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Research paper thumbnail of Lo scheletro n. 2 di età neolitica, rinvenuto all'"Arma di Nasino" in Val Pennavaira (Savona)

Rivista di scienze preistoriche, 1974

Research paper thumbnail of A Bronze Javelin Point in a Femur from the Necropolis of Pontecagnano. (Salerno, Southern Italy, IV Century BC)

Anthropological science, 1999

We describe the right femur of an adult male from grave 4141 of the Pontecagnano Necropolis (Sale... more We describe the right femur of an adult male from grave 4141 of the Pontecagnano Necropolis (Salerno, IV century BC). The cortical surface of the bone is raised around a bronze mass visible on the bone surface at the level of the lesser trochanter at the central area of the anterior surface of the femoral shaft. Around the mass there is new bone, which presents some microscopic evidence of inflammation. X-ray analysis reveals that the mass, which measures 2cm in length, is the cone shaped posterior part of a javelin tip, directed upwards, and with the tip folded. Therefore, it appears that the javelin entered near the inguinal plica and struck the anterior surface of the femoral neck from below. This injury could have occurred if the aggressor struck the victim, who was likely on horseback, from below. The roentgenograms also show a well developed reactive bone around the bronze projectile. Both the macroscopic aspects of the injury and its radiographic picture indicate that the victim survived for a considerable time following his unusual injury.

Research paper thumbnail of Contribution to the Knowledge of the Late Epigravettian Human Remains from Arene Candide Cave (Liguria, Italy) : A Peculiar-Shaped Skull

Homo-journal of Comparative Human Biology, 1987

Extr. de res. d'A. L'objet de cette etude est un crâne de l'Epigravettien final retro... more Extr. de res. d'A. L'objet de cette etude est un crâne de l'Epigravettien final retrouve dans la grotte des Arene Candide (...) pendant les fouilles effectuees par Cardini dans les annees 40. Le materiel, date fin IX-X millenaire a. C., comprend la face superieure presque complete, la mandibule, les dents et le crâne neural fragmentaire et tres incomplet. (...) La caracteristique la plus evidente de ce crâne est l'exceptionelle longueur glabella opisthocranion, due a un allongement extraordinaire de l'ecaille occipitale. (...) Messeri (1980) a attribue cette particularite a une deformation artificielle du type circulaire oblique, qui aurait ete produite intentionnellement par des bandeaux serres autour du front et de la nuque. Un nouvel examen de cet aspect important, fonde sur les rares parties reconstruites de facon fiable, revele l'absence de direction oblique vers le haut de l'ecaille occipitale qui est typique de la deformation (...)

Research paper thumbnail of Un caso di traumatismo da punta di bronzo alla radice dell'arto inferiore in un individuo dell'età del Ferro da Pontecagnano (Salerno, IV secolo a.C.)

Les auteurs etudient la presence d'une pointe metallique dans le femur droit d'un adulte ... more Les auteurs etudient la presence d'une pointe metallique dans le femur droit d'un adulte mâle exhume de la tombe n°4141 de la necropole de Pontecagnano, situee a environ 70 km de Naples et datant de l'Age du Fer (IVe s. av. J.-C.). La blessure, creee par la penetration de la pointe, n'a pas determine la mort de l'individu : le corps etranger est reste fiche dans l'os longtemps apres le traumatisme comme le montre une nouvelle formation osseuse autour de la lesion. L'etude radiographique permet de reconstituer la dynamique du traumatisme

Research paper thumbnail of Studio delle entesopatie in una antica popolazione campana (VII-III sec. a.C.)

The Authors aim of this research was to test a method designed to study the enthesopathies of an ... more The Authors aim of this research was to test a method designed to study the enthesopathies of an ancient population. This method was applied to 215 individuals; 126 males, and 89 females, from the Pontecagnano necropolis near Salerno (VII-III sec. B.C.) The enthesopathies of 36 muscles and 3 ligaments have been investigated classifying their different degrees of expression. The differential frequency by side, sex, and age was also analyzed. The observations revealed some interesting discoveries on the populations' way of life and on the validity and limits of the tested method. In particular, the present enthesopathies' study, put in evidence a society divided into classes, and confirms its utility in the reconstruction of ancient populations' way of life and their socio-economic context.

Research paper thumbnail of Strategie per la stima dei dati mancanti in misure antropometriche

Since many statistical analysis procedures request the observations' completeness, in the pre... more Since many statistical analysis procedures request the observations' completeness, in the presence of findings greatly damaged on which the detection of the osteometric points is hard or impossible, we resort to the replacement of missing values or to the test of the detected data, through the plausible or expected values, derived from the parameters of the complete cases within such observations. The test of such a methodology has been carried on a group of 140 buried individuals with complete data (15 cranial measures), coming from necropolis of the Iron Age, heterogeneous regarding the gender, and geographical locations. For the valuations of the missing values, a technique analogous to the EM (Extimation Maximization) has been applied, restricted, however, only to individuals with shorter Euclidean or Mahalanobis distance (Multiple Regression on Nearly: RN). Such a procedure has reached better results comparing to the EM one.

Research paper thumbnail of Analisi osteo-odontologica per un tentativo di evidenziazione di relazioni di parentela negli inumati di un'area sepolcrale isolata (VI-V sec. a.C.) della necropoli campana di Pontecagnano

The funerary area of Via Firenze in Pontecagnano (Salerno), located east of the wider urban necro... more The funerary area of Via Firenze in Pontecagnano (Salerno), located east of the wider urban necropolis, is one its isolated suburban sector, and it was continuously used from the VIth to the Vth century b.C. According to the archaeological data, which makes presumable the existence, among the ones buried in this area, of social ties stronger than between them and the contemporary population, we have tried to bring out possible relationships, using rare dental and cranial morphological traits, namely characterised by a low impact in geographically close and contemporary populations. The information obtained with such methodological approach, whose importance has yet been limited by the bad state of conservation and by the incompleteness of the remains, corroborate the validity of such a method for this kind of researches.

Research paper thumbnail of Resti umani in una tomba neolitica della Grotta Pollera nel Finalese

L'intérêt de la découverte est double. Au point de vue palethnologique, parce que la sépultu... more L'intérêt de la découverte est double. Au point de vue palethnologique, parce que la sépulture comprend deux squelettes, l'un d'une jeune femme adulte et l'autre d'un enfant arrivé à terme. Il ne s'agirait pas, toutefois, d'une véritable sépulture double mais à interpréter ...

Research paper thumbnail of Lo scheletro n. 2 di età neolitica, rinvenuto all'"Arma di Nasino" in Val Pennavaira (Savona)

Research paper thumbnail of Un caso di osteoartrosi secondaria in un soggetto della necropoli campana di Pontecagnano

The necropolis of Pontecagnano, a town of the Sele plain, few kilometers far from Salerno, return... more The necropolis of Pontecagnano, a town of the Sele plain, few kilometers far from Salerno, returned thousands of graves (VII - beginning of III century b.C.). The grave 325, from which the analyzed subject comes, dates back to the V century b.C. The buried individual, an adult male aged 45, without the skull, shows on the skeletal remains a suspected osteoarthritis because of the following pathological characteristc of the skeleton: - osteophites diffuse on the upper and inferior margins of the last two thoracic vertebrae and of the third and fourth lumbar vertebra; - osteophitic protrusions of the second and third lumbar vertebra faced each other on the left margin; - anterior osteophitic marginal lip on the left of the first sacral vertebra. Bony proliferations are combined on the tendon implantations towards exerted force, taken as bygone enthesopathies: - big osteophitic back spur on the right olecranon; bony proliferation on the right and left tibial tuberosity proximally direc...

Research paper thumbnail of Proposta di un metodo per il rilievo delle entesopatie

A new method for the survey of the enthesopathies is presented. It is based on observation and cl... more A new method for the survey of the enthesopathies is presented. It is based on observation and classification of expression degrees of forty muscles and some ligaments insertions on a remarkably large skeletal series (hundreds of cases belonging to individuals of different periods and geographical provenance). It is also suggested their grouping in seven muscular skeletal districts having the same functional meaning. The aim of the work is making the survey more precise and less complex the analysis of this kind of data, considering that they are useful for the social and economical organisation's reconstruction of the ancient populations of which we can study the remains.

Research paper thumbnail of Studio degli effetti della deformazione cranica sull’apparato masticatorio in una serie di crani peruviani antichi

Research paper thumbnail of Studio delle entesopatie in una antica popolazione campana (VII-III sec. a.C.)

Archivio Per L Antropologia E La Etnologia, 2007

Research paper thumbnail of Proposta di un metodo per il rilievo delle entesopatie

Archivio Per L Antropologia E La Etnologia, 2006

Research paper thumbnail of Studio degli effetti della deformazione cranica sull’apparato masticatorio in una serie di crani peruviani antichi

Archivio Per L Antropologia E La Etnologia, 2006

Research paper thumbnail of Necropoli di Pontecagnano: aspetti biologici della fase terminale dell'antico insediamento campano. Analisi della mortalità

Archivio Per L Antropologia E La Etnologia, 1998

Necropoli di Pontecagnano: aspetti biologici della fase terminale dell'antico insediamento c... more Necropoli di Pontecagnano: aspetti biologici della fase terminale dell'antico insediamento campano. Analisi della mortalità. R BIGAZZI ...

Research paper thumbnail of Il cranio mesolitico n. 19 della Caverna delle Arene Candide (Liguria)

Archivio Per L Antropologia E La Etnologia, 1987

Research paper thumbnail of Lo scheletro n. 2 di età neolitica, rinvenuto all'"Arma di Nasino" in Val Pennavaira (Savona)

Rivista Di Scienze Preistoriche, 1974

Research paper thumbnail of Analisi osteo-odontologica per un tentativo di evidenziazione di relazioni di parentela negli inumati di un'area sepolcrale isolata (VI-V sec. a.C.) della necropoli campana di Pontecagnano

Archivio Per L Antropologia E La Etnologia, 2004

Research paper thumbnail of A Bronze Javelin Point in a Femur from the Necropolis of Pontecagnano. (Salerno, Southern Italy, IV Century BC)

Anthropological Science, 1999

We describe the right femur of an adult male from grave 4141 of the Pontecagnano Necropolis (Sale... more We describe the right femur of an adult male from grave 4141 of the Pontecagnano Necropolis (Salerno, IV century BC). The cortical surface of the bone is raised around a bronze mass visible on the bone surface at the level of the lesser trochanter at the central area of the anterior surface of the femoral shaft. Around the mass there is new bone, which presents some microscopic evidence of inflammation. X-ray analysis reveals that the mass, which measures 2cm in length, is the cone shaped posterior part of a javelin tip, directed upwards, and with the tip folded. Therefore, it appears that the javelin entered near the inguinal plica and struck the anterior surface of the femoral neck from below. This injury could have occurred if the aggressor struck the victim, who was likely on horseback, from below. The roentgenograms also show a well developed reactive bone around the bronze projectile. Both the macroscopic aspects of the injury and its radiographic picture indicate that the victim survived for a considerable time following his unusual injury.

Research paper thumbnail of Lo scheletro n. 2 di età neolitica, rinvenuto all'"Arma di Nasino" in Val Pennavaira (Savona)

Rivista di scienze preistoriche, 1974

Research paper thumbnail of A Bronze Javelin Point in a Femur from the Necropolis of Pontecagnano. (Salerno, Southern Italy, IV Century BC)

Anthropological science, 1999

We describe the right femur of an adult male from grave 4141 of the Pontecagnano Necropolis (Sale... more We describe the right femur of an adult male from grave 4141 of the Pontecagnano Necropolis (Salerno, IV century BC). The cortical surface of the bone is raised around a bronze mass visible on the bone surface at the level of the lesser trochanter at the central area of the anterior surface of the femoral shaft. Around the mass there is new bone, which presents some microscopic evidence of inflammation. X-ray analysis reveals that the mass, which measures 2cm in length, is the cone shaped posterior part of a javelin tip, directed upwards, and with the tip folded. Therefore, it appears that the javelin entered near the inguinal plica and struck the anterior surface of the femoral neck from below. This injury could have occurred if the aggressor struck the victim, who was likely on horseback, from below. The roentgenograms also show a well developed reactive bone around the bronze projectile. Both the macroscopic aspects of the injury and its radiographic picture indicate that the victim survived for a considerable time following his unusual injury.

Research paper thumbnail of Contribution to the Knowledge of the Late Epigravettian Human Remains from Arene Candide Cave (Liguria, Italy) : A Peculiar-Shaped Skull

Homo-journal of Comparative Human Biology, 1987

Extr. de res. d'A. L'objet de cette etude est un crâne de l'Epigravettien final retro... more Extr. de res. d'A. L'objet de cette etude est un crâne de l'Epigravettien final retrouve dans la grotte des Arene Candide (...) pendant les fouilles effectuees par Cardini dans les annees 40. Le materiel, date fin IX-X millenaire a. C., comprend la face superieure presque complete, la mandibule, les dents et le crâne neural fragmentaire et tres incomplet. (...) La caracteristique la plus evidente de ce crâne est l'exceptionelle longueur glabella opisthocranion, due a un allongement extraordinaire de l'ecaille occipitale. (...) Messeri (1980) a attribue cette particularite a une deformation artificielle du type circulaire oblique, qui aurait ete produite intentionnellement par des bandeaux serres autour du front et de la nuque. Un nouvel examen de cet aspect important, fonde sur les rares parties reconstruites de facon fiable, revele l'absence de direction oblique vers le haut de l'ecaille occipitale qui est typique de la deformation (...)

Research paper thumbnail of Un caso di traumatismo da punta di bronzo alla radice dell'arto inferiore in un individuo dell'età del Ferro da Pontecagnano (Salerno, IV secolo a.C.)

Les auteurs etudient la presence d'une pointe metallique dans le femur droit d'un adulte ... more Les auteurs etudient la presence d'une pointe metallique dans le femur droit d'un adulte mâle exhume de la tombe n°4141 de la necropole de Pontecagnano, situee a environ 70 km de Naples et datant de l'Age du Fer (IVe s. av. J.-C.). La blessure, creee par la penetration de la pointe, n'a pas determine la mort de l'individu : le corps etranger est reste fiche dans l'os longtemps apres le traumatisme comme le montre une nouvelle formation osseuse autour de la lesion. L'etude radiographique permet de reconstituer la dynamique du traumatisme

Research paper thumbnail of Studio delle entesopatie in una antica popolazione campana (VII-III sec. a.C.)

The Authors aim of this research was to test a method designed to study the enthesopathies of an ... more The Authors aim of this research was to test a method designed to study the enthesopathies of an ancient population. This method was applied to 215 individuals; 126 males, and 89 females, from the Pontecagnano necropolis near Salerno (VII-III sec. B.C.) The enthesopathies of 36 muscles and 3 ligaments have been investigated classifying their different degrees of expression. The differential frequency by side, sex, and age was also analyzed. The observations revealed some interesting discoveries on the populations' way of life and on the validity and limits of the tested method. In particular, the present enthesopathies' study, put in evidence a society divided into classes, and confirms its utility in the reconstruction of ancient populations' way of life and their socio-economic context.

Research paper thumbnail of Strategie per la stima dei dati mancanti in misure antropometriche

Since many statistical analysis procedures request the observations' completeness, in the pre... more Since many statistical analysis procedures request the observations' completeness, in the presence of findings greatly damaged on which the detection of the osteometric points is hard or impossible, we resort to the replacement of missing values or to the test of the detected data, through the plausible or expected values, derived from the parameters of the complete cases within such observations. The test of such a methodology has been carried on a group of 140 buried individuals with complete data (15 cranial measures), coming from necropolis of the Iron Age, heterogeneous regarding the gender, and geographical locations. For the valuations of the missing values, a technique analogous to the EM (Extimation Maximization) has been applied, restricted, however, only to individuals with shorter Euclidean or Mahalanobis distance (Multiple Regression on Nearly: RN). Such a procedure has reached better results comparing to the EM one.

Research paper thumbnail of Analisi osteo-odontologica per un tentativo di evidenziazione di relazioni di parentela negli inumati di un'area sepolcrale isolata (VI-V sec. a.C.) della necropoli campana di Pontecagnano

The funerary area of Via Firenze in Pontecagnano (Salerno), located east of the wider urban necro... more The funerary area of Via Firenze in Pontecagnano (Salerno), located east of the wider urban necropolis, is one its isolated suburban sector, and it was continuously used from the VIth to the Vth century b.C. According to the archaeological data, which makes presumable the existence, among the ones buried in this area, of social ties stronger than between them and the contemporary population, we have tried to bring out possible relationships, using rare dental and cranial morphological traits, namely characterised by a low impact in geographically close and contemporary populations. The information obtained with such methodological approach, whose importance has yet been limited by the bad state of conservation and by the incompleteness of the remains, corroborate the validity of such a method for this kind of researches.

Research paper thumbnail of Resti umani in una tomba neolitica della Grotta Pollera nel Finalese

L'intérêt de la découverte est double. Au point de vue palethnologique, parce que la sépultu... more L'intérêt de la découverte est double. Au point de vue palethnologique, parce que la sépulture comprend deux squelettes, l'un d'une jeune femme adulte et l'autre d'un enfant arrivé à terme. Il ne s'agirait pas, toutefois, d'une véritable sépulture double mais à interpréter ...

Research paper thumbnail of Lo scheletro n. 2 di età neolitica, rinvenuto all'"Arma di Nasino" in Val Pennavaira (Savona)

Research paper thumbnail of Un caso di osteoartrosi secondaria in un soggetto della necropoli campana di Pontecagnano

The necropolis of Pontecagnano, a town of the Sele plain, few kilometers far from Salerno, return... more The necropolis of Pontecagnano, a town of the Sele plain, few kilometers far from Salerno, returned thousands of graves (VII - beginning of III century b.C.). The grave 325, from which the analyzed subject comes, dates back to the V century b.C. The buried individual, an adult male aged 45, without the skull, shows on the skeletal remains a suspected osteoarthritis because of the following pathological characteristc of the skeleton: - osteophites diffuse on the upper and inferior margins of the last two thoracic vertebrae and of the third and fourth lumbar vertebra; - osteophitic protrusions of the second and third lumbar vertebra faced each other on the left margin; - anterior osteophitic marginal lip on the left of the first sacral vertebra. Bony proliferations are combined on the tendon implantations towards exerted force, taken as bygone enthesopathies: - big osteophitic back spur on the right olecranon; bony proliferation on the right and left tibial tuberosity proximally direc...

Research paper thumbnail of Proposta di un metodo per il rilievo delle entesopatie

A new method for the survey of the enthesopathies is presented. It is based on observation and cl... more A new method for the survey of the enthesopathies is presented. It is based on observation and classification of expression degrees of forty muscles and some ligaments insertions on a remarkably large skeletal series (hundreds of cases belonging to individuals of different periods and geographical provenance). It is also suggested their grouping in seven muscular skeletal districts having the same functional meaning. The aim of the work is making the survey more precise and less complex the analysis of this kind of data, considering that they are useful for the social and economical organisation's reconstruction of the ancient populations of which we can study the remains.

Research paper thumbnail of Studio degli effetti della deformazione cranica sull’apparato masticatorio in una serie di crani peruviani antichi

Research paper thumbnail of Studio delle entesopatie in una antica popolazione campana (VII-III sec. a.C.)

Archivio Per L Antropologia E La Etnologia, 2007

Research paper thumbnail of Proposta di un metodo per il rilievo delle entesopatie

Archivio Per L Antropologia E La Etnologia, 2006

Research paper thumbnail of Studio degli effetti della deformazione cranica sull’apparato masticatorio in una serie di crani peruviani antichi

Archivio Per L Antropologia E La Etnologia, 2006

Research paper thumbnail of Necropoli di Pontecagnano: aspetti biologici della fase terminale dell'antico insediamento campano. Analisi della mortalità

Archivio Per L Antropologia E La Etnologia, 1998

Necropoli di Pontecagnano: aspetti biologici della fase terminale dell'antico insediamento c... more Necropoli di Pontecagnano: aspetti biologici della fase terminale dell'antico insediamento campano. Analisi della mortalità. R BIGAZZI ...

Research paper thumbnail of Il cranio mesolitico n. 19 della Caverna delle Arene Candide (Liguria)

Archivio Per L Antropologia E La Etnologia, 1987

Research paper thumbnail of Lo scheletro n. 2 di età neolitica, rinvenuto all'"Arma di Nasino" in Val Pennavaira (Savona)

Rivista Di Scienze Preistoriche, 1974

Research paper thumbnail of Analisi osteo-odontologica per un tentativo di evidenziazione di relazioni di parentela negli inumati di un'area sepolcrale isolata (VI-V sec. a.C.) della necropoli campana di Pontecagnano

Archivio Per L Antropologia E La Etnologia, 2004

Research paper thumbnail of A Bronze Javelin Point in a Femur from the Necropolis of Pontecagnano. (Salerno, Southern Italy, IV Century BC)

Anthropological Science, 1999

We describe the right femur of an adult male from grave 4141 of the Pontecagnano Necropolis (Sale... more We describe the right femur of an adult male from grave 4141 of the Pontecagnano Necropolis (Salerno, IV century BC). The cortical surface of the bone is raised around a bronze mass visible on the bone surface at the level of the lesser trochanter at the central area of the anterior surface of the femoral shaft. Around the mass there is new bone, which presents some microscopic evidence of inflammation. X-ray analysis reveals that the mass, which measures 2cm in length, is the cone shaped posterior part of a javelin tip, directed upwards, and with the tip folded. Therefore, it appears that the javelin entered near the inguinal plica and struck the anterior surface of the femoral neck from below. This injury could have occurred if the aggressor struck the victim, who was likely on horseback, from below. The roentgenograms also show a well developed reactive bone around the bronze projectile. Both the macroscopic aspects of the injury and its radiographic picture indicate that the victim survived for a considerable time following his unusual injury.