at the former Montegranatico – Serramanna. A journey through the images that have come down to us from the roots of humanity: the great themes that the renewed knowledge of Prehistory is posing to the very concept of Civilization as we have it…

We are thrilled to present and inaugurate on Monday, September 1st at 18.30:XNUMX PM "Frame Drum Atlas. Traditional Mediterranean Musical Instruments from Prehistory to the Present," a research project led by Barbara Crescimanno on the frame drum. Weaving together various disciplines (history, organology, ethnomusicology, archaeology, art history, history of religions, and gender…)

by Elvira Visciola An important study conducted by an international team led by the Universities of Florence, Bologna and Siena and published in “Nature Communications” with the title “Life history and ancestry of the late Upper Paleolithic infant from Grotta delle Mura, Italy” has reconstructed the biological history of a…

Sassari, from 3 to 6 October 2024 We would like to highlight an important conference that is part of the activities related to the project for the candidacy for the UNESCO World Heritage list of the serial site "Art and Architecture in the prehistory of Sardinia: The domus de Janas", consisting of 26 prehistoric monuments of…

We highlight this beautiful video which is a story that takes us on an unprecedented journey into the caves of Puglia. From the Gargano to the Murgia, from the Terra delle Gravine to Salento, a descent into the limestone heart of the region between wild, dizzying places, full of primeval, spectacular, and absolutely primitive silences "manufactured" in...

by Alessandra de Nardis Vlakno is a small cave located in the central area of ​​the island of Dugi otok (Long Island) in Croatia; positioned between the settlements of Luka and Savarcon, in the narrowest part of the island at a height of approx. 50 meters above sea level, it looks like a small…

On Raising Human Babies This scene is indicative of the imaginary—persistent in many of us—about how early humans lived. A dramatic image that evokes danger and male heroism. And it coincides with the dominant ideas in the West about the division of labor and the nuclear family that prevailed in the 60s,…

by Alessandra de Nardis The clay statuette dating back to 7000 years ago (Neolithic) was found at Poggio Nativo in Sabina, in the province of Rieti and is now the subject of a study coordinated by the Sapienza Department of Ancient Sciences. This valuable exhibit will add a lot of new information about that…

Announcing Scholar Salon 51: Register for February 9 Luciana Percovich, a foremother of women's studies and women's rights in Italy, presents the work of a new generation of researchers exploring the country's rich Paleolithic and Neolithic heritage in art and artifacts.