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L'orizzonte culturale del III millennio a. C.: il tumulo 7 di Salve (Lecce)
No full textIl tumulo 7 di Salve ha pochi confronti nell’eneolitico italiano per quanto riguarda architettura e ritualità. I materiali, invece, sono di facies Laterza e Gaudo, i primi con precisi rimandi a Grotta Cappuccini di Galatone, i secondi al sito campano di Taurasi.
Uno sguardo al III millennio europeo consente di inserire i tumuli di Salve in un fenomeno più vasto che coinvolge l’intera Europa attraverso processi di interazione tra culture diverse e geograficamente lontane, dalla Yamnaya al Campaniforme fino all’Antico Elladico
Sepolture bisome dalle necropoli della colonia greca di Himera: interpretazione e analisi demografica
No full textDouble burials, ie simultaneous depositions of two individuals, are rare occurrence in ancient Greece, so their
discovery is always received with great interest.
In the necropolises of Himera, only 15 double burials were discovered, out of over 13000 excavated tombs. With the
exception of these and the mass graves relating to the battles of 480 and 409 BC, the necropolises of Himera are
characterized by single burials.
The taphonomic analyses, aimed at demonstrating the simultaneity of double burials, and the anthropological analyses
to determine sex and age at death, show a skeletal sample that is decidedly heterogeneous by type of tomb, sex and age.
Given the variety of the composition of the double burials it seems that there is no rule except simultaneous death and
probably a bond between the people buried together
Partial cranial trephination by means of Hippocrates’ τρύπανον (trypanon) on a 5th century BC skeleton from the western necropolis of the Greek colony of Himera (Sicily, Italy).
No full textThe paper deals with a new case of partial cranial trephination found in one of the necropolises of the Greek
colony of Himera in Sicily. It is one of the very few cases of cranial trephination of Greek classical age.
Macroscopic as well as radiological investigations prove that the operation was perimortal as no growth of new
bone could be detected, SEM-EDS microanalysis of the piece revealed the traces left by the tool used during
trephination. The review of ancient Greek and Latin medical and surgical texts permitted us to establish that
the tool used in Himera was a trypanon mentioned by Hippocrates and named terebra by Latin author
Age estimation in a sample of adult Neolithic skeletons from Italy by tooth/pulp ratio in canines by x-rays.
No full textDeterminazione radiologica per mezzo delle radici dentali (rapporto area/polpa) in un campione di individui neolitici dall'Italia meridionale
An unexpected demographic regime: The western necropolis of the Greek colony of Himera (Sicily, Italy) (550-409 BCE)
No full textWe present the results of a paleodemographic assessment of 2865 graves excavated in the western necropolis of the ancient Greek colony of Himera in Sicily. Himera provides an outstanding opportunity to understand the demographic dynamics of Ancient Sicily as it was abandoned and never repopulated, thus offering a completely intact record. Not only has a remarkably large sample been collected and is currently under study, but historical
sources allow to precisely date the years in which the city’s necropolises were used. Children under the age of 5 were typically buried in pots, meaning that the number of children who died at ages 0 and 1–4 can be reliably estimated. Such data on child death is very rare in paleodemographic studies. Thanks to these exceptional characteristics, together with the application of demographic methods already employed in previous studies (Barbiera et al., 2021) and a comparison of our results with other contemporary Greek necropolises, we can discern a plausible mortality regime for Himera. Our analyses reveal that in the western necropolis of Himera (mid-6th to late 5th century BC) the mortality of children and young people was relatively low, and likely compensated by a more pronounced mortality of adults. Life expectancy at birth was plausibly between 25 and 30 years of age. These fndings are further supported by data from the Greek cities of Metaponto and Akraiphia, as well as preliminary results for the eastern necropolis of Himera (late-7th to late 6th century BC)
Partial cranial trephination by means of Hippocrates' trypanon from 5th century BC Himera (Sicily, Italy)
No full textThe paper deals with a new case of partial cranial trephination found in one of the necropolises of the Greek colony of Himera in Sicily. It is one of the very few cases of cranial trephination of Greek classical age. Macroscopic as well as radiological investigations prove that the operation was perimortal as no growth of new bone could be detected, SEM-EDS microanalysis of the piece revealed the traces left by the tool used during trephination. The review of ancient Greek and Latin medical and surgical texts permitted us to establish that the tool used in Himera was a (trypanon) mentioned by Hippocrates and named terebra by Latin authors. Copyright (c) 2010 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
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