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"Origines"
Series
The
Institute edits volumes of scientific interest on different
aspects of prehistoric and protohistoric civilizations and on
the main researches carried out or financed by the Institute
itself.
Since
1955 have been published in the Series "Origines: studi e
materiali pubblicati a cura dell'Istituto Italiano di Preistoria
e Protostoria" 17 illustrated monographs in Italian and in
other languages .
- J.
Tschudi, Pitture rupestri del Tasili degli Azger (Sahara
algerino), 108 pp., 20 figg. nel testo e 39 fuori testo
in b. e n., 27 tavv. a monocromo, 8 tavv. a colori,
Firenze, 1955.
The
first volume includes the discoveries of rock paintings
found by the Authoress in the massif of Tasili degli
Azger. The large and accurate documentation of the rock
paintings gives the opportunity to reconstruct a wide
and complex cultural world developed through a long
period of time.
- S.
Puglisi, La civiltà appenninica. Origine delle comunità
pastorali in Italia, 116 pp., 30 figg. nel testo, 22
tavv. fuori testo, 1 tav. a colori, Firenze, 1959.
The
Author analyzes the formation, the development and the
historical definition of the ancient populations living
in the Appennine region, using data from different
subjects. It is up to now an essential work for the
study of the Bronze Age in the Italian mainland
- L.R.
Nougier, R. Robert, Rouffignac. I
Galerie H. Breuil et Grand Plafond, 80 pp., 5 figg. nel
testo, 53 tavv. b. e n. fuori testo, 1 tav. a colori,
Firenze, 1959.
The
discoverers of the Cave of Rouffignac describe for the
first time an important section of this huge monument of
palaeolithic rock art. A large number of mammoths and
many other animals, as bisons, horses, steinbocks,
rhinos and felines are engraved or painted in black on
the walls and on the vault of the room.
- G.
Devoto, Origini indoeuropee, XII-522 pp., 74 figg. nel
testo, 20 tavv. fuori testo in b. e n., Firenze, 1962.
This
essential work sets two goals: extend an already known
linguistic knowledge in a broader range of disciplines
related to archaeology, geography, anthropology and
ethnography and reach a unitary historic outlook on the
Indo-European phenomenon.
- G.
Buti, La casa degli Indoeuropei. Tradizione e
Archeologia, 210 pp., 37 figg. nel testo, 16 tavv. fuori
testo in b. e n., Firenze, 1962.
The
evolution and the meaning of the house give the
Authoress, Devoto's pupil, the opportunity to see into
the Indo-European origins of the western civilization.
Archaeologic, philologic, linguistic monuments focalize
the protohistory of our continent.
- P.
Graziosi, Levanzo. Pitture e incisioni, 92 pp., 7 figg.
net testo in b. e n., 34 tavv. fuori testo, di cui 5 a
colori, Firenze, 1962.
The
paintings and the engravings of the Cave of Cala
Genovese in the Levanzo Isle (Egadi) widely illustrated
in this volume, form the only set in our country for the
number and the kind of figures made by peoples of
different ages and civilization: the beautiful realistic
engravings of wild animals works of the Upper
Palaeolithis hunters and the probably Neolithic wall
paintings.
- A.M.
Radmilli, Abruzzo preistorico. Il paleolitico
inferiore-medio abruzzese, 117 pp., 3 figg. nel testo,
52 tavv. fuori testo in b. e n., Firenze, 1965.
The
discoveries made by the Committee for the prehistoric
researches in Abruzzo have allowed the Author to give
for the first time a description of the most ancient
Prehistory in Abruzzo. The different cultures of the
most ancient hunters-gatherers in Abruzzo are presented
through a deep analysis of the lithic industries and
their stratigraphic, geographic and environmental
situation.
- V.
Dumitrescu, L'Arte preistorica in Romania fino
all'inizio dell'età delferro, 264 pp., 98 tavv. in b. e
n. e 7 tavv. a colori fuori testo, Firenze, 1972.
This
volume decribes the art of Rumanie from the Upper
Paleolithic to the Bronze Age, through the revision and
the amplification of former studies. The analysis
concerns, for each period, an amazing variety of
artistic documents (ceramics, sculpture, metalware,
architectonic structures).
- R.
Lunz, Studien zur End-Bronzezeit und älteren Eisenzeit
im Südalpenraum, 550 pp., 100 tavv. fuori testo in b. e
n., riass. italiano e inglese, Firenze, 1974.
The
volume's aim is to show a chronological and cultural
description of the Late Bronze Age and the Early Iron
Age in the South-Eastern Alpine area, between the Adige
and the Piave. The results emphasize a diffusion of
typological elements toward the North Tyrol through the
Alpine Passes and this is probably related to real
migrations of peoples that brought to a cultural
unification between the two Alpine slopes during the
Iron Age.
- A.M.
Radmilli, Gli scavi nella Grotta Polesini a Ponte Lucano
e la più antica arte nel Lazio, 131 pp., 41 figg. nel
testo, 8 tavv. fuori testo, riass. francese e inglese,
Firenze, 1974.
The
Author describes in detail and with the help of a rich
iconography the results of his excavations of Grotta
Polesini, one of the most important deposit for the
knowledge of the history of the peoples living in Latium
at the end of the Upper Palaeolithic Age (12.000-10.000
years ago), thanks also to the natural sciences, it has
been possible to go back to the climate, the background,
the life style of the people who lived there. The
several stone and bone engravings found in the Cave,
enlarge the knowledge of the Palaeolithic art in Italy
and open a new view on the magic and religious world of
the ancient hunters-gatherers.
- R.
Peroni, G. Carancini, P. Coretti Irdi, L. Ponzi Bonomi,
P. Saronio Masolo, A. Rallo, F.R. Serra Ridgway, Studi
sulla cronologia delle civiltà di Este e Golasecca, 410
pp., 117 figg. nel testo, 24 tavv. fuori testo, riass.
in francese e inglese, Firenze, 1975.
The
Volume, result of a general research work describes the
two main civilizations - Este and Golasecca - born in
the Tanspadana area of Northern Italy during the Iron
Age. It is based on the analysis of the archaeological
finds, mostly tomb-out-fits. Of great importance the
accurate methodological setting out that has its centre
in the typological and chronological analysis and brings
the research back to an European unitary prospect.
- M.A
Fugazzola Delpino, Testimonianze di cultura appenninica
nel Lazio, 318 pp., 98 figg. nel testo, 15 tavv. fuori
testo, riass. francese e inglese, Firenze, 1976.
The
study of the finds, especially ceramics from the
Apennine and Subapennine facies of Latium, the
examination of the stratigraphy, the funeral aspects,
the topographic position of settlements and necropolis,
of osteological and palaeobotanic data allow the
Authoress to reach, through the systematization and
interpretation of these archaeological discoveries, a
large syntesis on the Middle and Late Bronze Age, beyond
the regional territorial borders.
- P.
Graziosi, Le pitture preistoriche della grotta di Porto
Badisco, 196 pp., 11 figg. nel testo, XXV tabelle e 128
tavv. fuori testo, di cui 63 a colori, Firenze, 1980.
The
Cave of Porto Badisco, with its hundreds of painted
fgures, represents one of the most imposing artistic
monuments of agricultural-pastoral peoples of the late
european prehistory.
The knowledge of this great repertory of paintings - of
schematic fgurative type and of abstract symbolic type -
opens up a new perspective on the interpretation of the
art phenomenon.
The Volume describes, explains and defines
chronologically and culturally, several pictorial
subjects and deepens the knowledge of the mentality and
ideologic attitude of the painters.
- N.
Negroni Catacchio e Collaboratori, Sorgenti della Nova:
l'abitato del Bronzo finale, 451 pp., 156 figg. nel
testo, Firenze, 1995.
The
new and rich data got from the excavations in the Upper
Bronze area of the Sorgenti della Nova emphasize the
kind of settlement before the town in Southern Etruria.
Most of this volume describes the urbanistic and
architectonic aspects of the Sorgenti della Nova,
stressing the inside organization of the spaces and the
living and religious structures; the Volume also
describes several typologies of materials and formulates
somefunctional analysis.
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