Tomba celtica della fase di romanizzazione dalla località Casona di Nogara (Verona)

The present paper focuses on a Celtic grave from the Romanization phase in Casona di Nogara (Verona). The grave, partially damaged by agricultural works, represents an important funerary documentation in the Verona plain and is thought to belong to the Cenomani culture. The funeral rite is cremation. Among the gravegoods, there remain the weapons, personal tools and elements from the funeral banquet and symposium. The grave is to be dated to the end of the second century BC and the beginning of the first century BC (LT D1)

Flows of people in villages and large centres in Bronze Age Italy through strontium and oxygen isotopes

This study investigates to what extent Bronze Age societies in Northern Italy were permeable accepting and integrating non-local individuals, as well as importing a wide range of raw materials, commodities, and ideas from networks spanning continental Europe and the Mediterranean. During the second millennium BC, the communities of Northern Italy engaged in a progressive stabilization of settlements, culminating in the large polities of the end of the Middle/beginning of the Late Bronze Age pivoted around large defended centres (the Terramare). Although a wide range of exotic archaeological materials indicates that the inhabitants of the Po plain increasingly took part in the networks of Continental European and the Eastern Mediterranean, we should not overlook the fact that the dynamics of interaction were also extremely active on local and regional levels. Mobility patterns have been explored for three key-sites, spanning the Early to Late Bronze Age (1900–1100 BC), namely Sant’Eurosia, Casinalbo and Fondo Paviani, through strontium and oxygen isotope analysis on a large sample size (more than 100 individuals). The results, integrated with osteological and archaeological data, document for the first time in this area that movements of people occurred mostly within a territorial radius of 50 km, but also that larger nodes in the settlement system (such as Fondo Paviani) included individuals from more distant areas. This suggests that, from a demographic perspective, the process towards a more complex socio-political system in Bronze Age Northern Italy was triggered by a largely, but not completely, internal process, stemming from the dynamics of intra-polity networks and local/regional power relationships

What Is Italian Antispeciesism? An Overview of Recent Tendencies in Animal Advocacy

This chapter offers an overview of the different agents currently operating in Italy as part of the animal liberation movement. It analyses the impact on this social reality by books and essays published or translated in Italian in the last 20 years in the field of Animal Ethics. From the reception of Peter Singer and Tom Regan\u2019s ideas mediated by the work of Paola Cavalieri, Italian philosophers have shaped the narratives and the rhetoric of animal advocates and liberationists. On the other side, activists\u2019 debates on the best strategies to adopt involved intellectuals and enriched their production on Animal Liberation. Groups with an intersectional approach have paid particular attention to theoretical implications and political consequences of their acts, developing radical, non-anthropocentric forms of antispeciesism

Colonial and capitalist pedagogy

Walter Benjamin wrote about pedagogy from the start of his writing life to its close. He was also an activist in the youth movement in Germany. This essay explores the importance of childhood, play, toys and education to his wider body of work – including his interests in photography, literary form, language acquisition and use, modern art. The opening up of these areas in relation to questions of pedagogy enables the organisation of his thought in relation to two complexes: ‘colonial’ and ‘communist’ pedagogy. What these mean, what determines them and how they further Benjamin’s project of emancipation, which begins with youth, is scrutinised here

Towards a Critique of Educative Violence: Walter Benjamin and ‘Second Education’

Although modern systems of mass education are typically defined in their opposition to violence, it has been argued that it is only through an insistent and critical focus upon violence that radical thought can be sustained. This article seeks to take up this challenge in relation to Walter Benjamin’s lesser-known writings on education. Benjamin retained throughout his life a deep suspicion about academic institutions and about the pedagogic, social and economic violence implicated in the idea of cultural transmission. He nonetheless remained committed to the possibility of another kind of revolutionary potential inherent to true education and, when he comes to speak of this in his Critique of Violence, it is remarkable that he describes it as manifesting an educative violence. This article argues that Benjamin’s philosophy works toward a critique of educative violence that results in a distinction between a ‘first’ and ‘second’ kind of education and asks whether destruction might have a positive role to play within pedagogical theories in contrast to current valorisations of creativity and productivity

Variazioni Respiratorie, Cardiocircolatorie ed Ossimetriche indotte dal Flunitrazepham nell'uomo

Dopo aver ricordato i principali meccanismi d'azione delle benzodiazepine sul sistema nervoso centrale,vengono presentati i risultati osservati in trenta soggetti adulti normali dopo iniezione e.v. di 0,03mg/kg di Flunitrazepam

Dinamiche insediative nel Neolitico e nell’età del Rame dei Lessini occidentali : Riflessioni a margine della ripresa delle attività nel sito delle Colombare di Negrar di Valpolicella (Provincia di Verona)

Gli autori presentano in questo contributo un progetto di ricerca avviato nel sito preistorico delle Colombare di Negrar di Valpolicella. Esso comprende la ripresa degli scavi per la soluzione di quesiti cronologici, culturali e paleoambientali, e inoltre una valutazione del popolamento dei Lessini tra il Neolitico Antico e l’età del Rame. Il censimento dei siti noti e la loro variazione quantitativa e qualitativa nel corso del tempo permettono preliminarmente di ipotizzare la formazione di un sistema insediativo progressivamente più strutturato in senso gerarchico e funzionale che raggiunge il suo acme nell’età del Rame, soprattutto in rapporto allo sfruttamento ed esportazione della selce locale