Buca della Iena, Grotta del Capriolo and Grotta del Cervo are three small sites in the hills next to the…
New publication assessing the stratigraphies of Mousterian sites in NW Tuscany
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The first excavation campaign at the Mesolithic site of Monte Frignone (San Romano in Garfagnana, Lucca) has concluded.
The remains of a hunter-gatherer camp have been uncovered a few hundred meters from Monte Frignone. The archaeological mission of…
New evidence reveals the earliest use of cinnabar in the western Mediterranean
A study by the University of Pisa, led by C. Petrinelli Pannocchia as part of the research project on the…
PreIStoriA partecipates to the European Archaeology Days 2024 with “Catignano and its Neolithic Culture”
In synergy with other prestigious institutions, the Department of Civilizations and Forms of Knowledge has collaborated in organizing three days…
Communication event “Preistoria e ambiente nella Toscana nord-occidentale. Nuovi orizzonti”
The event “Preistoria e ambiente nella Toscana nord-occidentale. Nuovi Orizzonti” took place on June 8, 2024, at the Archaeological and…
Excavations Ongoing at Monte Frignone (Garfagnana, Lucca)
This week, the University of Pisa resumed excavations at Monte Frignone (Corfino, Lucca), a site with human occupations dated to…
PreIStoriA participated to the first TRANSECT launching meeting at STARC (Cyprus Institute)
A two day meeting has been done to launch and present the TRANSECT project “IRP TRANSECT : TRANSitions Environnementales et CulTurelles…
The First Agricultural Machinery in Europe: The Use of Threshing Sledges During the Neolithic
The new article is part of the project “AGER” The article “Use-Wear Evidence for the Use of Threshing Sledges in…
PreIStoriA partecipates to “Incontri di Archeologia”
During the “Incontri di Archeologia” (Meetings in Archaeology. Excavations and surveys of the University of Pisa in Italy and abroad)…
New research is out! Early use of sheep wool for textiles, 4250–3950 cal BCE
The study “A traceological and quantitative assessment of the function of the bone bi-pointed tools from the Late Neolithic of…