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…

by Elvira Visciola under the supervision of Elisa Bianchi, Conservator of the Archaeological Museum of Finale The Caverna delle Arene Candide is of fundamental importance at an international level as it provides a sequence of about 10 meters of sediments with traces of human attendance between the Upper Paleolithic (about 32.000 BC)…

by Giusi Di Crescenzo The beginning of the Neolithic in the middle Adriatic area coincides with the most evolved phase of the Early Neolithic in southern Italy. “… The so-called “Neolithic package”, which arrives in southern Italy around 8000 years from today, seems to manifest itself with a slight chronological gap in the middle-Adriatic area, constantly placing itself between 5800…

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 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 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 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…