Eléments d'homogénéité ou de hétérogénéité au cours du Néolithique de l'Italie

On donne un cadre de l’évolution du néolithique dans les régions de la haute mer Tyrrhénienne et on essaye de montrer les différences qui se sont passées dans les rapports entre la péninsule et les territoires insulaires et occidentales au cours du néolithique

Notes on some cultic aspects of Italian prehistory:

Many cultural manifestations are known in the Neolithic and Metal Ages in Italy. They were associated with pits, dug in the floors of caverns, and stone circles where vases or votive objects were deposited. They related to agricultural rituals, but also to funerary practices associated with birth, life and death. Another type of cults relates to water and water circulation: to cold or warm springs in underground cavities or in surface; to stalactites and their white water; to geothermal phenomena that attracted the interest of people in the prehistory. Many vases and bronzes were deposited near lakes, sources, rivers and fumaroles

Contatti e scambi tra la cultura serra d'alto e i vasi a bocca quadrata: Il caso delle Ollette tipo San Martino

Il lavoro illustra la distribuzione delle cosiddette ollette San Martino in contesti funerari riconducibili alle culture che si sviluppano durante il V millennio a.C. rispettivamente a Sud e a Nord della penisola italiana. I vasi esaminati, globulari a bocca ristretta e realizzati in ceramica figulina, caratterizzano alcuni corredi funerari della fase più recente della cultura peninsulare di Serra d’Alto, talvolta con connotati di prestigio, e sono presenti anche in diverse sepolture femminili della cultura dei Vasi a Bocca Quadrata in area padana e alpina. L’esatta riproduzione formale del tipo peninsulare e la coerenza dell’uso in contesto funerario rivelano una inattesa condivisione di rituali e di valori simbolici tra due mondi geográficamente distanti

Change fast or change slow? Late Glacial and Early Holocene cultures in a changing environment at Grotta Continenza, Central Italy

This work contextualises the sequence of Grotta Continenza, a cave with a rich sequence of Late Glacial to Early Holocene archaeological levels spanning from the Late Upper Palaeolithic to the Neolithic, within the framework of southern Italy cultural adaptation to environmental change.The sequence is dated by Bayesian modelling of radiocarbon dates and event durations are computed, including hiatuses in sedimentation and gaps in culture development; these data are used in association with sedimentology and soil micromorphology to assess sedimentary models that can explain the environmental change.Techno-typological and behavioural aspects of Late Upper Palaeolithic populations are correlated with environmental change, mostly during Younger Dryas

Multipronged dental analyses reveal dietary differences in last foragers and first farmers at Grotta Continenza, central Italy (15,500–7000 BP)

This paper provides results from a suite of analyses made on human dental material from the Late Palaeolithic to Neolithic strata of the cave site of Grotta Continenza situated in the Fucino Basin of the Abruzzo region of central Italy. The available human remains from this site provide a unique possibility to study ways in which forager versus farmer lifeways affected human odonto-skeletal remains. The main aim of our study is to understand palaeodietary patterns and their changes over time as reflected in teeth. These analyses involve a review of metrics and oral pathologies, micro-fossils preserved in the mineralized dental plaque, macrowear, and buccal microwear. Our results suggest that these complementary approaches support the assumption about a critical change in dental conditions and status with the introduction of Neolithic foodstuff and habits. However, we warn that different methodologies applied here provide data at different scales of resolution for detecting such changes and a multipronged approach to the study of dental collections is needed for a more comprehensive and nuanced understanding of diachronic changes

The beginning of the Neolithic in the Po Plain (northern Italy): Problems and perspectives

The Po Valley is one of the major physiographic units of northern Italy. It can be considered as a key area for the interpretation of long-term historical events and processes because of its location midway between the Mediterranean world and continental Europe. This paper is an updated summary of our knowledge of the Early Neolithic farming communities of the region. In particular it discusses data derived from radiocarbon dated sites. Its aim is to provide the international audience with an updated view of the topic, based on the discussion of a new series of AMS radiocarbon results, to frame the earliest producing communities of the Po Valley into the more general picture of the Neolithization of Italy. To achieve the goal, apart from radiocarbon assays, we have taken into consideration material culture remains, subsistence economy, environmental resources, and data gathered from archaeometric analyses and technology

Le Néolithique ancien de Toscane et de l'Archipel toscan

The author provides a general picture of questions related to the Early Neolithic of Tuscany and the islands of its archipelago. Current data allow her to include the Early Neolithic of that region in the Cardial group, showing strong similarities with that of Corsica and Sardinia and clear differences with the other Impressed Ware groups from Southern and Central Italy. The following post-Cordial phase is characterised by pottery decorated with linear incised patterns quite close to the Fiorano group but constituting a typical aspect of the Tuscan-Latian region.L'auteur donne un aperçu général des problèmes concernant le Néolithique ancien de la Toscane et des îles de son archipel. Les données dont nous disposons actuellement permettent d'inclure le Néolithique ancien de cette région dans le groupe cardial, avec de fortes ressemblances avec celui de Corse et de Sardaigne ; il se détache ainsi des autres groupes à Céramique Imprimée d'Italie du Centre et du Sud. Au Cardial fait suite un faciès caractérisé par des céramiques à lignes incisées qui relèvent plus d'affinités avec le groupe de Fiorano, bien que constituant un aspect typique de la région to sco -latia le.Grifoni Cremonesi Renata. Le Néolithique ancien de Toscane et de l'Archipel toscan. In: Bulletin de la Société préhistorique française, tome 98, n°3, 2001. pp. 423-429

Notes on some cultic aspects of Italian Prehistory

Many cultural manifestations are known in the Neolithic and Metal Ages in Italy. They were associated with pits, dug in the floors of caverns, and stone circles where vases or votive objects were deposited. They related to agricultural rituals, but also to funerary practices associated with birth, life and death. Another type of cults relates to water and water circulation: to cold or warm springs in underground cavities or in surface; to stalactites and their white water; to geothermal phenomena that attracted the interest of people in the prehistory. Many vases and bronzes were deposited near lakes, sources, rivers and fumaroles

Témoignages de cultes dans le Néolithique ancien des Abruzzes

On décrit un groupe de quatre vases dont deux contenaient les os brûlés de deux enfants de quatre et huit ans, et qui étaient recouverts des restes carbonisés d’un adulte. Ces vases sont attribuables à la céramique « impressa ». Cette découverte nous permet de poser certains problèmes relatifs aux rites néolithiques et à leur interprétation.A group of four vases, two of them containing the remains of two buried children (one of them four years old and the other eight years old), covered by the remains of a buried adult, is described. The vases are attri-buted to the cultural current of the « impresso » pottery. The A. underlines the importance of the complexe, which is interpreted as the conséquence of ritual patterns