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Aux origines de la représentation: les statuetttes paléolithiques de l'Italie centrale et meridionale
No full textL'articolo illustra i risultati di una analisi di carattere tecnologico e stilistico condotta su due statuette muliebri in osso del Paleolitico superiore italiano
Garamantian Rock Art in the Akakus
No full textThis paper, which represents the chapter 6 of the monography edited by M.Liverani, deals with the Tadrart Akakus Garamantian rock art strictly associated to the presence of the Garamantian people in the Libyan Fezzan (c.3,500-1,800 BP). The paintings and engravings of this period , generally not so much appreciated, are attributable to the Late Pastoral, Horse/Bitriangular and Camel styles and reveal distinctive characteristics very meaningful to complete the panorama of the Garamantian symbolic world
The small finds: beads, worked bones artefacts and figurines
No full textVengono descritti e analizzati con un approccio tecnologico una serie di reperti del villaggio e della necropoli di Fewet (Fezzan libico): più di mille perline, sei manufatti in osso e due figurine di argilla frammentarie. L'analisi delle perline ( in uovo di struzzo, pietra, faience e vetro ha evidenziato analogie e differenze tra le perline raccolte nel villaggio e le perline che formavano il corredo funerario delle inumazioni della necropoli. I manufatti in osso raccolti nel villaggio sono di tipologia varia e suggeriscono l'impiego in differenti tipi di attività. Le figurine di argilla illustrano un aspetto interessante della manifattura ceramica di epoca Garamantica, già documentata a Germa.More than a thousand beads were collected from the Fewet compound and necropolis. Typological and technological analyses reveal differences as well as similarities between the compound and the necropolis assemblages. Six worked bone artefacts are analysed. A majority of these were collected in the southern dwelling units of the Fewet compound. The bone artefacts were well preserved and it has been possible to suggest a typological definition and their role in a series of craft activities. Two fragmentary clay figurines, unhearted in the area of the Fewet compound, highlight an interesting aspect of the Garamantian ceramic handicraft
Between the mountains and the oases: rock art landscapes and Fewet
No full textIl capitolo presenta i dati finora raccolti sull'arte rupestre del territorio di Fewet (Fezzan libico), mettendo in relazione il repertorio artistico Garamantico del Tadrart Acacus e delle aree circostanti. I caratteri generali dell'arte rupestre di epoca Garamantica erano già stati esposti dall'autrice nel volume dedicato al sito di Aghram Nadharif. Nel presente contributo vengono inclusi i dati inediti raccolti nel 2005 dal team coordinato dall'autrice, nell'ambito della missione italo-libica nel Fezzan.The chapter provides a description of both engraved and painted rock art recorded to date in the Fewet area, trying to relate that evidence to the general picture of the Garamantian artistic repertoire of the Tadrart Acacus and surrounding areas. The main features of the rock art dated to the historical phases were illustrated in a previous volume devoted to the fortified citadel of Aghram Nadharif. Additional data collected during the 2005 rock art survey in the northern region of the Tadrart Acacus are here included
Le nuove ricerche sull’arte rupestre del Tadrart Acacus : il senso del paesaggio, il senso della figura
No full textIl contributo illustra la nuova impostazione delle ricerche sul'arte rupestre del Tadrart Acacus effettuate a partire dal 2001 e coordinate dall'autrice del contributo. In particolare si pone l'accento sulla necessità di documentare la totalità delle figure e delle scene presenti in ogni singolo sito nonché la loro distribuzione sulle pareti rocciose. Vengono inoltre illustrati alcuni nuovi siti sui 500 recuperati negli ultimi anni e menzionate le tecniche di datazione diretta dell'arte rupestre, sperimentate anche nel Tadrart Acacus. Si ribadisce infine la necessità di conservare correttamente questo patrimonio, coinvolgendo anche le popolazioni locali
Technique and Content in the Rock Art of the Libyan Fezzan: some Saharan Stereotypes
No full textL'arte rupestre del Sahara libico (Fezzan) è stata oggetto di molteplici ricerche ed è di cruciale importanza per la ricostruzione del passato popolamento delle aree sahariane. In questo contributo viene presentata una analisi iconografica di pitture ed incisioni in parte inedite, utilizzando una chiave di lettura stilistica.The paper deals with the context and style of the Libyan Fezzan rock art. A selected number of the Tadrart Acacus and the Messak Settafet paintings and petroglyphs are described and compared
La memoria dell'arte. Le pitture rupestri dell'Acacus tra passato e futuro
No full textL'arte rupestre del Tadrart Acacus (Libia sud-occidentale) è iscritta dal 1985 nella Lista UNESCO dei siti patrimonio dell'umanità. Grande parte di questo successo si deve alla ricerca scientifica italiana, iniziata nel 1955, che dedicò e continua ogni anno a dedicare a questi luoghi energie, passioni e saperi. Il volume pubblica in forma critica ed esaustiva i risultati di ricerca di terreno e di laboratorio relativi a una importante collezione di riproduzioni di pitture rupestri effettuate dai Maestri pittori (tra gli altri Piero Guccione, Lorenzo Tornabuoni, Giovanni Checchi) al seguito della Missione tra il 1955 e il 1968, oggi conservate al Museo Preistorico-Etnografico 'L. Pigorini' di Roma, confrontandole con gli originali, ritrovati e ristudiati nel corso delle ultime missioni archeologiche in Acacus. Il volume, diviso in quattro parti, ripercorre la storia di quelle ricerche, ne analizza in dettaglio i problemi di significato e conservazione, fornisce un completo studio archeologico e artistico su base territoriale, valorizzando aspetti inter- e multidisciplinari, includendo aspetti teorici, metodologici, geoarcheologici, conservativi, storici e interpretativi, suggerendo infine un percorso possibile per il futuro di questo formidabile patrimonio.The rock art of Tadrart Acacus (southwestern Libya) has been included in the UNESCO World Heritage List since 1985. Much of this success is due to the Italian scientific research, begun in 1955, which dedicates and still continues every year to dedicate to these places energies, passions and knowledge. The book publishes in a critical and exhaustive form the research results of fieldwork and laboratory of a major collection of copies of prehistoric and historic rock paintings performed by the Masters Painters (among others Piero Guccione, Lorenzo Tornabuoni, Giovanni Checchi) following the Mission between the 1955 and 1968, now kept at the prehistoric-ethnographic museum 'L. Pigorini' of Rome, comparing them with the originals, found and re-examined during the last archaeological missions in Acacus. The volume, divided into four parts, traces the history of those researches, analyzes in detail the problems of meaning and conservation, provides a complete archaeological and artistic study on a territorial basis, enhancing inter- and multidisciplinary aspects, including theoretical, methodological, geo-archaeological, conservative, and historical, suggesting a possible path for the future of this formidable heritage
Art et vie quotidienne dans l’Epigravettien final: les galets utilisés de Grotta della Ferrovia (Italie Centrale)
No full textThe paper describes four decorated and/or utilized pebbles, coming from Grotta della Ferrovia (central Italy), that go back to the final Epigravettian (11,700+-200 BP) . These pieces are the archaelogical subject selected to illustrate the connection between the artistic activities and the daily life in the Upper Palaeolithic.The stylistic analyses (D.Zampetti), the use-wear analyses (C.Lemorini) and the technological and experimental observations (M.Massussi) show that these pieces were used and conceived both as multifunctional tools both as symbolic media
RESEARCHES OF THE SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME IN THE SITE OF MAADI (LOWER EGYPT): TOPOGRAPHY AND ARTEFACTS IN A CHRONOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVE
No full textBetween 1977 and 1986 an Italian expedition from the Sapienza University of Rome carried out six diggings campaigns in the well-known predynastic site of Maadi (IV mill. B.C.). The investigation, conducted by the Italian Expedition for the Researches in Egypt and Sudan under the direction of S. M. Puglisi and A. Palmieri, covered an area of around 450sqm. The excavation was located in the eastern part of the ancient settlement, diametrically opposite to the more recent diggings executed by the German Archaeological Institute. The study of the documentation, still unpublished except for some preliminary papers, has been resumed by the authors.
This material represents the occasion to complete the information contained in the past monographs about the first excavations done at Maadi, deepening the stratigraphic aspect which is fundamental for the understanding of the dynamics of formation and development of the site and in general of the Lower Egypt Predynastic culture, and to reconsider this site in the light of the latest researches made in the Nile Delta.
The present paper delivers preliminary results from the ongoing study and it is especially focused on the characteristics of the archaeological stratigraphy and on pottery and lithic assemblages.Between 1977 and 1986 an Italian expedition from the Sapienza University of Rome carried out six diggings campaigns in the well-known predynastic site of Maadi (IV mill. B.C.). The investigation, conducted by the Italian Expedition for the Researches in Egypt and Sudan under the direction of S. M. Puglisi and A. Palmieri, covered an area of around 450sqm. The excavation was located in the eastern part of the ancient settlement, diametrically opposite to the more recent diggings executed by the German Archaeological Institute. The study of the documentation, still unpublished except for some preliminary papers, has been resumed by the authors.
This material represents the occasion to complete the information contained in the past monographs about the first excavations done at Maadi, deepening the stratigraphic aspect which is fundamental for the understanding of the dynamics of formation and development of the site and in general of the Lower Egypt Predynastic culture, and to reconsider this site in the light of the latest researches made in the Nile Delta.
The present paper delivers preliminary results from the ongoing study and it is especially focused on the characteristics of the archaeological stratigraphy and on pottery and lithic assemblages
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