A5025553637- Archaeology and ancient environmental studies
- Forensic Anthropology and Bioarchaeology Studies
- Paleopathology and ancient diseases
- Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology
- Ancient Mediterranean Archaeology and History
- Birth, Development, and Health
- Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies
- Archaeological and Historical Studies
- Forensic and Genetic Research
- Isotope Analysis in Ecology
- Classical Antiquity Studies
- Indigenous Studies and Ecology
University of Padua
2021-2025
Abstract The Early Iron Age in Italy (end of the tenth to eighth century BCE) was characterized by profound changes which influenced subsequent political and cultural scenario peninsula. At end this period people from eastern Mediterranean (e.g. Phoenicians Greek people) settled along Italian, Sardinian Sicilian coasts. Among local populations, so-called Villanovan culture group—mainly located on Tyrrhenian side central southern Po plain—stood out since beginning for extent their...
Cremation 168 from the second half of 8 th century BCE (Pithekoussai’s necropolis, Ischia Island, Italy), better known as Tomb Nestor’s Cup, is widely considered one most intriguing discoveries in Mediterranean Pre-Classic archaeology. A drinking cup, which Tomb’s name derives, bears earliest surviving examples written Greek, representing oldest Homeric poetry ever recovered. According to previous osteological analyses, Cup associated with cremated remains a juvenile, aged approximately...
Since prehistoric times, the island of Sardinia—in western Mediterranean—has played a leading role in dynamics human population and mobility, circulation raw materials artefacts, idioms customs, technologies ideas that have enriched biological, linguistic cultural heritage local groups. For Phoenician Punic periods (from 9 th to 3 rd centuries BCE), ancient site Nora—in southern Sardinia—represents an emblematic case study migratory phenomena occurred on Island from Iron Age until Roman...