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by Francesca Principi The large knotted rings are one of the most characteristic symbols of the Piceno culture even though they remain, to this day, finds whose true meaning remains mostly obscure. To understand the cultural context in which these objects were created, it is of fundamental importance to make a premise on identity…

Autochthonous civilizations lit up along the coasts of the Danube, with strong signals of equal and community culture. A tribute to Marija Gimbutas, visionary archaeologist. by Harald Haarmann and Mariagrazia Pelaia Discovering Ancient Europe. In the preface to her fundamental work entitled The Civilization of the Goddess (1991; transl. It .: La civilization…

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 Valentina Mauriello Castelvetro is a small town located on the first hills of the Modenese Apennines, straddling the Guerro stream, a tributary of the Panaro river, famous for the beauty of the historic village and for the food and wine offer of typical Emilian products, among which Lambrusco stands out and Balsamic Vinegar. The surrounding grounds are teeming with…

by Barbara Crescimanno At the Salinas Archaeological Museum in Palermo are preserved two "lozenge" idols in dark clay, about 10 cm high, dating back to the Middle Eneolithic (mid-XNUMXrd millennium BC) and found in a tomb found in front of the Park gate of the Regia Favorita, in Piazza Leoni, in the plain that…

by Antonella della Morte (Alma) and Alfredo Finotto (Frædior)Taken from Sarah Perini (edited by) – Riflessi della Dea – La Cicala – Oneiros – 2022 There is a place in the middle of Italy, under high mountains, noble and celebrated for fame in many districts, the Valli d'Ansanto: dark with dense fronds…

by Alessandra Fumai Describing a culture starting from the body, starting from the way in which the bodies cadence the ritual and daily space, can provide a non-naive reading of social organizations different from ours. When it comes to matriarchy and matriarchal culture we must, in my opinion, maintain a…

by Alessandra De Nardis An article by the French journalist Manon Meyer appeared on National Geographic on January 3, 2023 entitled: "Why did prehistoric men and women paint in caves?"; the text is an interview with Jean-Loïc Le Quellec, prehistoric archaeologist, anthropologist and director emeritus of research at the CNRS who of…