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

Inorganic Raw Materials Economy and Provenance of Chipped Industry in Some Stone Age Sites of Northern and Central Italy

An opportunistic and local choice of raw materials is typically attested in the Lower and Middle Paleolithic industries throughout Italy. The quality of the raw material usually affected the flaking technology and quality of the products. In the Upper Paleolithic and the Mesolithic, raw material procurement strategies were more complex. Flint was exploited both locally, in areas where abundant outcrops of raw materials were available (such as the Lessini mountains), and in distant localities, after which it was transported or exchanged over medium/long distances. Different routes of exchange were thus followed in the various periods; good reconstruction of these routes have been provided by a study of the Garfagnana sites in Northern Tuscany, and the Mesolithic deposit of Mondeval de Sora (Dolomites). An interesting example of a Late Upper Paleolithic flint quarry and workshop were found in Abruzzo, in the San Bartolomeo shelter. The extended trade of obsidian from Lipari, Palmarola and Sardinia to the Italian Peninsula is attested in the Neolithic, with some differences concerning the age and different areas

Observations on the problems related to certain cult phenomena during the neolitihic in the Italian Peninsula

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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