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The Archaeology of Grotta Scaloria

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Grotta Scaloria, in Apulia, first discovered in 1931, excavated briefly in 1967, extensively from 1978-1980 by a joint UCLA-University of Genoa team, but not fully published until now. The project ...
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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.
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Price: £75.00
Pages: 450
Publisher: Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press
Imprint: Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Press
Series: Monumenta Archaeologica
Publication Date: 15 April 2016
ISBN: 9781938770074
Format: Hardcover
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SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology, Archaeology
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Ernestine S. Elster is a visiting assistant professor at the Cotsen Institute of Archaeology at the University of California, Los Angeles. Eugenia Isetti is the president of the Istituto Italiano di Archeologia Sperimentale in Genoa. John Robb is a professor in the Department of Archaeology at Cambridge University. Antonella Traverso is with the Soprintendenza Archeologia della Liguria.

Ch. 1 Grotta Scaloria: An Archaeological History by Ernestine S. Elster
Comments, Scaloria Day, Genoa 2008 by Santo Tiné
Ch. 2 Introduction to Scaloria Cave
Ch. 2.1 Discovery and Explorations of the Cave, 1931-2013 by Eugenia Isetti
Ch. 2.2 Research in Occhiopinto Cave by Nicoletta Bianchi, Eugenia Isetti, and Antonella Traverso
Ch. 2.3 Radiocarbon Dating and Absolute Chronology by John Robb
Ch. 3 The Ancient Cave and Its Human Occupation
Ch. 3.1 Geoarchaeological Studies by Ivano Rellini, Andrea Ciampalini, Marco Firpo, and John Hellstrom
Ch. 3.2 Archaeobotanical Analysis: Paleoenvironmental Implications by Girolamo Fiorentino and Cosimo D'Oronzo
Ch. 3.3 Prehistoric Animal Remains from Grotta Scaloria by László Bartosiewicz and Éva Ágnes Nyerges
Ch. 3.4 Sensory Worlds of Grotta Scaloria by Sue Hamilton, Mike Seager Thomas, and Ruth Whitehouse
Santo Tiné: A Special Tribute by Ruth Whitehouse
Ch. 3.5 Cults and Rites at Scaloria Cave: The Contextual Evidence by Eugenia Isetti, Antonella Traverso, and Anna Maria Tunzi Sisto
Ch. 4 The Cave's Occupants in Life and Death
Ch. 4.1 The Human Skeletal Remains from Scaloria Cave by Christopher Knu?sel, John Robb, and Mary Anne Tafuri
Ch. 4.2 Diet during Life: Paleoeconomic Studies of Human Diet Using Stable Carbon and Nitrogen Isotopes by Mary Anne Tafuri, Tamsin C. O'Connell, Ellon Souter, Nunzia Libianchi, and John Robb
Ch. 4.3 Mobility, Landscape, and the Function of the Cave: Evidence from Strontium Isotopes by Mary Anne Tafuri, Tamsin C. O'Connell, John Robb, Christopher Knu?sel, and Paul Fullagar
Ch. 4.4 The Upper Cave: Taphonomic Analysis of the Treatment of the Dead by Christopher Knu?sel, John Robb, and Mary Anne Tafuri
Ch. 5 Material Culture I. Pottery: Form, Decoration, and Distribution
Ch. 5.1 Pottery Morphology and Typology by Antonella Traverso
Ch. 5.2 Pottery from the Upper Chamber 1978 Excavations by Antonella Traverso
Ch. 5.3 Pottery from the Lower Chamber by Eugenia Isetti and Antonella Traverso
Ch. 5.4 Pottery from the Upper Chamber by Eugenia Isetti and Antonella Traverso
Ch. 5.5 Marija Gimbutas's Notes of Tavoliere Sites and Drawings of Scaloria Pottery: 1976-1980
Ch. 5.6 Archaeometric Analysis of Ceramic Materials by Italo M. Muntoni and Giacomo Eramo
Ch. 5.7 Scaloria Cave Ceramics in Museo Archaeologico Nazionale, Taranto: The Quagliati and Drago Collection by Mariantonia Gorgoglione, Eugenia Isetti, and Antonella Traverso
Ch. 6 Material Culture II. Stone Tools and Artifacts of Bone and Shell
Ch. 6.1 The Lithic Industry of the 1978 Excavation Campaign by Cecilia Conati Barbaro
Ch. 6.2 In Daily Use: 1979 Assemblage of Chipped Stone by Ernestine S. Elster
Ch. 6.3 The Ground and Polished Stone Assemblage by Patrizia Garibaldi, Eugenia Isetti, Irene Molinari, and Guido Rossi
Ch. 6.4 Bone Tool Industry by Donatella Pian
Ch. 6.5 Shell from the Grotta Scaloria by David S. Reese
Ch. 7 Conclusions by John Robb, Ernestine S. Elster, Eugenia Isetti, and Antonella Traverso