Il paesaggio e i gesti del sacro: i casi di Pontecagnano e Monte Vetrano (Salerno)

Pontecagnano and the site of Monte Vetrano in the Agro Picentino provide some interesting cases for reconstructing cult practices and ritual actions integrated into the frame of the landscape: the paper reports the results of the excavations carried out in the two settlements for the construction of the third lane of the highway Salerno-Reggio Calabria and the WTE plant of Salerno

Una festa etrusca per Dioniso?

The paper aims to analyze the figurative program of an Etruscan black-figure amphora in Dresden, decorated on one side with a scene of sacrifice in the presence of a satyr, and on the other, with the representation of an armed dance. The assumption is that the amphora is the product of a special commission to celebrate a successful performance as a small triumph, using the mythical paradigm of the Gigantomachy of Heracles as a model

Pair Production of small Black Holes in Heterotic String Theories

We study pair production of small BPS BH's in heterotic strings compactified on tori and in the FHSV model. After recalling the identification of small BH's in the perturbative BPS spectrum, we compute the tree-level amplitudes for processes initiated by massless vector bosons or gravitons. We then analyze the resulting cross sections in terms of energy and angular distributions. Finally, we briefly comment on scenari with large extra dimensions and on generalizations of our results to non-BPS, non-extremal and rotating BH's.Comment: 33 page

Cambiamenti ambientali indotti dalle variazioni climatiche oloceniche e dall’uomo nell’area dell’abitato antico di Pontecagnano

L’abitato antico di Pontecagnano (vii-iii a.C.), sorge su un alto morfologico di natura travertinosa, che in antico emergeva di pochi metri dal settore NO della pianura alluvionale costiera del Fiume Sele. I lavori per l’ampliamento dell’autostrada A3 SA-RC hanno intercettato livelli archeologici rappresentativi di ampie porzioni del territorio urbano e periurbano dell’abitato antico e messo in evidenza un record archeostratigrafico che va dal Pleistocene Superiore ad oggi. Lo studio geomorfologico ed archeo-tephro-stratigrafico di dettaglio, corredato da analisi paleoambientali, ha consentito di delineare gli aspetti salienti dell’evoluzione del paesaggio e degli ambienti nel corso dell’Olocene. Le modifiche dell’ambiente e del paesaggio sono state prevalentemente indotte da condizionamenti antropici sul sistema idraulico e forestale e sull’organizzazione del territorio soprattutto per il periodo di vita dell’abitato, dove si coglie un importante bonifica. Nei periodi precedenti e successivi alla vita dell’abitato i cambiamenti ambientali sono stati indotti da variazioni climatiche e dai prodotti delle eruzioni dei vulcani napoletani.The ancient settlement of Pontecagnano (7th-3rd centuries B.C.) was built up on the travertine plateau overlooking the Sele river on the NW sector of the alluvial-coastal plain. Motorway construction works brought to light archaeological remains of an ancient urban and suburban settlement. Archaeostratigraphical records dated between the late Pleistocene and today have been elucidated. The geomorphological and archaeo-tephro-stratigraphical study, coupled with palaeoenvironmental analysis, allowed us to outline the evolution of the environment during the Holocene. The environmental changes have been mainly induced by human activities, during the 7th -3rd centuries B.C., by land reclamation. During other periods of the Holocene the environmental changes can be attributed to climatic variations and, secondly, to the impact of the distal products of Neapolitan volcanic eruptions on geomorphic systems

Contacts et acculturations en Méditerranée occidentale

La question des contacts entre les différents peuples qui bordent les rives de la Méditerranée nord occidentale est l’un des sujets phares de la recherche archéologique de ces trente dernières années. Que l’on parle d’époque archaïque et classique ou de Protohistoire et d’âge du Fer, les échanges et les processus d’acculturation de ces peuples qui entrèrent alors en contact les uns avec les autres : Grecs, Celtes, Phéniciens, Ibères, Ligures, Étrusques, ont retenu l’attention des chercheurs travaillant sur l’expansion grecque dans ces régions, sur les trafics commerciaux, sur les échanges culturels. L’œuvre de Michel Bats (Directeur de recherche honoraire du CNRS) traverse toutes ces thématiques : la présence des Phocéens et des Étrusques dans le bassin occidental de la Méditerranée, l’acculturation et les identités ethno-culturelles, les recherches sur la céramique et ses usages dans une perspective anthropologique, l’appropriation de l’écriture par les sociétés protohistoriques. Ses collègues et amis, en organisant ce colloque et en participant à ces actes, entendent lui témoigner leur amitié et leur dette intellectuelle. Ce volume réunit des articles des meilleurs spécialistes, actuels de la question - des chercheurs de toute la Méditerranée - autour des quatre grands thèmes que nous venons d’évoquer afin tout à la fois de dresser un bilan et de définir de nouvelles perspectives. Cet ouvrage présente donc aussi bien des synthèses - sur la présence grecque en Espagne, sur l’origine de l’écriture, sur les pratiques funéraires, sur les identités culturelles et ethniques - que des découvertes récentes concernant la thématique des contacts et de l’acculturation en Méditerranée nord occidentale : l’agglomération du Premier âge du Fer de La Cougourlude (Lattes, Hérault) fouillée durant l’été 2010 ; le sanctuaire hellénistique de Cumes et les fouilles récentes de Fratte en Italie ; les ateliers de potiers de Rosas en Espagne ; les dernières découvertes d’Olbia de Provence

Recensione di Arianna Esposito - J. Zurbach (éds.), Les Céramiques communes. Techniques et cultures en contact, Travaux de la Maison Archéologie § Ethnologie, Renè-Ginouvés 21, Paris, Editions de Boccard, 2015.

Il contributo costituisce la recensione a un volume dedicato allo studio della ceramica comune attraverso un approccio di tipo antropologico e funzionale, come sistema culturale per ricostruire tecniche culinarie, pratiche alimentari e, al tempo stesso, in quanto indicatore delle relazioni tra gruppi

Aristonothos a Cerveteri, tra Odisseo, Agrio e Latino

The study proposes a further reflection on the famous verses of the Hesiod’s Theogony dedicated to Agrius and Latinus (Hes. Th., 1011-16): the basic assumption is that the reference of the sons of Odysseus and Circe is structured in relation to the episode of Polyphemus (Od. 9), used as a negative paradigm for denoting the inverse image of the two kings of Tyrsenoi. According to this hypothesis, the passage of the Theogony may be considered as a true founding myth of syngeneia between Greeks and Etruscans: it explains the early reception of the theme of Odysseus and Polyphemus in prestigious Etruscan vases of the seventh century. B.C. as, e. g., the well-known crater of Aristonothos