In the fourth of the PREHISTORY MEETINGS on Friday, May 16, we had the pleasure of listening to Elvira Visciola on: The Paleolithic population in Ancient Europe; analysis and interpretations of contexts, customs and rites of a culture. Those who follow us know the work of Elvira Visciola and her research that places particular…

The third of the PREHISTORY MEETINGS on Friday, April 11th is an interview. We at Preistoria in Italia asked 10 questions to the philosopher and author of the text Matriarchal societies of the past and the birth of patriarchates. Western Asia and Europe to delve deeper into the themes covered in her latest work and…

https://youtu.be/6k09Gq8Ovjs Il secondo degli INCONTRI di PREISTORIA di venerdì il 21 Marzo 2025.Bruna Tadolini, autrice del testo L’evoluzione al femminile. Il contributo delle femmine all’evoluzione dell’uomoLaureata in Scienze Biologiche a Bologna, Bruna Tadolini ha percorso la carriera universitaria prima presso le Facoltà di Medicina e di Farmacia di questa Università…

We publish the recording of the first of the PREHISTORY MEETINGS of 2025 which took place on February 26th.Donatella Livigni, Performer of Singing in Nature, teacher of Vocal Functionality and anthropologist of sound, deals with research and training in pedagogical-functional practices related to sound, voice and sacred spaces – sites equipped…

The recent death of Andrew Colin Renfrew, one of the great archaeologists of the last and present century, reopens the debate on the origin of the Indo-Europeans; his name is in fact linked to the Anatolian hypothesis as the original homeland of the Proto-Indo-Europeans, a theory opposed to the Kurganic one of Marija Gimbutas, according to which the Proto-Indo-Europeans would be…

In this section of the site we collect video documents, some unpublished for the Italian public, concerning Marija Gimbutas; we will continue the research and collection of such documents also to commemorate the scholar who inspired this site and whose death falls thirtieth anniversary this year. Lithuanian Chronicle 1994…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kq_4SrRY7qA Eccoci giunt* all’ultimo degli INCONTRI di PREISTORIA prima della pausa estiva. Mercoledì 19 Giugno 2024 Giorgio Samorini ha presentato la sua relazione dal titolo Archeologia delle piante psicoattive in Italia e Maria Laura Leone ci ha parlato di Archeologia dell’oppio in Daunia: fra stele, vasi e figure femminili. Giorgio…

Fourth of the PREHISTORY MEETINGS of 2024 On Wednesday 22 May we had the pleasure of listening to Professor Annaluisa Pedrotti again on Women and Men of Stone: a study of South Tyrolean stelae. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZJmQAnWAw4 The next meetings, now scheduled for autumn, will be communicated on the website www.preistoriainitalia.it and on the Facebook page…

(The recording of the meeting at the bottom of the page) 3rd Prehistory Conference in Italy 13-03-2024 18.30-20.00 pm Antonia Pintori – The female aspect in Nuragic sacred sources: the case of Noddule in Sardinia Guido Palmerini – The discovery of Palmerini ravine as part of research on rock art of the Abruzzo Apennines Antonia Pintori, degree in Cultural Heritage…

We publish the second of the PREHISTORY MEETINGS of 2024 with Arianna Carta's reports entitled On the Trail of the Goddess. Symbols of female power from the Neolithic to popular traditions in Sardinia and by Giulia Saltini Semerari who spoke on Gender Organization in Southern Italy in the Iron Age….

Wednesday 14 February 2024 18pm – 30pm The PREHISTORY MEETINGS are events organized and carried out by the editorial team of the PREISTORIA IN ITALIA website and have the aim of stimulating interest and disseminating the study of prehistory in our country. The meeting on February 20, 00 will see the reports of the anthropologist Arianna…

Eugenia Isetti and Antonella Traverso https://youtu.be/MP_Lghn3yo4 PREHISTORY MEETINGS are events organized and carried out by the editorial team of the PREISTORIA IN ITALIA website 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. Let's meet…

The third of the PREHISTORY MEETINGS was dedicated to Menhirs and Steles, and the participating regions were Valle d'Aosta and Puglia with the research of palethnologist Maria Laura Leone for Puglia and archaeologist Gianfranco Zidda for Valle d' Aosta. Maria Laura Leone, paletnologist, researcher of…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ClxCh5gM4vM Continuano gli INCONTRI DI PREISTORIA, appuntamenti organizzati e realizzati dalla redazione del sito PREISTORIA IN ITALIA con lo scopo di stimolare l’interesse e divulgare lo studio sulla preistoria nel nostro paese. Questo, il secondo appuntamento, avvenuto il 3 Maggio 2023. ARIANNA CARTA, dottoranda in Antropologia culturale presso l’Università di…

https://youtu.be/z89zXmyYY9o Questi INCONTRI DI PREISTORIA sono appuntamenti organizzati e realizzati dalla redazione del sito PREISTORIA IN ITALIA ed hanno lo scopo di stimolare l’interesse e divulgare lo studio sulla preistoria nel nostro paese. Questa che pubblichiamo è la registrazione del primo appuntamento avvenuto il 13 Aprile 2023 con le docenti…

For the series of meetings on the sacred feminine organized by Barbara Crescimanno of the CHOROS association, we are publishing the interview that took place online on the Arci Tavola Tonda Facebook page on 29 January 2022 with Luciana Percovich on the theme: The vision of the Sacred in Paleolithic cultures and European Neolithic. We are used to…

Watch the video on Vimeo The Video Neolithic Mysteries: Revealing in 3D the Grotta dei Cervi di Porto Badisco (2009-2011), edited by Virginia Valzano (University of Salento), contains the backstage and the results of the Project "Grotta dei Cervi - Porto Badisco”, a project initiated and coordinated by Virginia Valzano…

https://youtu.be/u2XCyQbdYdk Si è svolta il 2 Ottobre 2021 presso il Teatro Nuovo di Capodarco di Fermo una giornata seminariale dedicata all’archeologa Marija Gimbutas nel centenario della sua nascita, dal titolo Marija Gimbutas. 100 Anni di Futuro Anteriore. L’evento ideato da Eleonora Paniconi e Valeria Felsi in collaborazione con l’Associazione Culturale…

Dames et princes de la prehistoire (the link is no longer available) Shot partly in the Dordogne region of France and the Balzi Rossi area of ​​Italy, this 52-minute documentary chronicles the exceptional Paleolithic burials that continue to remain very little known to the great public. Dated for…

by Luciana Percovich Signs out of time was made by Donna Read and Starhawk in 2003 for the Canadian producer Belili Productions as a tribute to Marija Gimbutas to remember her 10 years after her death. Initially subtitled by the Armonie Association of Bologna, at the suggestion of Sandra Schiassi, it retraces its…

https://youtu.be/bJ52g8ndsyU Dall’archivio dell’ Istituto Italiano di Preistoria e Protostoria SEGNI DALLA PREISTORIAArte rupestre italiana dall’Archivio IIPP Nel trentennale dalla scomparsa di Paolo Graziosi, fondatore e presidente dell’Istituto Italiano di Preistoria e Protostoria, l’IIPP ha deciso di puntare l’obiettivo sul proprio fondatore e sul suo più significativo ambito di studi: l’arte…