Papers by Silvia Bandera
Food and wine in ancient Verona. Cibo e vino nella Verona antica. I, 2024
Il presente contributo illustra i risultati delle analisi archeozoologiche effettuate nell’ambito... more Il presente contributo illustra i risultati delle analisi archeozoologiche effettuate nell’ambito del progetto "Food and wine in ancient Verona" sulla fauna rinvenuta all’interno di alcune sepolture nelle necropoli di età romana che si allineano lungo la via Postumia (Porta Palio, Via Albere/Spianà, Spianà) e a Gazzo Veronese in località Ronchetrin.
Aquileia. L'area delle mura e del mercato tardoantichi. Lo scavo negli archivi, 2023
I resti faunistici in esame sono stati recuperati nel 1989 nell'edificio del mercato 1, nel pozzo... more I resti faunistici in esame sono stati recuperati nel 1989 nell'edificio del mercato 1, nel pozzo individuato al centro del suo lastricato settentrionale. I bovini sono la specie maggiormente presente seguiti da basse percentuali di equini, ovicaprini, suini, cervo, orso. Le tracce di macellazione sono standardizzate e rivolte al depezzamento delle carcasse, mentre gli scarti venivano qui conservati e utilizzati per l'artigianato.
Il castello di Terrossa. Archeologia di un paesaggio della Val D’Alpone (VR), 2021
Il lotto faunistico oggetto di studio proviene dal Castello di Terrossa di Roncà (VR), raccolto d... more Il lotto faunistico oggetto di studio proviene dal Castello di Terrossa di Roncà (VR), raccolto durante le campagne di scavo effettuate dall’Università degli Studi di Verona tra il 2012 e il 2014. Il campione è stato raccolto a vista senza l’ausilio di setacci. Il sito è stato frequentato in Età del Bronzo ed Età del Ferro fino al II sec. d.C. e in età medievale,
dalla fine del X sec. al XVI sec.
Il valore dei gesti e degli oggetti. Monete e altri elementi in contesti funerari, 2023
This paper presents data on faunal remains from funerary contexts
in the Roman era and Late Antiq... more This paper presents data on faunal remains from funerary contexts
in the Roman era and Late Antiquity located in northern
Italy. At present, this is a preliminary overview of the subject,
since proper zooarchaeological studies have only been carried
out at nine necropolises located mainly in Trentino-Alto Adige/
Südtirol and Veneto, and three individual cases in Lombardy,
Emilia-Romagna and Friuli Venezia Giulia. Continuing study
of these finds will help enrich our understanding of funerary
rituals in Roman society, and the transformations that occurred
during the transition to the Early Middle Ages.
ABSTRACT Uomo della Roccia (The Stone Man) is a huge calcareous monolith arising in the hilly lan... more ABSTRACT Uomo della Roccia (The Stone Man) is a huge calcareous monolith arising in the hilly landscape of the Italian Prealps between Lake Garda and River Brenta. The area has always been a natural passage between the alpine world and the Po plain, and the big stone surely was a land-mark useful for people living in the zone. Therefore, when the team of the Agno-Leogra Project made the first surface survey around the monolith, it was not surprised to find archaeological artefacts. The following surveys and excavations discovered several interesting archaeological areas. In the slopes under the monolith an agrarian landscape made of terraces covered a previous occupation in which the remains of a structure and a big amount of ceramic and lithic artefacts were pinpointed. Uphill from the monolith impressive stone ramparts were detected, while in close proximity clearings suited to hunting and comfortable caves had attracted human exploitation. A series of specialistic studies is collected in this book, dealing with the troubled geology of the area and the analysis of the findings -ceramics and lithic tools, a unique metal artefact, human and animal bone fragments, palaeobotanical remains- as well as the spatial analysis of the relationships of the site with the contemporaneous settlements of the area. The results of the study as a whole show that the bulk of occupation was in an advanced stage of Neolithic age, when the site was devoted to animal -especially sheep and goat- husbandry, agriculture, hunting and fishing, but interestingly -as far as the metal artefact is concerned- it was inserted in a network of contacts reaching up to the Balcans. The earliest terraces downstream the monolith can probably be dated to this age. In the Bronze age Uomo della Roccia was occupied by a seasonal exploitation, involving both men and women in pasture and wood management. The big stone was attended also in late Roman period, and again in early and late Middle ages until modern times. Each occupation left its traces in the landscape, that is described in the book also in the more recent use. A fascinating archaeological route is being designed by archaeologists and locals working together. Aim of the project is inviting people to know and love this land and to love and enhance it.
Fasti On Line Documents & Research, 2021
Scavi di Nora X. Nora. Il tempio romano. VOLUME II.2 -I MATERIALI ROMANI E GLI ALTRI REPERTI, 2021
La necropoli dell'età del Bronzo di Scalvinetto di Legnago (Verona), 2020
Atti 8° Convegno Nazionale di Archeozoologia (Lecce, 2015), 2019
The “Monumental Complex” located on the plateau of the Civita at Tarquinia (VT, Italy), is an imp... more The “Monumental Complex” located on the plateau of the Civita at Tarquinia (VT, Italy), is an important Etruscan site dated between the 10th and the 2nd centuries BC. Excavations (1989-2011 years) were carried directed by M. Bonghi Jovino and G. Bagnasco Gianni who teach Etruscology at the University of Milan. The aim of this study is to analyse some cut marks recorded that were identified on the dog bones found in areas G, H, HM, L, M, O. These are added to the results of the animal remain study carried out by C. Sorrentino in 1986 and by E. Bedini in 1997, in order to better understand the role of dog in Etruscan ritual practices, as food source, and as raw material for the production of bone tools. The results are also compared with those from other Etruscan sites in which dog in present in burials or in ritual contexts.
Books by Silvia Bandera
SAP Società Archeologica SRL, 2020
ABSTRACT
Uomo della Roccia (The Stone Man) is a huge calcareous monolith arising in the hilly lan... more ABSTRACT
Uomo della Roccia (The Stone Man) is a huge calcareous monolith arising in the hilly landscape of the Italian Prealps between Lake Garda and River Brenta. The area has always been a natural passage between the alpine world and the Po plain, and the big stone surely was a land-mark useful for people living in the zone. Therefore, when the team of the Agno-Leogra Project made the first surface survey around the monolith, it was not surprised to find archaeological artefacts. The following surveys and excavations discovered several interesting archaeological areas. In the slopes under the monolith an agrarian landscape made of terraces covered a previous occupation in which the remains of a structure and a big amount of ceramic and lithic artefacts were pinpointed. Uphill from the monolith impressive stone ramparts were detected, while in close proximity clearings suited to hunting and comfortable caves had attracted human exploitation.
A series of specialistic studies is collected in this book, dealing with the troubled geology of the area and the analysis of the findings -ceramics and lithic tools, a unique metal artefact, human and animal bone fragments, palaeobotanical remains- as well as the spatial analysis of the relationships of the site with the contemporaneous settlements of the area.
The results of the study as a whole show that the bulk of occupation was in an advanced stage of Neolithic age, when the site was devoted to animal -especially sheep and goat- husbandry, agriculture, hunting and fishing, but interestingly -as far as the metal artefact is concerned- it was inserted in a network of contacts reaching up to the Balcans. The earliest terraces downstream the monolith can probably be dated to this age.
In the Bronze age Uomo della Roccia was occupied by a seasonal exploitation, involving both men and women in pasture and wood management. The big stone was attended also in late Roman period, and again in early and late Middle ages until modern times. Each occupation left its traces in the landscape, that is described in the book also in the more recent use.
A fascinating archaeological route is being designed by archaeologists and locals working together. Aim of the project is inviting people to know and love this land and to love and enhance it.
FOLD&R Archaeological Survey by Silvia Bandera
FOLD&R Fasti On Line Documents & Research, Archaeological Survey, 14, 2021
In this paper we present the preliminary results of the 2019 field survey conducted in the framew... more In this paper we present the preliminary results of the 2019 field survey conducted in the framework of the project “Beyond the border. Study and enhancement of the highlands between Veneto and Trentino”. The aim of this overarching project, which applies a multidisciplinary approach, is threefold: to detect in this mountain landscape the main activity areas and reconstruct possible connections between them; to analyse the long-term relationships between Trentino and Prealpine Veneto from prehistory to the present day; and to study the evolving function of this frontier area during periods of conflict/interaction. Several methods were employed to shed light on the above-mentioned research aims: field-walking survey, analysis of aerial photos, ethnographic and archival research, GIS-based landscape analysis and predictive modelling, and LiDAR data for feature detection in wooded areas. The combined use of all these approaches allowed us to identify long-term exploitation activities, which are documented also by both the ethnographic and archaeological data. The major periods of conflict in these areas are also highlighted in the archaeological record. The 2019 survey campaign opens up new research directions such as the future excavation of Bronze Age occupation zones; network and connectivity analysis between Prealpine Veneto and Trentino; hillforts and their interaction with the highlands.
Conference Presentations by Silvia Bandera
La grotta, denominata localmente, Buso delle Anguane, si trova non lontana dal monolite di Uomo d... more La grotta, denominata localmente, Buso delle Anguane, si trova non lontana dal monolite di Uomo della Roccia presso Muzzolon di Cornedo Vicentino (VI), sotto il quale è situato un sito neolitico scoperto dagli scavi diretti da Mara Migliavacca. Nel 2019 lo scavo della grotta ha portato in luce alcuni focolari, ceramica invetriata inquadrabile tra XIV e XVI secolo, resti umani e faunistici tra cui lo scheletro quasi completo di un gatto. Le fasi di occupazione della grotta risultano probabilmente occasionali o stagionali e sono tutte di età storica. Nel presente contributo si espongono le analisi tafonomiche e paleopatologiche eseguite sullo scheletro del gatto qui rinvenuto.
The cave, locally called “Buso delle Anguane”, is located near the monolith of Uomo della Roccia at Muzzolon (Cornedo Vicentino, VI), where a Neolithic site was discovered in the Agno-Leogra project directed by Mara Migliavacca. In 2019 the excavation of the cave unveiled hearths, glazed pottery, human and faunal remains including the almost complete skeleton of a cat. The phases of occupation date from 14th to 16th century and are probably occasional or seasonal. This poster exposed the taphonomic and paleopathological analyzes performed on the skeleton of the cat found here.
Conference by Silvia Bandera
Programma e libro di abstract
Dalla fine del XX secolo, abbiamo assistito al consolidamento di un nuovo paradigma in archeologi... more Dalla fine del XX secolo, abbiamo assistito al consolidamento di un nuovo paradigma in archeologia promosso da Bruno Boulestin e Herni Duday e noto come "archéothanatologie". Questa nuova concettualizzazione dello studio del mondo funerario delle società che ci hanno preceduto comporta un dialogo diretto tra ambiti scientifici spesso non collegati tra loro, come l'archeologia, l'antropologia biologica, l'antropologia sociale e l'etnologia. Questa unione di prospettive non solo ci permette di ottenere una visione molto più completa dei complessi processi pre-deposizionali, deposizionali e post-deposizionali che caratterizzano la sfera funeraria delle società antiche, ma genera anche nuove interpretazioni di contesti che sono già stati scavati e studiati, prestando più volte attenzione ai piccoli dettagli.
Anche lo studio delle monete in contesti funerari classici e medievali ha subito una costante revisione negli ultimi decenni, aprendo a molteplici interpretazioni di questo uso rituale tradizionalmente legato al mito di Caronte. Diversi congressi convocati negli ultimi anni (Neuchâtel nel 1995, Salerno nel 1997, Atene nel 2017) hanno fornito molte prospettive sulla varietà di circostanze che circondano il gesto di depositare una o più monete in una tomba. Lo studio sistematico e dettagliato di questo piccolo dettaglio, che può passare inosservato agli archeologi e agli storici, ci aiuta a comprendere una moltitudine di rituali legati a periodi specifici, aree geografiche, etnie, famiglie, età e sesso delle persone sepolte. Come per le monete, anche l'esame e lo studio dettagliato di altri piccoli oggetti depositati con il defunto in epoca romana e medievale fornisce informazioni fondamentali per comprendere la mentalità degli individui attraverso i riti legati al mondo della morte. Gioielli, elementi decorativi, ceramiche, alimenti, resti faunistici, resti floreali e persino elementi epigrafici fanno parte della moltitudine di gesti che amici e parenti compivano al momento di dare l'addio ai rispettivi defunti; la loro analisi è quindi fondamentale per entrare in contatto con il complesso mondo delle idee, che in molte occasioni sfugge alle evidenze documentate nella documentazione materiale.
Nell'ambito del progetto MORTI "Money, Rituality and Tombs in northern Italy during Late antiquity" (n. 101025031 H2020-MSCA-IF-2020), sviluppato presso il Dipartimento di Beni Culturali dell'Università di Padova, è stata organizzata una giornata di studio dal titolo "Piccoli dettagli: monete e altri oggetti in contesti funerari". L'intento è quello di riunire diversi ricercatori per fornire nuove letture su quei piccoli dettagli realizzati, e/o oggetti depositati, sulle tombe di epoca classica e medievale; e di aprire nuovi dibattiti su alcune pratiche funerarie, ruoli di genere e segmenti di popolazione che sono stati poco studiati.
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dalla fine del X sec. al XVI sec.
in the Roman era and Late Antiquity located in northern
Italy. At present, this is a preliminary overview of the subject,
since proper zooarchaeological studies have only been carried
out at nine necropolises located mainly in Trentino-Alto Adige/
Südtirol and Veneto, and three individual cases in Lombardy,
Emilia-Romagna and Friuli Venezia Giulia. Continuing study
of these finds will help enrich our understanding of funerary
rituals in Roman society, and the transformations that occurred
during the transition to the Early Middle Ages.
Books by Silvia Bandera
Uomo della Roccia (The Stone Man) is a huge calcareous monolith arising in the hilly landscape of the Italian Prealps between Lake Garda and River Brenta. The area has always been a natural passage between the alpine world and the Po plain, and the big stone surely was a land-mark useful for people living in the zone. Therefore, when the team of the Agno-Leogra Project made the first surface survey around the monolith, it was not surprised to find archaeological artefacts. The following surveys and excavations discovered several interesting archaeological areas. In the slopes under the monolith an agrarian landscape made of terraces covered a previous occupation in which the remains of a structure and a big amount of ceramic and lithic artefacts were pinpointed. Uphill from the monolith impressive stone ramparts were detected, while in close proximity clearings suited to hunting and comfortable caves had attracted human exploitation.
A series of specialistic studies is collected in this book, dealing with the troubled geology of the area and the analysis of the findings -ceramics and lithic tools, a unique metal artefact, human and animal bone fragments, palaeobotanical remains- as well as the spatial analysis of the relationships of the site with the contemporaneous settlements of the area.
The results of the study as a whole show that the bulk of occupation was in an advanced stage of Neolithic age, when the site was devoted to animal -especially sheep and goat- husbandry, agriculture, hunting and fishing, but interestingly -as far as the metal artefact is concerned- it was inserted in a network of contacts reaching up to the Balcans. The earliest terraces downstream the monolith can probably be dated to this age.
In the Bronze age Uomo della Roccia was occupied by a seasonal exploitation, involving both men and women in pasture and wood management. The big stone was attended also in late Roman period, and again in early and late Middle ages until modern times. Each occupation left its traces in the landscape, that is described in the book also in the more recent use.
A fascinating archaeological route is being designed by archaeologists and locals working together. Aim of the project is inviting people to know and love this land and to love and enhance it.
FOLD&R Archaeological Survey by Silvia Bandera
Conference Presentations by Silvia Bandera
The cave, locally called “Buso delle Anguane”, is located near the monolith of Uomo della Roccia at Muzzolon (Cornedo Vicentino, VI), where a Neolithic site was discovered in the Agno-Leogra project directed by Mara Migliavacca. In 2019 the excavation of the cave unveiled hearths, glazed pottery, human and faunal remains including the almost complete skeleton of a cat. The phases of occupation date from 14th to 16th century and are probably occasional or seasonal. This poster exposed the taphonomic and paleopathological analyzes performed on the skeleton of the cat found here.
Conference by Silvia Bandera
Anche lo studio delle monete in contesti funerari classici e medievali ha subito una costante revisione negli ultimi decenni, aprendo a molteplici interpretazioni di questo uso rituale tradizionalmente legato al mito di Caronte. Diversi congressi convocati negli ultimi anni (Neuchâtel nel 1995, Salerno nel 1997, Atene nel 2017) hanno fornito molte prospettive sulla varietà di circostanze che circondano il gesto di depositare una o più monete in una tomba. Lo studio sistematico e dettagliato di questo piccolo dettaglio, che può passare inosservato agli archeologi e agli storici, ci aiuta a comprendere una moltitudine di rituali legati a periodi specifici, aree geografiche, etnie, famiglie, età e sesso delle persone sepolte. Come per le monete, anche l'esame e lo studio dettagliato di altri piccoli oggetti depositati con il defunto in epoca romana e medievale fornisce informazioni fondamentali per comprendere la mentalità degli individui attraverso i riti legati al mondo della morte. Gioielli, elementi decorativi, ceramiche, alimenti, resti faunistici, resti floreali e persino elementi epigrafici fanno parte della moltitudine di gesti che amici e parenti compivano al momento di dare l'addio ai rispettivi defunti; la loro analisi è quindi fondamentale per entrare in contatto con il complesso mondo delle idee, che in molte occasioni sfugge alle evidenze documentate nella documentazione materiale.
Nell'ambito del progetto MORTI "Money, Rituality and Tombs in northern Italy during Late antiquity" (n. 101025031 H2020-MSCA-IF-2020), sviluppato presso il Dipartimento di Beni Culturali dell'Università di Padova, è stata organizzata una giornata di studio dal titolo "Piccoli dettagli: monete e altri oggetti in contesti funerari". L'intento è quello di riunire diversi ricercatori per fornire nuove letture su quei piccoli dettagli realizzati, e/o oggetti depositati, sulle tombe di epoca classica e medievale; e di aprire nuovi dibattiti su alcune pratiche funerarie, ruoli di genere e segmenti di popolazione che sono stati poco studiati.
dalla fine del X sec. al XVI sec.
in the Roman era and Late Antiquity located in northern
Italy. At present, this is a preliminary overview of the subject,
since proper zooarchaeological studies have only been carried
out at nine necropolises located mainly in Trentino-Alto Adige/
Südtirol and Veneto, and three individual cases in Lombardy,
Emilia-Romagna and Friuli Venezia Giulia. Continuing study
of these finds will help enrich our understanding of funerary
rituals in Roman society, and the transformations that occurred
during the transition to the Early Middle Ages.
Uomo della Roccia (The Stone Man) is a huge calcareous monolith arising in the hilly landscape of the Italian Prealps between Lake Garda and River Brenta. The area has always been a natural passage between the alpine world and the Po plain, and the big stone surely was a land-mark useful for people living in the zone. Therefore, when the team of the Agno-Leogra Project made the first surface survey around the monolith, it was not surprised to find archaeological artefacts. The following surveys and excavations discovered several interesting archaeological areas. In the slopes under the monolith an agrarian landscape made of terraces covered a previous occupation in which the remains of a structure and a big amount of ceramic and lithic artefacts were pinpointed. Uphill from the monolith impressive stone ramparts were detected, while in close proximity clearings suited to hunting and comfortable caves had attracted human exploitation.
A series of specialistic studies is collected in this book, dealing with the troubled geology of the area and the analysis of the findings -ceramics and lithic tools, a unique metal artefact, human and animal bone fragments, palaeobotanical remains- as well as the spatial analysis of the relationships of the site with the contemporaneous settlements of the area.
The results of the study as a whole show that the bulk of occupation was in an advanced stage of Neolithic age, when the site was devoted to animal -especially sheep and goat- husbandry, agriculture, hunting and fishing, but interestingly -as far as the metal artefact is concerned- it was inserted in a network of contacts reaching up to the Balcans. The earliest terraces downstream the monolith can probably be dated to this age.
In the Bronze age Uomo della Roccia was occupied by a seasonal exploitation, involving both men and women in pasture and wood management. The big stone was attended also in late Roman period, and again in early and late Middle ages until modern times. Each occupation left its traces in the landscape, that is described in the book also in the more recent use.
A fascinating archaeological route is being designed by archaeologists and locals working together. Aim of the project is inviting people to know and love this land and to love and enhance it.
The cave, locally called “Buso delle Anguane”, is located near the monolith of Uomo della Roccia at Muzzolon (Cornedo Vicentino, VI), where a Neolithic site was discovered in the Agno-Leogra project directed by Mara Migliavacca. In 2019 the excavation of the cave unveiled hearths, glazed pottery, human and faunal remains including the almost complete skeleton of a cat. The phases of occupation date from 14th to 16th century and are probably occasional or seasonal. This poster exposed the taphonomic and paleopathological analyzes performed on the skeleton of the cat found here.
Anche lo studio delle monete in contesti funerari classici e medievali ha subito una costante revisione negli ultimi decenni, aprendo a molteplici interpretazioni di questo uso rituale tradizionalmente legato al mito di Caronte. Diversi congressi convocati negli ultimi anni (Neuchâtel nel 1995, Salerno nel 1997, Atene nel 2017) hanno fornito molte prospettive sulla varietà di circostanze che circondano il gesto di depositare una o più monete in una tomba. Lo studio sistematico e dettagliato di questo piccolo dettaglio, che può passare inosservato agli archeologi e agli storici, ci aiuta a comprendere una moltitudine di rituali legati a periodi specifici, aree geografiche, etnie, famiglie, età e sesso delle persone sepolte. Come per le monete, anche l'esame e lo studio dettagliato di altri piccoli oggetti depositati con il defunto in epoca romana e medievale fornisce informazioni fondamentali per comprendere la mentalità degli individui attraverso i riti legati al mondo della morte. Gioielli, elementi decorativi, ceramiche, alimenti, resti faunistici, resti floreali e persino elementi epigrafici fanno parte della moltitudine di gesti che amici e parenti compivano al momento di dare l'addio ai rispettivi defunti; la loro analisi è quindi fondamentale per entrare in contatto con il complesso mondo delle idee, che in molte occasioni sfugge alle evidenze documentate nella documentazione materiale.
Nell'ambito del progetto MORTI "Money, Rituality and Tombs in northern Italy during Late antiquity" (n. 101025031 H2020-MSCA-IF-2020), sviluppato presso il Dipartimento di Beni Culturali dell'Università di Padova, è stata organizzata una giornata di studio dal titolo "Piccoli dettagli: monete e altri oggetti in contesti funerari". L'intento è quello di riunire diversi ricercatori per fornire nuove letture su quei piccoli dettagli realizzati, e/o oggetti depositati, sulle tombe di epoca classica e medievale; e di aprire nuovi dibattiti su alcune pratiche funerarie, ruoli di genere e segmenti di popolazione che sono stati poco studiati.