Archivio per l'Antropologia e la Etnologia

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Ripensare l'Africa. La collezione di Ernesto Brissoni al Museo di Antropologia e Etnologia di Firenze

Among the thousands of objects from the African continent that came to the museum in the colonial era, Ernesto Brissoni's collection from the Congo deserves particular attention. Due to the quality of the works of the collection, it has repeatedly ar...

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Tarquinia scomparsa: progetto di virtualizzazione 3D e analisi storico archeologica dell'ipogeo 1824 in località Calvario (Necropoli dei Monterozzi)

The archaeological record is often founded on the dynamic relationship between visible and invisible. A third possible dynamic, due the ravishes of time, is the «no longer visible». These three forces operated in the Calvario cemetery, a Hellenistic...

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Le collane degli Ainu nella raccolta di Fosco Maraini al Museo di Antropologia di Firenze

Twenty years after the death of the great Florentine traveller Fosco Maraini (1912-2004) the Museum of Anthropology and Ethnology of the University of Florence reordered the material of his 1939-41 collection among the Ainu of Hokkaido. It is one of...

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Severe gout and its treatment in an early 18th century Southern German monk: palaeopathology and archaeology

Following the restoration of the crypt of the Attel monastery in Southern Germany, the human remains of 16 out of 40 monks were exhumed and underwent anthropological and palaeopathological investigations. These skeletal remains were of individuals wh...

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Analisi biologiche dei resti scheletrici di San Giuseppe da Copertino

We present the study of a peculiar case of the skeletal remains of an individual who was later recognised as a saint. According to the stories of his life he suffered a life of deprivation accompanied by physical phenomena that often considered as su...

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Margaret Mead: un percorso antropologico contemporaneo

This article deals with some lesser-known key points of Margaret Mead's unconventional pathways of life and work. She raised many transcultural issues regarding female and male sexes that are still relevant and continue to animate current academic an...

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The Secular Trend in Sicily. Proposal for Long Bones Measures and Statures open access databases

Human Stature is a widely used index of both individuals and populations. Stature is a sensitive measure of a series of factors including gender, age, social status, and environment. Human biologists and historians can use information on stature to b...

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Mantegazza pop. Dall'Heracleum Mantegazzianum di Sommier & Levier a The return of the Giant Hogweed dei Genesis e oltre

Tuscan botanists and explorers Stéphen Sommier and Emile Levier during their trip to the Caucasus (1890) discovered a new plant species. In 1895 they named the species Heracleum mantegazzianum in dedication to their friend and anthropologist Paolo Ma...

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Keepers of memories. Pre-Columbian Peruvian workbaskets in the Anthropology and Ethnology Museum of Florence

Pre-Columbian workbaskets were common inside burials, especially in coastal Andean regions. They mostly contained tools and raw materials related to textile production, but there were also some elements (e.g. Spondylus shells) not strictly connected...

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Il serpente fra mito, rito e tradizione. Note a partire da due coltelli con motivi ofidici

This article aims to investigate the figure of the serpent through some of the most widespread myths and legends in various cultures. The study starts from the presence of two knives with ophidian motifs in the Museum of Anthropology and Ethnology in...

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Forensic Facial Approximation and Archaeology: the case of Carmilla, the «Vampire of Venice»

In 2006 an archaeological excavation on Lazzaretto Nuovo Island (Venice, Italy) uncovered an anomalous grave dated by stratigraphic evidence to the 1576 plague pandemic. The human remains (ID 6) were interred with a brick placed in the mouth, indicat...

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Analisi di resti scheletrici umani da siti risalenti al tardo Neolitico e all'età del Rame della provincia di Bergamo

Human osteological remains from Late Neolithic and Copper Age sites in the province of Bergamo were examined and reviewed. These derive from caves in the municipalities of Zogno (Buca del Tabàc, Grotta Pussù, Buca del Paier), Entratico (Buca del Corn...

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The colonial face casts of Nello Puccioni: an emblematic case from Italy's fascist period

This article focuses, for the first time, on an in depth and systematic study of the face casts production of the Florentine anthropologist Nello Puccioni. The face casts are housed at the Museum of Anthropology and Ethnology of the University of Flo...