Overview

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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Author:   Ernestine S. Elster ,  Eugenia Isetti ,  John Robb ,  Antonella Traverso
Publisher:   Cotsen Institute of Archaeology at UCLA
Imprint:   Cotsen Institute of Archaeology at UCLA
Volume:   38
Dimensions:   Width: 21.50cm , Height: 3.00cm , Length: 27.80cm
Weight:   1.605kg
ISBN:  

9781938770074

ISBN 10:   1938770072
Pages:   450
Publication Date:   15 April 2016
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

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

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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.

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