Alessandra de Nardis Creative designer with a strong passion for communication and accessible information and with great attention to social issues. I collaborate on multimedia projects, and I dedicate myself to the design and creation of presentations for new brands and inclusive initiatives. My work is driven by passion, commitment and creativity, with the aim of putting my skills at the service of ideas that can contribute to a better world. As an independent researcher in prehistoric archaeology and mythology, I founded the blog-magazine of gender culture “Autrici di Civiltà” and I am product manager for the project “Preistoria in Italia”

Arianna Carta Specialized in Cultural Anthropology and Gender Studies, in 2024 she obtained a PhD in Cultural Anthropology at the University of Primorska in Koper. After a teaching experience at Elte University and the Italian Cultural Institute in Budapest, she returned to Italy, where she teaches in a high school. She deals with symbols and rituals in Sardinian archaeology, with particular attention to female cults. She has published various academic articles and presented his research results at international conferences.

Barbara Crescimanno Researcher and teacher at the School of Music and Traditional Dances Arci Tavola Tonda; you collaborate with the UniPa Chair of Ethnomusicology; she coordinates the TrizziRiDonna ethnocoreutic research group and leads a research path on the relationship between music and the sacred feminine; treatment performances of narrative theater, training and education courses between dance, percussion and vocality and the two-year training course CHORÓS Dances, Voices and Rhythms of Southern Italy. In 2019 you created the conference “The sacred in women. Figures and ritual forms in the Mediterranean area between memory and contemporaneity". She is building the WebMaps DEE and NINFE of SICILY and the Tarantella area.

Elvira Visciola Architect, she worked between Milan, Rome and Pescara where she currently lives. An expert traveler, passionate about history and archaeology, her research places particular attention on Italian Prehistory through a multidisciplinary method, which aims to combine technical-scientific knowledge and historical knowledge. Co-designer of the Preistoria In Italia website, of which she is the author of most of the archaeological data, and also coordinates the collection and publication.

Giusi Di Crescenzo I was about 20 years old in '68 when a "coincidence" gave me the opportunity to experience feminism and start a search towards freedom from the oppression of only rational thought through the encounter with Zen meditation and then with history of the civilization of the Great Mother. I am attracted by quantum physics, by its no longer talking about separate atoms, but of waves of energy, of probabilities, of patterns that change when observed, by its way of seeing the world as Shamans and Witches have always done.

Giulia Saltini Semerari Associate Professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Michigan. Her research focuses on the mobility and interactions among Mediterranean peoples, particularly between southern Italy, Greece, and Albania in the first millennium BC (Iron Age). She recently initiated a project on Adriatic mobility in protohistory, focusing on the two river valleys of Salento and Albania. Another area of ​​interest to her is the gendered organization of communities in this period, and in particular how it changes and adapts to the major historical changes that affected the Mediterranean from Greek colonization to the founding of the first urban centers. She co-directs a research group on this topic with other scholars of the Mediterranean.

Luciana Percovich In the Milanese feminist movement (Lotta femminista, Gruppo femminista per una Medicina delle Donne, Libreria delle Donne, Libera Università delle Donne), in the 70s she directed the non-fiction series Il Vaso di Pandora for La Salamandra Edizioni. She has written for various magazines dealing with medicine, science, anthropology, mythology. She collaborated with the Laima association of Turin in organizing the international conferences Culture Indigene di Pace (Indigenous Cultures of Peace) (2012, 2013, 2014 and 2016). Since 2005 she has directed the series of women's history and spirituality Le Civette Saggi for the publishing house Venexia. Books: Consciousness in the body. Women, health and medicine in the seventies, Franco Angeli, 2005; Dark Shining Mothers. The roots of the sacred and of religions, Venice, Rome, 2007; She who gives life. She who gives shape, Venice, 2009; To the Place of Origins. A path of research of the female self, Castelvecchi, 2016, She who gives life, She who gives form 2021– EBOOK

Maria Laura Leone Archaeologist, palethnologist and professor of art history, she carries out research in prehistoric art and cognitive archaeology. Among her works, the interpretation of the Stele Daunie, as simulacra that reveal the use of the Opium Poppy, and the paintings of Grotta dei Cervi (in Porto Badisco, Otranto) as expressions deriving from Modified States of Consciousness. She collaborated with the Camuno Center for Prehistoric Studies in Valcamonica, participated in research missions between France, China and Israel and held conferences in Italy, Sweden and Greece. In 2001 he created the online scientific journal www.artepreistorica.com. On the same site and on www.grottacervibadisco.it you can read and download some of his publications.

Contributions:

Cristina Muntoni, Daniela Degan, Donatella Livigni, Eleonora Ambrusiano, Enrica Tedeschi, Francesca Principi, Francesca Re, Francesca Rebbelato, Grazia Dentoni, Laura Violet Rimola, Marina Leopizzi, Oretta Di Carlo, Roberto Marras, Sarah Perini, Susanna Magnelli, Tatiana Melaragni