by Luciana Percovich and Aldina De Stefano The Natisone valleys are located in the easternmost part of Friuli-Venezia Giulia. They are formed by the valley of the Natisone river and by those crossed by its tributaries, the Alberone, the Cosizza and the Erbezzo, following a fan system, which converges towards the south. The mountain…
See moreby Giulia Goggi Fossa is a site in the province of L'Aquila, generally referring to the Sabellic population of the Vestini, whose first evidence dates back to the mid-XNUMXrd century BC. C. thanks to a coin legend in which VES appears in a series of aes graves also adopted in other…
See moreby Grazia Dentoni This is the story of a journey through space and time, it is the story of ten years of theatrical research that began when I became a mother, and I studied as a perinatal educator, a female figure who supports pregnant women, in I leave and after…
See moreby Alessandra de Nardis The discovery in Arma Veirana of AVH-1, a newborn renamed Neve by archaeologists, took place inside a long-studied cave in the Ligurian Pre-Alps in the province of Savona; the analyzes of amelogenin, a protein present in tooth buds and the results of which have recently been…
See moreby Elvira Visciola What kind of cult of the dead did the Neolithic populations of Grotta Scaloria practice? A study published in 2015 in the journal Antiquity has highlighted probable ancient funeral rites in use over 7000 years ago among the populations who inhabited the south-east of our peninsula, rituals…
See moreby Maria Laura Leone For various ancient and traditional societies, the female theme was the main theme in art and craftsmanship. It also occurred in the most ancient Daunia with the stele-statues, I have already dealt with this in a previous article written in English[1], of which the present is a partial review. The analysis…
See moreby Oretta Di Carlo, Enrica Tedeschi, Susanna Magnelli, Donatella Livigni and Tatiana Melaragni The cult of the goddess Feronia is known to us thanks to the numerous news that the authors of Latin and Greek literature have left us, to the numerous epigraphs of the classical era and also to a coin, which reproduces the…
See moreby Arianna Carta Sardinia is an open-air temple dotted with sacred manifestations or, to quote Eliade, hierophanies: nuraghes, domus de janas, giants' tombs, menhirs and sacred wells that blend with zoo and anthropomorphic rocks (valley of the moon , elephant rock, bear rock etc.) caves, earth,…
See moreby Ernestina Cinosi "An exceptional example of an old Italian toponym that has remained intact to this day, a miraculous survival transmitted through twenty-five centuries (...), has been ascertained at the foot of the Majella." An old toponym that recurs in the myth, in the sacred law of the Marrucino people, in the name of the archaeological site…
See moreby Giusi Di Crescenzo It all started with the passion that the doctor of Corropoli, Concezio Rosa, put into looking for, in the area where he lived and worked, some more news on what the farmers of the area were finding while they were hoeing the fields: mostly more worked stones called “lightning…
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