Grotta Romanelli (Southern Italy, Apulia): legacies and issues in excavating a key site for the Pleistocene of the Mediterranean

Grotta Romanelli, located on the adriatic coast of southern apulia (Italy), is considered a key site for the Mediterranean Pleistocene for its archaeological and palaeontological contents. The research team had to deal with the consequences of more than 40 years of inactivity in the eld and the combined effect of erosion and legal, as well as illegal, excavations. In this paper, we provide a database of all the information published during the rst 70 years of excavations and highlight the outstanding problems and contradictions between the chronological and geomorphological evidence, the features of the faunal assemblages and the limestone artefacts

Coronary Angiography After Transcatheter Aortic Valve Replacement (TAVR) to Evaluate the Risk of Coronary Access Impairment After TAVR‐in‐TAVR

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Archeofest 2016: among Experimental Archaeology, Ethnography and Scientific Disclosure

The Archeofest is an experimental archaeological festival designed by Paleoes - eXperimentalTech ArcheoDrome (EXTAD), a cultural association comprising of experimental archaeologists, anthropologists, experts of ancient technologies and their re-enactments, whose focus on making the archaeological knowledge more comprehensive to the public

Grotta Romanelli torna a raccontare l'antica storia del Salento

Dopo 40 anni riprendono gli scavi a uno dei siti più prestigiosi per la preistoria italiana, con un team multidisciplinare e all’insegna delle Nuove Tecnologie

Masseria Graziani-Sogiro (Cerignola, FG)

Nell'ambito del progetto Pecus (Pescasseroli Candela Upland Survey), sono state condotte indagini presso il sito neolitico di Masseria Sogiro-Graziani, presso Stornara (Cerignola, FG). Da preliminari analisi foto interpretative, effettuate su basemap relative a ortofoto fornite dal SIT della Regione Puglia e da fotogrammi della CGR e dell\u2019IGM, sembrano delinearsi alcune strutture, interpretabili quali possibili fossati. Durante la recente campagna di ricerche, si \ue8 avuto modo di effettuare un\u2019analisi preliminare del materiale archeologico che, raccolto nei primi anni del '900 dalla proprietaria della Masseria, nonch\ue9 archeologa, ed accuratamente conservato, comprende principalmente reperti ceramici e litici inquadrabili nelle fasi antica e media del Neolitico, sebbene non manchino manufatti riferibili a periodi successivi

Grotta Romanelli (Southern Italy, Apulia): legacies and issues in excavating a key site for the Pleistocene of the Mediterranean

Grotta Romanelli, located on the adriatic coast of southern apulia (Italy), is considered a key site for the Mediterranean Pleistocene for its archaeological and palaeontological contents. The research team had to deal with the consequences of more than 40 years of inactivity in the eld and the combined effect of erosion and legal, as well as illegal, excavations. In this paper, we provide a database of all the information published during the rst 70 years of excavations and highlight the outstanding problems and contradictions between the chronological and geomorphological evidence, the features of the faunal assemblages and the limestone artefacts

Arslantepe (Eastern Anatolia) : procurement of obsidian from Anatolian geological sources during the Chalcolithic and Middle Bronze Age

International audienceArslantepe is a höyük (i.e. tell), located within the fertile Malatya Plain, some 12 km from the right bank of the Euphrates River. The long sequence of the site covers several millennia, from at least the 6thmillennium B.C. until the final destruction of the Neo-Hittite town. The archaeological site benefits of a more than fifty years of excavations by the Italian Archaeological Mission (La Sapienza University, Rome). Its long history reflects the changing relations and connections with various civilizations in the Near East (Frangipane 2011). During the earliest phases (Chalcolithic), Arslantepe is connected with the Syro-Mesopotamian world. However, during the Early Bronze Age Arslantepe‘s external relations are reoriented towards eastern Anatolia and Transcaucasia. During these periods, Arslantepe also had connections with Central Anatolia that grow during the 2ndmillennium B.C. with the rising Hittite civilization.This talk focuses on the sourcing of obsidian artifacts collected in Arslantepe. Four hundred artifacts, belonging to eight archaeological levels, from Late Chalcolithic to Middle Bronze Age, were analyzed. These analyzes include technological and typological study together with geochemistry using a portable XRF analyzer. The geochemical data have then been compared with the GeObs database which includes more than 600 geological samples, precisely positioned within space (latitude and longitude) and time (according to volcanic and stratigraphic settings).This database includes 14 sources (i.e. volcanoes) and 34 sub-sources (outcrops with specific volcanic settings) from the Anatolian volcanoes. This talk has three main scopes: 1) studying how the procurement of obsidian change according to the technological and typological kinds of artifacts; 2) understanding the changing external relations through time on obsidian procurement, using the very clear archaeological stratigraphy revealed at the Arslantepe; and 3) showing whether the obsidian procurement indicates same spatial and social connections than other artifacts; and presenting when the obsidian procurement show some different patterns

Arslantepe (Eastern Anatolia) : procurement of obsidian from Anatolian geological sources during the Chalcolithic and Middle Bronze Age

International audienceArslantepe is a höyük (i.e. tell), located within the fertile Malatya Plain, some 12 km from the right bank of the Euphrates River. The long sequence of the site covers several millennia, from at least the 6thmillennium B.C. until the final destruction of the Neo-Hittite town. The archaeological site benefits of a more than fifty years of excavations by the Italian Archaeological Mission (La Sapienza University, Rome). Its long history reflects the changing relations and connections with various civilizations in the Near East (Frangipane 2011). During the earliest phases (Chalcolithic), Arslantepe is connected with the Syro-Mesopotamian world. However, during the Early Bronze Age Arslantepe‘s external relations are reoriented towards eastern Anatolia and Transcaucasia. During these periods, Arslantepe also had connections with Central Anatolia that grow during the 2ndmillennium B.C. with the rising Hittite civilization.This talk focuses on the sourcing of obsidian artifacts collected in Arslantepe. Four hundred artifacts, belonging to eight archaeological levels, from Late Chalcolithic to Middle Bronze Age, were analyzed. These analyzes include technological and typological study together with geochemistry using a portable XRF analyzer. The geochemical data have then been compared with the GeObs database which includes more than 600 geological samples, precisely positioned within space (latitude and longitude) and time (according to volcanic and stratigraphic settings).This database includes 14 sources (i.e. volcanoes) and 34 sub-sources (outcrops with specific volcanic settings) from the Anatolian volcanoes. This talk has three main scopes: 1) studying how the procurement of obsidian change according to the technological and typological kinds of artifacts; 2) understanding the changing external relations through time on obsidian procurement, using the very clear archaeological stratigraphy revealed at the Arslantepe; and 3) showing whether the obsidian procurement indicates same spatial and social connections than other artifacts; and presenting when the obsidian procurement show some different patterns

Impact of Chronic Coronary Artery Disease and Revascularization Strategy in Patients with Severe Aortic Stenosis Who Underwent Transcatheter Aortic Valve Implantation

The prognostic impact of coronary artery disease (CAD) after transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) is controversial. The aim of this study is to investigate the impact of CAD and different revascularization strategies on clinical outcomes in patients who underwent TAVI with third generation devices. Patients enrolled in the national observational Observational Study of Effectiveness of SAVR-TAVI Procedures for Severe Aortic Stenosis Treatment II study were stratified according to the presence of CAD (CAD+, n = 1,130) versus no CAD (CAD-, n = 1,505), and compared using a propensity matched analysis. CAD+ group was further stratified according to the revascularization strategy: no revascularization (n = 331), revascularization performed >90 days before index-TAVI (n = 417) and coronary revascularization performed <90 days before index-TAVI or during TAVI (n = 382). In-hospital, 30-day and 1-year clinical outcomes were estimated. The mean age of the overall population was 81.8 years; 54.9% of patients were female. Propensity score matching yielded 813 pairs and their 30-day all-cause mortality was comparable (p = 0.480). Major periprocedural adverse events were also similar between the groups. At 1-year follow-up, the rate of major adverse cardiac and cerebrovascular events (MAC-CEs) and all-cause mortality were similar between the groups (p = 0.732 and p = 0.633, respectively). Conversely, patients with CAD experienced more often myocardial infarc-tion and need for percutaneous coronary intervention at 1 year (p = 0.007 and p = 0.001, respectively). Neither CAD nor revascularization strategy were independent predictors of 1-year MACCE. About 40% of patients presenting with severe AS and who underwent TAVI had concomitant CAD. The presence of CAD had no impact on all-cause mortality and MACCE 1-year after TAVR. However, CAD carries a higher risk for acute myocar-dial infarction and need of percutaneous coronary intervention during follow-up. (c) 2023 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. (Am J Cardiol 2023;206:14-22

Functional and metabolic frailty predicts mortality in patients undergoing TAVI: Insights from the OBSERVANT II study

Despite the prognostic role of frailty among elderly patients undergoing transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) is known, its assessment still represents a challenge due to the multitude of scales proposed in literature. The aim of this study was to define the prognostic impact of a simple combined frailty model including both functional and metabolic parameters in a large cohort of patients undergoing TAVI with new generation devices