by Arianna Carta That Marija Gimbutas was a genius and that she revolutionized Neolithic archeology is a fact that is clearly evident from her university career, publications and direction of international excavations at a time when women archaeologists had to stay locked up in their rooms. Little known…
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by Alessandra de Nardis André Leroi-Gourhan (1911-1986), considered one of the world's greatest specialists in prehistory, hypothesized that animals were part of a symbolic system of the living world maintained with small variations throughout the duration of Paleolithic art. This symbolic system implied a distribution of animal species in two…
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by Luciana Percovich The New Yorker of December 14, 2020, in the Annals of Science column, publishes an article that attempts a synthesis of the results of population genetic studies within a project to map the human species, its movements and interbreeding over the course of of millennia. Douglas' article…
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by Maria Laura Leone Writing about Grotta dei Cervi in Porto Badisco in Salento is stimulating and arduous. The artistic complexity and the anthropological phenomenon that characterize it involve science, philosophy and neurology at the same time. It is a singular place and dealing with it, as with my excursus linked to it,…
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by Alessandra de Nardis Prehistory is certainly an inexhaustible place of questions that are unlikely to ever find answers. When we try to reconstruct our origins, intuition remains perhaps the only useful faculty since it draws on the deepest and most recondite ancestral memories. Despite the scarcity of artifacts created by our…
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by Kristina Berggren In 1934, it fell to a farmer working on his land just outside the town of Capestrano to find a large statue. The front was badly worn, but the back was in perfect condition. It was broken below the knees but the base with the legs…
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by Alessandra de Nardis Some time ago an article by Dr. Izzy Wisher, researcher at the Archeology department of Durham University in the United Kingdom, appeared on the web dissemination channels. The article deals with an interesting find that occurred in Saint-Germain-La-Rivière in southwestern France where a burial was found…
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by Barbara Lucrezia Paganelli Taken from Marija Gimbutas – Twenty years of study on the Goddess – Proceedings of the Conference of the same name – Rome 9-10 May 2014 – Laima Editorial Project – Turin During the XNUMXrd millennium PEC spread across Europe, moving from the east, a group of new cultures (of ceramics…
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