It is a pebble of fine-grained gray sandstone shaped by the fluvial flow into an oblong shape with rounded ends (phallic shape), with a slightly arched longitudinal axis and an ellipsoidal cross-section. The head separated from the trunk by an engraved furrow is decorated with incisions that seem to represent a hair…
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These are 21 statuettes, only some intact and most of them reduced to fragments, found inside the cave of the Arene Candide in the various layers of excavation, most of them on reworked ground and only a few of them come from levels dated with certainty to Middle Neolithic, precisely to the culture…
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The statuette, found by a farmer who was plowing a field in the Perfugas area (Sassari), is mutilated by the very child that the female figure was holding to her chest and whose presence can be recognized from some traces. It is an example of a “geometric-volumetric” style female statuette about 11…
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It is a female statuette in the round, probably forming part of the handle of a vase, with a strong naturalistic imprint and with physiognomic details and clothing details made with paint. The figurine has a continuous cylindrical structure, without interruptions between the head, torso, hips and limbs; the nape…
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Referring to the cultural context of the megalithic complex of Monte Grande are the clay horns, or birds' beaks, commonly interpreted as phallic symbols (Fig. 1a-bc) and which constitute, as highlighted by Cultraro (2010), one of the types of artifacts among those most present in Castelluccian sites, both in necropolises and in inhabited areas….
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Cylindrical statuette, made of light beige purified dough, without arms. “…The breasts, mutilated, are marked by two lines painted in ocher that cross in an X-shape in the center of the chest and continue on the body, which retains other traces of ocher in its front part. The…
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The figurine is a small anthropomorphic head in uniformly fired figulina clay, of particular artistic finesse, so much so that it has been defined by Rodolfo Striccoli, archaeologist who supervised the excavations at the site, "... the most beautiful example of anthropomorphic plastic discovered from the Neolithic period so far in Italy …”. In the part…
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Monte Pellegrino is a massif made up of mainly calcareous carbonate rocks, subject to karst phenomena: in fact, it has more than a hundred caves and ravines, to which are added the cavities formed by the waters which, instead of flowing on the surface, filter between the rocks and then reappear…
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This is a small anthropomorphic statuette in coarse clay, depicting a female character in an upright position with her arms outstretched, one of which has a mutilated hand and remains only up to the elbow, where there is a hole probably because the missing hand. The fingers of…
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The hypogeum of Cuccuru Is Arrius (or Cuccuru S'Arriu/Arrius, the wording changes according to the scholars) is one of the most important funerary sites in Sardinia, where for the first time the space of the living is clearly differentiated from that of the dead (C. Lugliè, 2017). Furthermore, the hypogeum is distinguished by materials,…
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