By Elvira Visciòla For over thirty years, Göbekli Tepe has revealed a presence as discreet as it is enigmatic: that of the dead. Not through intact tombs or necropolises, but through hundreds of human bone fragments found in the fillings of the site's monumental structures. Fragments belonging to men and women of different ages,…
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by Elvira Visciola An important study conducted by an international team led by the Universities of Florence, Bologna and Siena and published in “Nature Communications” with the title “Life history and ancestry of the late Upper Paleolithic infant from Grotta delle Mura, Italy” has reconstructed the biological history of a…
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by Alessandra de Nardis Vlakno is a small cave located in the central area of the island of Dugi otok (Long Island) in Croatia; positioned between the settlements of Luka and Savarcon, in the narrowest part of the island at a height of approx. 50 meters above sea level, it looks like a small…
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by Alessandra de Nardis The clay statuette dating back to 7000 years ago (Neolithic) was found at Poggio Nativo in Sabina, in the province of Rieti and is now the subject of a study coordinated by the Sapienza Department of Ancient Sciences. This valuable exhibit will add a lot of new information about that…
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by Alessandra de Nardis The Willendorf statuette, almost 11 cm high, is one of the most important examples of ancient art in Europe. It is made by carving a rock called "oolite" which is not found in and around Willendorf. A research team led by anthropologist Gerhard Weber of the University of Vienna,…
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by Alessandra de Nardis As part of the redevelopment project of Piazza San Giustino in the Municipality of Chieti, a very rich tomb from the Hellenistic period (XNUMXth-XNUMXrd century BC) was found, still intact, belonging to a woman who was immediately renamed Princess Marouca; the name refers to the Marrucini population, a small…
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by Alessandra de Nardis Grotta Mandrin, in France is located near the city of Malataverne in a dominant position on the eastern bank of the middle valley of the Rhone river at an altitude of 225 m. Excavations since 1990 have revealed a 3m deep stratigraphic sequence containing 12 archaeological layers ranging…
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by Alessandra de Nardis Another news that comes from Abruzzo and precisely from the Pescosansonesco area where the archaeologist Guido Palmerini discovered handprints made in red pigment dating back to the fourth-fifth millennium BC and imprinted on the rocks in a place that remains top secret for security reasons. Of the young…
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by Elvira Visciola In October 2021, the results of the investigations inside Grotta Romanelli were published in the magazine "Antiquity" (see file), with the discovery of new wall engravings, about 31 new graphic units, including the figure of a bovid , a rare depiction of boreal penguin and some…
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by Alessandra de Nardis SOURCE: La Repubblica Smaller than a coin, the idol was found in Pulo di Molfetta, where another find had come to light in October; On January 18, 2021, while doing a reconnaissance to check the state of the places, archaeologists found on the ground…
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