Archaeology of Grotta Scaloria : ritual in Neolithic southeast Italy /

Archaeology of Grotta Scaloria : ritual in Neolithic southeast Italy /

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Bibliographic Details
Imprint:	[Los Angeles] : The Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press, [2016]
Description:	xxviii, 418 pages ; 29 cm.
Language:	English
Series:	Monumenta archaeologica ; 38 Monumenta archaeologica (Los Angeles, Calif.) ; v. 38.
Subject:	Excavations (Archaeology) -- Italy -- Puglia. Neolithic period -- Italy -- Puglia. Ritual -- Italy -- Puglia -- History -- To 1500. Social archaeology -- Italy -- Puglia. Antiquities. Excavations (Archaeology) Neolithic period. Ritual. Social archaeology. Scaloria Cave (Italy) Puglia (Italy) -- Antiquities. Italy -- Puglia. Italy -- Scaloria Cave. History.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/10781498

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Other authors / contributors:	Elster, Ernestine S., editor. Robb, John, 1962 March 18- editor. Isetti, Eugenia, editor. Traverso, Antonella, 1962- editor.
ISBN:	9781938770074 1938770072
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
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"--

Table of 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.