From Marzia Vaccari Serra's ALMAGULP website we highlight this article which represents an important testimony by Elettra Ingravallo, professor of Paleethnology at the University of Salento, who unfortunately passed away on 2 March 2020. Defined as "the intellectual of archaeology", she transmitted his passion for prehistory as a study of exchange between people and…
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We report an interesting article published by the Center for GeoGenetics of the Natural History Museum of Denmark in 2017 which brings further confirmation to the theories of the great Lithuanian archaeologist and linguist Marija Gimbutas. How bands of young steppe migrants were civilized by Stone Age agricultural women. Close encounters….
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byTeri Volini…. that war has always existed…..The metaphor of war is widely used in the time of Covid-19, with a whole repertoire of similar words: fight, fight, attack, assault, annihilate, defeat, weapons, battle and similar. The automated choice of war terms is strange, but it doesn't have to be…
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by Manuela Candini Manuela Candini, professor at the Academy of Fine Arts of Bologna and Crona, sends us these not too well-known images of a small treasure from Campania, the Matres Matutae, a name freely translatable into "Mothers of the returning light" and venerated as protectors of women giving birth. Their main feature is…
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On Friday 6 December from 16pm to 30pm in Pescara we would like to point out the presentation of the book by Judy Foster and Marlene Derlet THE INVISIBLE WOMEN OF PREHISTORY Three million years of peace, six thousand years of war published by Venexia for the Civette Saggi; present Luciana Percovich, Chiara Eusebio and Giusi…
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by Alessandra De Nardis During an excavation campaign in northern France, in the prehistoric site of Renancourt, in Amiens at the confluence of the Selle and Somme valleys, a team from the National Research Institute of Preventive Archeology brought to light a figurine from unmistakable style that immediately caused it to be renamed…
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Friday 25 January at 16,30 pm I Luoghi dell'anima bookshop – Pescara Via Campobasso 14Luciana Percovich – Chiara Eusebio – Giusi Di Crescenzo Present On the trail of the Great Mother – journey into the womb of history by Giuditta Pellegrini of the Le Civette series of the Venexia publishing house A journey between past and present…
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Something is moving in the Academy among Archaeologists: Marija Gimbutas' most determined opponent, Colin Renfrew, now recognizes that she was right. We publish some passages from a letter by Joan MARLER in which she gives news of the changed attitude of Colin Renfrew, the archaeologist who fought hard against the kurgan hypothesis. He…
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