Archaeology of Grotta Scaloria : ritual in Neolithic southeast Italy / edited by Ernestine S. Elster, Eugenia Isetti, John Robb, Antonella Traverso.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Elster, Ernestine S., editor.

Robb, John, 1962 March 18- editor.

Isetti, Eugenia, editor.

Traverso, Antonella, 1962- editor.

Series:

Monumenta archaeologica (Los Angeles, Calif.) ; v. 38.

Monumenta archaeologica ; 38

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social archaeology.

Ritual.

History.

Neolithic period.

Excavations (Archaeology).

Scaloria Cave (Italy).

Excavations (Archaeology)--Italy--Puglia.

Puglia (Italy)--Antiquities.

Puglia (Italy).

Neolithic period--Italy--Puglia.

Ritual--Italy--Puglia--History--To 1500.

Social archaeology--Italy--Puglia.

Italy--Puglia.

Physical Description:

xxviii, 418 pages ; 29 cm.

Place of Publication:

[Los Angeles] : The Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press, [2016]

Summary:

"Grotta Scaloria, a cave in Apulia, was first discovered and explored in 1931, excavated briefly in 1967, and then excavated extensively from 1978 to 1980 by a joint UCLA-University of Genoa team, but it was never fully published. The Save Scaloria Project was organized to locate this legacy data and to enhance that information by application of the newest methods of archaeological and scientific analysis. This significant site is finally published in one comprehensive volume (and in an online archive of additional data and photographs) that gathers together the archaeological data from the upper and lower chambers of the cave. These data indicate intense ritual and quotidian use during the Neolithic period (circa 5600-5300 BCE). The Grotta Scaloria project is also important as historiography, since it illustrates a changing trajectory of research spanning three generations of European and American archaeology"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Grotta Scaloria : an Archaeological History / Ernestine S. Elster

Comments, Scaloria Day, Genoa 2008 / Santo Tinè

Introduction to Scaloria Cave

The Ancient Cave and Its Human Occupation

The Cave's Occupants in Life and Death

Material Culture I: Pottery : Form, Decoration, and Distribution

Material Culture II: Stone Tools and Artifacts of Bone and Shell

Conclusions / John Robb, Ernestine S. Elster, Eugenia Isetti, and Antonella Traverso

Appendices.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781938770074

1938770072

OCLC:

942744672

Online:

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