The statuette is a small anthropomorphic figure, obtained from a splinter of animal bone, yellowish in color with some red spots, probably due to the lying soil. It has a vertical development ending in the lower part with a point, while in the upper part the head is triangular in shape with two furrows…
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The idol of Arnesano is part of the funerary equipment of the burial found in a cave tomb located about 50 centimeters deep from the ground level, equipped with an access shaft of about 1 meter in diameter and a small vaulted chamber ( of maximum height 1.10…
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In the list of various terracotta objects found in the Village of Ripoli, Giuliano Cremonesi defines the clay statuettes as "Probable idols". “The clay figurines are all of figulina clay and very fragmented. Among the most interesting is the one found in hut 8 and is a large, slightly flattened cylinder covered with…
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It is one of three finds recovered in the Colli Albani area, a mountainous relief of volcanic origin located southeast of the capital; fortuitously found en plein air on woodland and referable to the Upper Paleolithic (10,000-40,000 BC) the three artefacts that can be considered elements of movable art are: the female figure…
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Cozzo Busonè (see photo 1) is a hill on the border between the municipality of Raffadali and Agrigento. Here a necropolis was found with many oven tombs and two large chamber tombs, inside which stone and ceramic artefacts were found. They were also found…
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The settlement of Via Guidorossi (Parma) is a site of notable interest which has a rather long chronological span of life, from prehistory to Roman times: here we will refer to the most ancient phase, which covers a good part of the Middle Neolithic (I and II phase of the culture of Square Mouth Vessels), looking…
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The site of Camaro S. Anna (ME), located on a terrace overlooking the upper course of the wide Camaro-Zaera river valley, was explored in the 1991s in two different excavation campaigns (1996; 1997-XNUMX). We are located on the first foothills of the Peloritani Mountains, south-west of Messina. Excavations have revealed…
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The anthropomorphic statuette, in steatite, has an elongated cylindrical shape and, albeit in its originality, has some characteristics that refer to the world of the Venuses, such as the representation of the breasts and slightly protruding belly, but without the typical exuberance that usually distinguishes. In the head, oval in shape, the…
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Within the representations of the Mother Goddess belonging to the culture of Ozieri (or San Michele) [1], there is the Mother Goddess of Porto Ferro. It is the representation of a naked and erect female figure with a circular head and face slightly angled upwards, a long and thin neck,…
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It is probably the oldest anthropomorphic representation found in Sardinia, even if its dating is uncertain. The uncertainty is also due to the uniqueness of the figurine which cannot be associated with other finds. It is a statuette made on a pebble of lava rock (basalt or andesite) in an unfinished style, steatopygia,…
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