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Norme per il recupero di resti umani nello scavo archeologico in funzione dell'analisi del DNA
No full textWe give archaeologists informations and suggestions on the issues to consider when saving samples for ancient DNA analyses
Lo scavo del Riparo del Biserno (San Vincenzo, Livorno).
No full textNell'ottobre 1988 è stato effelluato uno scavo di emergenza nel deposito archeologico del Riparo Bisemo, ubicato in località San Carlo, frazione del Comune di San Vincenzo (LI); il
modesto riparo stava infatti per essere distrutto dall'attività estrattiva di una cava di calcare. La cavità, la cui stratigrafia risultava sconvolta, era stata adibita ad usifunerari in due distinti
periodi: probabilmente nell'Eneolitico e, sicuramente, nell'età del Ferro. Sarebbero riferibili alle deposizioni più antiche alcuni resti umani fossilizzati e scarsi resti ossei di UI1 individuo eremato,
oltread una lametta di ossidiana e, presumibilmente, a due vaghi ricavati dalla conchiglia di un mollusco. Risalgono invece ad epoca più recente i resti di almeno quattro inumati, uno dei quali di sesso femminile; gli scarsi elementi di corredo recuperati comprendono infarti, fra l'altro, un ago per cucire, frammenti di una spiralina [ermatrecce ed una fibula ad arco lievemente ingrossato nella parte mediana. Tali reperti sono databili fra la fine del IX secolo a.c.
e gli inizi dell'VIII.
L'inumazione di salme in anfratti naturali è una pratica funeraria assai rara in epoca villanoviana. L'unico confronto istituibile con il ritrovamento delRiparo Biserno è costituito infatti dalla scoperta di un gruppo di inumati all'interno di una grotta del Monte Calamita (isola d'Elba). È particolarmente interessante sottolineare la circostanza che entrambi i rinvenimenti sono stati effettuati nell'ambito di due importanti distretti minerari limitrofi, quali le colline del Campigliese edi giacimenti elbani; l'esame del materiale archeologico associato alle deposizioni fa inoltrepropendere per una sostanziale contemporaneità nell'adozione di tale rito, sia nel Riparo
Bisemo che sul Monte Calamita
Proposte metodologiche per il recupero del materiale antropologico nello scavo e la sua conservazione nella prospettiva di un’analisi del DNA
No full textThe paper describes methods suggested for conservation and preservation of aDNA retrieved from archaeological excavations
Congenital spinal malformations: issues of anthropological ancient samples [Le malformazioni congenite della colonna vertebrale in soggetti infantili: problematiche interpretative su reperti archeoantropologici.]
No full textThis work is part of a more extensive, still ongoing, research which aims to provide a morphological assessment and interpretation of congenital malformations on ancient bones. The study of the frequency and distribution of congenital malformations on juvenile osteological remains may provide interesting insight and critical observations in assessing the role of those factors that are responsible for child's mortality. In the present study we describe and discuss two cases of congenital spinal malformation refer to failure in the separation of vertebral arch elements between contiguous vertebrae. The skeletons belonging to two children who died in early childhood, between 0 and 6 years of age. The research was conducted on 132 juvenile individuals came from nine necropolises located in north an middle Italy, from ancient and late Roman times to late medieval times
Attributing a Paleoanthropological specimen to a prehistoric population: Bayesian approach with multivariate B-spline functions.
No full textHuman bones were recovered in 1997 near Serra San Quirico in Ancona province (Marche, Central Italy) during archaeological excavations carried out by the Soprintendenza ai Beni Archeologici delle Marche. The site is located in a cave, 20 metres above the plane of the road, on the wall of a fluvial gorge called “Gola della Rossa”. The remains consist of a cranial vault and a few non-articulated postcranial bones, possibly belonging to the same individual. The sex diagnosis was made on the basis of morphological features of the preserved anatomical parts. According to some of these qualitative features (e.g. supraorbital region development, receding frontal profile, rounded upper orbital margin, vault thickness), the cranial vault seems to belong to a male individual; other features (e.g. frontal eminences), instead, are more typical of a female.With these data, the likelihoods were elicited by means of the Bayesian B-spline model
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
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
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