Aeolian Islands
27 Followers
Recent papers in Aeolian Islands
This article examines the impact of the Continental Blockade upon a local fishing and agricultural economy in the Mediterranean by focusing on the illicit trades that flourished on Stromboli. The island became a strategic location for... more
The Graeco-Italic amphorae — types IV and V — (Van der Mersch 1994 classification) of Italic origins are considered as wine-amphorae, but no concrete tests for the presence of wine within them have existed until now. The recent... more
CLASSICAL AUTHORS AND ITALIAN ORE RESOURCES The classical authors references to Italian mines are very scarce and mostly referable to times before the end of the Roman Republic. This is because, as Pliny recalls, the Senate had... more
The island of Salina comprises one of the most distinct calc-alkaline series of the Aeolian arc (Italy), in which calc-alkaline, high-K calc-alkaline, shoshonitic and leucite-shoshonitic magma series are developed. Detailed petrological,... more
RIASSUNTO Vengono fornite informazioni sulla distribuzione e l'ecologia di cinque piante vascolari nuove per le Eolie, ovvero Amaranthus viridis, Brachypodium stacei, Briza minor, Mercurialis annua subsp. ambigua e Ophioglossum... more
Social Organization and Community Practices. Analysis for a reconstruction of the social framework of the Aeolian communities during the Middle Bronze Age PhD dissertation-2012 University of Udine Department of History and Preservation of... more
ISTITUTO ITALIANO DI PREISTORIA E PROTOSTORIA NOTIZIARIO DI PREISTORIA E PROTOSTORIA -4.III Neolitico ed età dei Metalli Sardegna e Sicilia
This paper proposes a Bayesian model for the 14C chronology of Sicilian Early and Middle Bronze Age, with a specific focus on the northeastern sector of the island. Building on the available 14C determinations, the model allows addressing... more
This paper deals with the first preliminary study of kitchen and cooking wares acquired during four seasons of excavations at the Akrai site (modern Palazzolo Acreide). Earlier research in Akrai involved excavating architectural remains,... more
Convegno di Studi in ricordo di Giorgio Buchner, a 100 anni dalla nascita (1914 – 2014) – Organizzato da A. Cazzella, A. Guidi, F. Nomi. Anacapri, 27 ottobre Capri, 28 ottobre Ischia/Lacco Ameno, 29 ottobre POSSIBILITA' DI ALLOGGIO... more
The use of contingency tables is widespread in archaeology. Cross-tabulations are used in many different studies as a useful tool to synthetically report data, and are also useful when analyst wishes to seek for latent data structures.... more
Settlement and social organization in Middle Bronze Age Sicily (ca 1490–1250 BCE) have received scant attention compared to that devoted to broader cultural processes during the same period. In spite of some limitations, this work aims at... more
“UBI MINOR”, “LE ISOLE MINORI DEL MEDITERRANEO CENTRALE DAL NEOLITICO AI PRIMI CONTATTI COLONIALI”, Capri 27-30 ottobre 2014
Catomus aeolicus sp. nov. is described from the Aeolian archipelago (Sicily, Italy). The new species differs from the other European Catomus by having distinctly bent tibiae, longer antennae (especially in males), and strongly highlighted... more
"RESEARCH ON THE DEFINEMENT AND SOURCE OF THE OBSIDIAN FROM SERRA DEL PALCO (SICILY). - The Serra del Palco village is an emblematic obsidian exchange networks study case. Sicily midland located, and dated from Neolithic... more
“UBI MINOR”, “LE ISOLE MINORI DEL MEDITERRANEO CENTRALE DAL NEOLITICO AI PRIMI CONTATTI COLONIALI”, Capri 27-30 ottobre 2014
The book is the result of a three-year investigation for a PhD project at the University of Salento (Lecce, Italy). By comparing archaeological and archaeobotanical data, new paleodemographic estimations are made, reconstructing the use... more