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(2024)The contribution focuses on analyzing the material sources from the medieval period in the Mount Amiata area in Tuscany, examining the historical and ideological significance of the main architectural types associated with ...
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(2024)The Ferrucciano Museum of Gavinana, in the municipality of San Marcello Piteglio (PT) is a small museum structure dedicated to the conservation of relics and the memory of the battle of Gavinana on 3 August 1530, during ...
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(2024)It is difficult to escape from spatial metaphors to know and describe the characteristics of time and its flow. Space is easier to think about, depict and study as it is a material testimony to the lives of the people who ...
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(2024)Zooarcheology is a Frankenstein hybrid, born from the ribs of a myriad of disciplines. Its research focuses on animal remains from archeological contexts under an anthropological perspective with the primary and ultimate ...
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(2024)Some documents attest that in Middle Age Florence and Cagliari had a church of St. Cecilia. Scholars think that the circulation of the cult of the saint is somehow linked to the vandal Africa and to the theological controversy ...
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(2024)The transition from hunter-gatherer economies to Neolithic productive ones is a crucial moment that sees profound changes in the social, ideological and productive structures, differentiated in the various European regions ...
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(2024)Archaeologists and architects: areas of communication, collaboration and conflict: this is the title of a speech by Philip Rahtz that after a few decades can constitute a useful starting point for reflections on the ...
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(2024)One of the most famous monuments of Petra is considered by questioning its nature as a sepulchral monument, generally accepted. In the light of its architecture and its topographical location, other possible functions are ...
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(2024)This article explores the intertwined dynamics of trade, religion, and geography through the lens of the Petici family, prominent merchants engaged in long-distance trans- Mediterranean commerce during the Roman Empire. ...
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(2024)My goal with this chapter is to share our experience at Tall Hisban in Jordan with what I have chosen to call site custody activism or simply SCA. After introducing the notion of SCA, I briefly examine the historical role ...
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(2024)The aim of this study is to investigate the nature and the context of the devotional paths linked to Biblical figures in the Levant, with specific focus on the east of the Jordan River during the early Middle Ages. The ...
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(2024)Starting from some recent events (2021), the contribution intends to reason on archaeological artefacts and their current status, asking questions for which there is often no answer. In particular, considering them as ...
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(2024)The Jordan Archaeological Museum in ʿAmman houses an Islamic copper alloy incense burner, which can be dated to the late 7th or early 8th century according to its discovery (in the late 1940s) in an Umayyad dwelling in the ...
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(2024)Recent geophysical research and an analysis of the architectural structures actually recognisable in the current cathedral church of Albano Laziale (Rome), dedicated to S. Pancrazio, allow us to confirm the hypothesis, ...
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(2024)I met Guido thirty-seven days before the start of the third millennium, after presenting at the VAST congress in Arezzo in November 2000. Our collaboration was born in the cold of a parking lot, with the attempt to start ...
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(2024)Il contributo propone una sintesi sui lavori di lettura archeologica degli elevati nel castello di San Lucido (noto come castello Ruffo, sulla costa tirrenica calabrese, in provincia di Cosenza), un sito fino ad oggi ...
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(2024)Starting from a historiographical analysis that highlights the rising, between the last decades of the nineteenth century and the beginning of the twentieth century, of a strongly innovative glance at sculptural materials ...
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(2024)In Roman society of the third century CE, marked by deep innovative drives and by the search for new intellectual models and new forms of transcendence, a comparative reading of christianity and mithraism appears indispensable ...
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(2024)The portion of flooring decorated with opus sectile squares, recently found in the still initial archaeological excavations at al-Jayyah at the feet of Shawbak castle, are the pretext for some brief observations regarding ...
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(2024)From 2004 to 2010 the chair of medieval archeology at the University of Florence, led by prof. Guido Vannini encouraged and supported the archaeozoological analysis of the faunal remains recovered at Castel Vaiolo, Prato, ...
