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

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

L’ambra dell’insediamento della tarda Età del bronzo di Campestrin di Grignano Polesine (Rovigo)

Campestrin di Grignano Polesine è attualmente il più antico sito con evidenze certe di lavorazione dell’ambra baltica in ambito mediterraneo; si trova a circa 10 km da Frattesina ed è datato XIII-XII sec.a.C. Dal 2012 è stata attivata una ricerca sull’ambra di cui si danno i risultati preliminari. Sono stati analizzati con spettroscopia all’infrarosso 20 elementi che sono risultati di succinite (la più diffusa ambra di tipo baltico). Per quanto riguarda l’analisi tecnologica-tracceologica vengono presentati i risultati preliminari delle ricostruzione della catena operativa dei vaghi tipo Tirinto. Campestrin prova che questa particolare tipologia è prodotta nel nord Italia nel corso del Bronzo recente, contemporaneamente alle più antiche attestazioni del tipo in ambito egeo e vicino orientale

L'ambra dell'insediamento della tarda Età del bronzo di Campestrin di Grignano Polesine (Rovigo).

A poca distanza da Frattesina (10 km a E) lungo il corso del cosiddetto “Po di Adria”, è stato scoperto nel 2007 l’insediamento di Campestrin di Grignano Polesine (RO), attualmente datato tra XIII e XII sec. a.C. Grazie alle prime ricerche dirette da Luciano Salzani (Sopr. BB.AA. del Veneto) e condotte con la collaborazione del Museo dei Grandi Fiumi di Rovigo (Salzani 2009: 2011), sono state individuate le tracce del più antico workshop di lavorazione dell’ambra a sud delle Alpi e, all’attuale stato delle conoscenze, dell’intera area mediterranea. Le indagini preliminari hanno messo in luce piattaforme quadrangolari in terra battuta e, prossime ad esse, tracce consistenti dell’intero ciclo di lavorazione dell’ambra. L’eccezionalità della scoperta ha imposto la creazione di un gruppo di lavoro dedicato ad una prima valutazione dei reperti e del contesto archeologico – ambientale per poter definire una specifica strategia di intervento sul campo. In questa sede si presentano i risultati preliminari di queste indagini, svolte in scansione elettronica, microraman e TGA e finalizzate al riconoscimento delle tracce di lavorazione e utilizzo

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