Study on Prehistoric Ornaments of ITaly
SPOT is a project focused on the study of Neolithic and Copper age personal ornaments from Italy.
This research project aims to extend our knowledge of the ornamental custom of the ancient farmers’ communities, trying to highlining possible chronological and geographical differences, that may reflect diversities in the cultural and symbolic systems of the human groups.
A multi-analytical approach to the study of these non-utilitarian items, whose production requires time, labour, and particular skills, can be useful to understand the importance of craft production in the communities and reconstruct the existence of social and economic relations involved.
SPOT Principal Investigators: Cristiana Petrinelli Pannocchia, Alice Vassanelli
Partners and Collaborators: Museo di Storia Naturale del Mediterraneo di Livorno, Museo Archeologico e dell’ Uomo Alberto Carlo Blanc di Viareggio (LU), ICCOM-CNR of Pisa, Department of Earth Sciences-University of Pisa, CNR-IGAG of Rome and the students participating in the experimental activities conducted in the Prehistory and Experimental Archaeology Lab of the University of Pisa
SPOT is supported by the Department of Knowledge and Forms of Civilization of University of Pisa.
Contact: Cristiana Petrinelli Pannocchia
Research outputs
Petrinelli Pannocchia C., Vassanelli A., (in press). Il Pendaglio litico di Colle Santo Stefano (Ortucchio,AQ) nel panorama delle produzioni ornamentali del Neolitico antico. AGOGHE’, Atti della Scuola di Specializzazione in Beni Archeologici, Volumi XIX, 2022, Pisa University Press.
Petrinelli Pannocchia C., Vassanelli A., 2023. The Botanical Ornaments of La Marmotta. In Mineo M., Gibaja J., Mazzucco N. (Eds.) The Submerged Site of La Marmotta (Rome, Italy): Decrypting a Neolithic Society, pp 113-117. Oxbow Books.
Vassanelli, A., Petrinelli Pannocchia, C., 2021. I vaghi in steatite di età pre-protostorica del territorio livornese (Toscana). AGOGHE’, Atti della Scuola di Specializzazione in Beni Archeologici, Volumi XIV-XVIII, 2017-2021, Pisa University Press, 2021 pp. 59-72. DOI 10.12871/ 97888333961257
Petrinelli Pannocchia C., Vassanelli A., 2021. The First Italian Farmers: The Role of Stone Ornaments in Tradition, Innovation, and Cultural Change. Open Archaeology, 7, pp. 1398 -1424. https://doi.org/10.1515/opar-2020-0175
Petrinelli Pannocchia C., Vassanelli A., 2016. Il Pendaglio di Colle Santo Stefano, Ortucchio (AQ). Atti del IV Convegno di Archeologia “Il Fucino e le aree limitrofe nell’ Antichità”, Avezzano 22-23 Maggio 2015, pp. 109-114