by Daniela Degan An open window on the ancient Umbrian population, its socio-political organization, the writing and public rituals of a community religiosity. The language of the Umbrians is part of my life, because my female lineage draws its origins and its strength from the land of Gubbio: place of…

by Giusi Di Crescenzo The culture of Catignano belongs to the ancient phase of affirmation of the culture of painted ceramics: between 5400 and 4900 BC Its discovery filled a gap in the prehistory of the Abruzzo region and made it possible to reunite the advanced phase from the…

by 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…

by 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…

by Roberto Marras During the now distant academic year 1989/90 I had the pleasure of following the lessons of prof. Santo Tinè, then professor of palethnology at the University of Genoa. To his credit he already boasted considerable excavating experience in his native Sicily, under the guidance of Luigi Bernabò Brea, and…

by Elvira Visciola The Grotta di Fumane represents one of the most important archaeological archives of the Middle and Upper Paleolithic in Europe. First inhabited by Homo Neanderthalensis and later by Homo Sapiens, in a period ranging from about 90 to 25 thousand years ago, it offers important evidence of the dynamics that…

by Brunella Campea The presence of finds of Phoenician, Cypriot and Syriac origin in the Peligna Valley demonstrates that, although enclosed by high mountains, it was open to the currents of the various civilizations of the pre-Roman era (or, to quote Momolina Marconi, of that great Pelasgian or Mediterranean civilization) by direct immigration following…

Taken from Marija Gimbutas – LA CIVILTÀ DELLA DEA – Vol. 1 – Stampa Alternativa / Nuovi Equilibri – June 2012 – (pag. 176 – 185-186) The first inhabitants of the Adriatic coasts and islands lived by hunting small animals until about 7000 BC, when a transition takes place…