Province of Rome Archives - Prehistory in Italy

Female pebble from Monte Compatri and other finds – Monte Compatri (RM)

The card was edited by Alessandra de Nardis

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…

Address Monte Compatri, RM, Italy

Lucus Feroniae – Capena (RM)

The card was edited by Oretta Di Carlo, Enrica Tedeschi, Susanna Magnelli, Donatella Livigni and Tatiana Melaragni

Lucus Feroniae is the most important site among the many in which the cult of Feronia was practised, and has many characteristics of the cult of the goddess, such as the presence (in ancient times) of the sacred wood and that of the Tiber river, and having been meeting point between populations of different ethnic groups,…

Address Lucus Feroniae

Statue of Bracciano (RM)

The card was edited by Elvira Visciola

It is a female statuette discovered in 2000 in a Neolithic village called "La Marmotta" in Anguillara Sabazia, dated to the 360th millennium BC, a site currently submerged by the waters of Lake Bracciano, about 10 meters from the shore and about XNUMX meters deep from the water level. There…

Address Marmot village