Eugenia Isetti and Antonella Traverso
PREHISTORY MEETINGS are events organized and created by the site's editorial staff
PREHISTORY IN ITALY and have the aim of stimulating interest and disseminating the study of prehistory in our country.
This is the recording of the fourth appointment which took place on January 24, 2024
We meet two scholars in the field, Antonella Traverso and Eugenia Isetti who will tell us about Grotta Scaloria, an archaeological site located in Manfredonia, in the province of Foggia, the subject of investigations in the 70s and 80s by Marija Gimbutas and Santo Tinè. The results of these investigations were never published until 2012, when substantial funding from an American institution allowed the collection and publication of the unpublished data in a very interesting book published in 2016, "The Archeology of Grotta Scaloria”. Eugenia Isetti and Antonella Traverso have actively contributed, together with Ernestine Elster and John Robb, to this great work by putting together the data scattered in various archives, sometimes even private ones, and therefore it is a great privilege for us this evening to be able to hear directly from the authors what the cave has so far been able to tell. We briefly introduce them
Antonella Traverso, archaeologist at the Ministry of Culture, working at the Liguria Regional Museums Directorate. Her work focuses on the prehistory and neolithization of Southern Italy. You have carried out several excavation campaigns in Italy, Greece and Turkey and continue to work in Grotta Scaloria. There are many publications by her.
Eugenia Isetti, directs the Italian Institute for Experimental Archeology at the University of Genoa.
His work, focused on the prehistory of southern Italy, centers on the material culture of pottery and polished stone tools. Her first professional experience saw her participate in the Scaloria cave excavation campaigns of 1978-79 and 1980 and currently also in the Occhiopinto cave. He has published numerous scientific articles in national and international books and journals.
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