Category archives: burials

by Giulia Goggi The condition of Etruscan women seems to have been freer than that of contemporary women. It has been hypothesized that they knew how to write and read and the inscriptions on some mirrors could be related to this, explaining the scenes represented. In the Etruscan inscriptions the…

by Elvira Visciola Marija Gimbutas spoke of ancient Europe for the Neolithic, including a vast territory in which populations moved bringing with them their own customs and traditions which they transferred to the populations they met. In reality, although the traces are more fleeting and distant even by several thousand…

by 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…

by 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…

by Elvira Visciola The complex of Balzi Rossi or Grimaldi, so called from the nearby village, has been the subject of numerous archaeological investigations since the mid-800th century which have brought to light paleontological and archaeological finds and evidence belonging to the various phases of the Paleolithic. The complex is located in the…

by Antonella Traverso Research The Balzi Rossi caves, originally 11 in number, were already known in the 1700s, but the first to conduct scientific investigations there was Prince Florestano I of Monaco in 1846. However, the first to describe the complex stratigraphy of some of the caves…

by Laura Violet Rimola In the Civic Archaeological Museum of Sesto Calende, right in the center of the main hall, a rich funerary equipment dating back to the 1977th century BC is exhibited, occasionally discovered in March XNUMX in the Mulini Bellaria area in Sesto Calende, a few steps from the banks of the Ticino. The Ticino River…

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…

by Maria Laura Leone In dealing with funerary spirituality, we touch upon the concept of the afterlife, the most distant world that man has ever attempted to ideally elaborate and explore. Thus, in the different approaches to death, we constantly encounter the concern for existence, the desire for permanence, continuity, the preservation of the body…

by Anna Polo 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 The object of study consists of the spirals that decorate the closing doors of some cave tombs of the civilization of…