“Rock art manifestations in Latin America”: an amazing documentary not to be missed!

Posted on 21 Ottobre 2021 by admin

Presented to Arkeomount.com by Aline Lara Galicia | University of Sevilla

Rock art is one of the most powerful marker of our prehistory. A key element to consider when studying an environment as it is a crucial part of the human landscape. Paying a great attention to rock art studies, we got in touch with Aline Lara Galicia of the Universidad de Sevilla asking her to present us the recently released documentary “Rock art manifestations in Latin America“.
Aline, who is part of the “Instituto de Estudios sobre América Latina” and the “Grupo de Investigación ATLAS” (Seminario Permanente Manifestaciones Rupestres en América Latina) was so kind to write down a post for arkeomount.com!
This is the link to watch the full documentary online : https://youtu.be/tkZgbvMvn6E and following is Aline’s post.
Thx Aline!

Note that we are trying to get in touch with each single researcher involved in this project as to present on this blog some further insights coming from the project!

Cover of “Manifestaciones Rupestres en América Latina” – June 2021 – Edition: Instituto Universitario de Estudios sobre América Latina. Universidad de SevillaPublisher: Instituto de Estudios sobre América Latina (Universidad de Sevilla) –
Editor: Aline Lara GaliciaISBN: 978-84-09-31817-9

Eduardo Galeano once said, “Many small people, in small places, doing small things, can change the world”. And I am one of those who think that indeed those small people -unique- can do the same from their research. How could the world be changed? Well, through creativity and scientific dissemination in which everyone contributes, proposes and creates; but also trying to reach society. That everyone understands how great is everything that precedes us and has been created by human beings. Rock art is just a small sample, but curiously, perhaps the most difficult to investigate, to understand and also to conserve.

The history of rock art, or more commonly known as rock art, goes back tens of thousands of years. The possibility of being able to understand this symbolism or what they could have meant first brings us closer to knowing the past and the shared elements of human culture and cultures. In Latin America, these are social representations, made in specific places and moments. It tells us about ceremonies, thoughts about shamanism, writing, myths and cosmologies.

With the documentary we present the most recent research on rock art in countries such as Mexico, Peru, Venezuela and Argentina in the voice of the researchers themselves. We tried to make the reading for a wider audience that likes this part of the history of mankind. Society today, for example, in Spain knows a lot about European rock art, since it is one of its most important prehistoric representatives. However, they do not know that there is rock art evidence in Latin America and that they are as important and amazing as Altamira in Spain, or Lascaux or Chauvet in France or Val Camonica in Italy.

Through this work we wanted to point out not only the diverse investigations but also that rock art in Latin America can still approach the meanings, thanks to the reminiscences that have remained in the memory of the native peoples. In spite of the long temporality, it is evident that the interpretations, especially those of the XVI and XVI centuries, can embrace the narratives of cultural identity and the past of these peoples. Many represent one of the largest concentrations of rock art where the forms and figures represent the mirror of a cosmovision of the past of all these cultures.

The project arises from our most recent teaching innovation project from the University of Seville “Rock art manifestations in Latin America” which began with an online seminar in 2020, but now we have been expanding regions, activities and joint publications, always with the aim of disseminating. It is an initiative of several Latin American and European institutions.

Great researchers participate such as Ramon Viñas Vallverdú, Moisés Valadez Moreno, Yuri de la Rosa Gutiérrez, Sandra L. Ramírez Barrera, Luis A. Martos López; all of them from the National Institute of Anthropology and History in Mexico, Leonardo Páez from Venezuela; Aïcha Bachir Bacha from the EHESS in France, Marcela Sepúlveda Retamal from the Pontificia Universidad Católicaa de Chile and a whole team in Argentina with Christian Vitry Di Bello director of the Tastil project, Bernardo Maltz, Gastón Vitry and Ana Paula Cevidanes from the Universities of Salta, Córdoba and Buenos Aires, the youngest of the project.
The project continues, the documentary is only a part of it. There are other activities with other researchers of great trajectory. And the web page is in process. Lastly, we have a project to create awareness of the faunal biodiversity in Latin America and the danger of extinction, from rock art. With success especially with children.
We are still small people but our work is to give some knowledge from the past to be able to act in the present.

Aline Lara Galicia
Instituto de Estudios sobre América Latina
Grupo de Investigación ATLAS
Seminario Permanente Manifestaciones Rupestres en América Latina
Universidad de Sevilla

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Teotihuacan: il LIDAR ci restituisce una grandiosa opera di allineamento astronomico

Posted on 24 Settembre 2021 by admin
Teotihuacan (Messico)
Credits: Image by Makalu from Pixabay

E’ recente la notizia che l’antico insediamento messicano di Teotihuacan possa essere molto più vasto di quanto noto ad oggi (a questo link trovate una fonte inglese).

Ancora una volta a consentire l’acquisizione di massicce informazioni in un tempo relativamente breve e senza scavare una sola buca, è una scansione effettuata con LIDAR (Light Detection and Ranging) combinata con sondaggi sul terreno e dati di precedenti mappature.
Il confronto tra l’antica Teotihuacan e l’odierna valle di Teotihuacan è spettacolare!
Si evince che Teotihuacan, tra gli anni 100 a.C. e 550 d.C., era una delle città più grandi del mondo antico. La tecnologia LIDAR, che sfrutta i riflessi della luce laser per individuare strutture nel sottosuolo, ha scoperto che il sito copriva 21 chilometri quadrati e il 65% delle aree urbane ha proprietà o caratteristiche allineate ortogonalmente entro tre gradi rispetto ai 15 gradi a est del nord astronomico (l’allineamento già noto e riconosciuto per Teotihuacan). Come le mura cittadine, anche i fiumi furono deviati secondo questo allineamento: sommati ai corsi dei canali artificiali, il totale dei corsi d’acqua della regione impattati da questa monumentale opera di allineamento astronomico, raggiungono la lunghezza di quasi 17 chilometri!
Stiamo cercando di metterci in contatto con i ricercatori che hanno lavorato sul campo e non mancheremo di farvi avere aggiornamenti sul tema!

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30 anni di Ötzi: la storia dell’uomo continua a sorprendere

Posted on 17 Settembre 2021 by admin
La ricostruzione dell’Uomo venuto dal ghiaccio al Museo Archeologico dell’Alto Adige (c) Museo Archeologico dell’Alto Adige 

Il 19 settembre 2021 saranno 30 anni dalla scoperta del corpo dell’uomo del Similaun – Ötzi – che per 5.000 anni si è conservato tra i ghiacci delle Alpi Venoste fino a quando la famiglia Simon di Norimberga non lo ha notato. Conservato dal 1998 presso il Museo Archeologico dell’Alto Adige a Bolzano, dove ancora oggi lo si può ammirare, Ötzi non è solo “un uomo dell’Età del Rame”, ucciso da un suo simile durante una battuta di caccia, ma è soprattutto un parente di tutti noi, che ci ha portato in regalo il nostro passato.
30 anni sono trascorsi e non sono mancati gli studi sul corpo, sui materiali, sull’alimentazione, sulle armi di Ötzi.
Grazie a lui si è affermata anche in Europa la bioarcheologia e alcune degli studi più sensazionali li abbiamo ripresi anche qui, su arkeomount, come nel 2014 quando lo studio sul DNA della mummia ha aperto nuovi scenari sulla linea genetica europea. Sappiamo che camminava molto, che i suoi attrezzi testimoniavano scambi commerciali su ampia scala in tutto il continente, che ha permesso a 800 studiosi di tutto il mondo di fare avanzamenti nella nostra conoscenza della preistoria. Qui un buon riassunto.

Nell’occasione di questi 30 anni dalla scoperta, sabato e domenica 18/19 settembre 2021, il Museo Archeologico dell’Alto Adige festeggerà questa ricorrenza con i suoi visitatori sui prati del Talvera, a soli 200 metri dal museo, con un festival archeologico gratuito che include anche l’ingresso al museo.
Per chi volesse avere una visione più ampia dei ritrovamenti di esseri umani preistorici tra i ghiacci del mondo, suggeriamo di guardare questa nostra intervista esclusiva al Prof. Chavez, protagonista nel 1995 insieme all’archeologo Reinhard del ritrovamento della mummia di Juanita. Intervista girata nel novembre del 2011 al Museo Santuary di Arequipa (Peru) di fronte a quella che forse è la più famosa mummia al mondo ritrovata nelle terre alte.

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DNFA #5 – Five questions to Betty Haoa Rapahango

Posted on 20 Luglio 2020 by admin

In 2011 she hosted us at the only museum in Chile where a Moai statue outside of Rapanui is. We are talking about Betty Haoa Rapahango, born in the Easter Island, who devoted her career to spread her native culture. She works at the Fonck Museum in Viña del Mar (Chile) and being a descendant of the only 122 natives survived in the Island, it was an honour to spoke to her.
We adapted a little bit the 2020 questions for her, who is not an archaeologist, but a very interesting person with a passion for mankind history!

A: Why did you choose to help other people to better understand your native culture?
BHR: It wasn’t really on purpose. Just as I was entering the library world, I began to realize that most of those who visited the Rapanui library did not know much about my culture. Then, I realized that, by showing them the evolution, development and decline of the island’s culture, they would better understand the Rapanui people who still exist today.

Betty Haoa, 2020

A: When did you understand that it was the right or the wrong choice?
BHR: It was given little by little, as more and more people visited the library and for several years I did not think about it.

A: Sometimes during hard times we think about giving up…You did not! You are still doing it! Why? I mean, what happened? Do you have a special “mantra” helping your balance, or did you have to struggle with someone convincing this person that going on was the best choice? Who? Your relatives? Yourself?… The final question is “what is your secret to keep on doing your job?”
BHR: In truth, I am a fan of Rapanui culture. Like everyone on the island. No Rapanui denies his culture, no matter how enormous the counterpart. I have never considered, nor will I do in the future, to stop helping those who need to study, understand or live in this Polynesian culture.

A: How do you spend your spare time when you are far from home?
BHR: I really like reading, so I take advantage of free time (and also air travel to Easter Island) to catch up on what’s new in books, magazines and newspapers.

A: Let’s suppose that you were not a “cultural expert”.. what is your job? policeman, farmer, superwoman?
BHR: What job would I have liked to have? Well, anyone who allowed me to travel around the world, what I already get as a researcher of my culture.

Thank you, Betty!

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DNFA #4– FIVE QUESTIONS TO STEFANO GRIMALDI

Posted on 12 Giugno 2020 by admin

Today we are happy to host Stefano Grimaldi (Italy), archaeologist, Associated Professor at Università degli studi di Trento (Trento, Italia) and President of the Istituto Italiano di Paleontologia Umana (Anagni, Italia).
We interviewed him in 2015 for the Italian magazine “Montagne 360” (Club Alpino Italiano) and today he is our host for the Do Not Feed the Archaeologists’ project!

Stefano Grimaldi, archaeologist

Why did you choose to become an archaeologist?
SG: Archaeology have chosen me. I started Economy and Finance studies but after three years I decided it was not for me. By chance some friends invited me to re-start my studies at the Humanities faculty (they were different times, by the way… we were not still addicted to technology, so we needed to talk with people to get information, ideas, …) and after a while I met the professor who became my teacher in archaeology. The more I studied with him, the more Archaeology embraced me.

When did you understand that it was the right or the wrong choice?
SG: Never! I am still figuring out; but I do not think this is the problem. More than a choice it was a good chance to live a life dedicated to what I really like: to travel around the world in order to have a larger glimpse over modern humanity.

Sometimes during hard times, we think about giving up…You did not! You are still an active archaeologist! Why? I mean, what happened? Do you have a special “mantra” helping your balance, or did you have to struggle with someone convincing this person that going on was the best choice? Who? Your relatives? Yourself?… The final question is “what is your secret to keep on digging?”
SG: Digging is fascinating, it is an exciting intellectual and physical activity. The boring side of our profession is bureaucracy. About one-third (probably more) of my working time is dedicated to fulfill endless forms, to discuss to administrative officials, to write complex reports just to have the permit to buy a simple pencil.

Stefano Grimaldi in an “off record” picture taken on the field!

How do you pass your spare time during the digging evenings (anyway while you are off from digging, but still far from home?)
SG:

There is no free time during the excavation time. After digging, we back home and, while someone prepare the meal for everybody, other people wash and clean the archaeological findings; after dinner, we check the documentation, draw the artefacts, and so on until midnight or later; at five a.m. we are ready for another excavation day…
OK! this is the situation that any field director is dreaming about. The truth is to have a pint of beer during a night out with the students.

Let’s suppose that you were not an archaeologist… what is your job? policeman, farmer, batman?…
SG: No way! It is very hard stuff to answer. But in my dreams… I have not a job: I am a prehistoric hunter!..

Thank you!

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DNFA #3 – Five questions to Ernesto Piana

Posted on 5 Giugno 2020 by admin

It’s high time to read Prof. Ernesto Piana (Argentina) retired archaeologist, former main researcher at CADIC/Conicet in Ushuaia and former Director of the Archaeological Project “Canal Beagle”. We visited him in October 2011, during “Ande 2011” project and we published plenty of posts thanks to his “lessons”!

1) Why did you chose to become an archaeologist?

EP: It looked to be a better than a bank cashier life. And also I was a country boy and archaeologists are the evolution of the field trackers. Reading more traces than formulas or papers.

2) When did you understand that it was the right or the wrong choice?

EP: AFTER RETIREMENT. Key word in this tricky question is the past tense “was”.  All along my career I asked myself “is this the right choice”. Only now I may  question “was it”.

Prof. Ernesto Piana during an hike – 2019

3) Sometimes during hard times we think about giving up…You did not! You are still an active archaeologist! Why? I mean, what happened? Do you have a special “mantra” helping your balance, or did you have to struggle with someone convincing this person that going on was the best choice? Who? Your relatives? Yourself?… The final question is “what is your secret to keep on digging?”
EP: I am retired but keep active. Why to keep researching? Main reason, curiosity. Second reason, because archaeology is the routine of astonishment. The other 98 reasons are too many to be detailed. Why to keep going to field work at 71 years old? Because of old students and other archaeologist invitations. And to have a friendly wine by the camps fire.

4) How do you pass your spare time during the digging evenings (anyway while you are off from digging, but still far from home?)
EP: Is there time to spare during field seasons? After hour of diggings includes conditioning the findings, go over the day’s recordings, cutting wood for fire, tent order, cleaning equipment, food preparing, discuss on the out comings, the blooming data and next day’s planning. But mainly having fun.

Prof. Ernesto Piana hiking in the mountains – 2019

5) Let’s suppose that you were not an archaeologist.. what is your job? policeman, farmer, batman?..
Graphic humorist. Or to be a land owner. A couple acres would be enough,… if being around the “Fontana di Trevi”!

Thank you, Ernesto!

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DNFA #2 – Five questions to Bruce Bradley

Posted on 3 Giugno 2020 by admin

Today let’s read Prof. Bruce Bradley (USA) – anthropologist and Emeritus Professor / University of Exeter – Department of Archaeology. He was mentioned in Arkeomount.com in 2012 when he published the book “Across Atlantic Ice” together with Dott. Dennis Stanford (Smithsonian Institution – Washington, D.C.). Today he is part of our Do Not Feed the Archaeologists! project!
Bruce runs also a great blog: check out www.primtech.rocks !

Prof. Bruce Bradley in Beijing – 2019

1) Why did you choose to become an archaeologist?

BB: From a very young age I was fascinated with things “Indian”, especially arrowheads and other ‘relics’. I was also keen on snakes, lizards, frogs and other small beasties and of course, like many kids- rocks. I was fortunate to be in a family that encouraged these interests and made opportunities to explore. The one key passion I had was wanting to make arrowheads but try as I might this eluded me until I was in High School. Our family moved from Michigan, where visibility of artifacts was very low to the Arizona desert where they were almost everywhere I looked. When I was ready to enroll in University, I wanted to become a herpetologist, but the science requirements were overwhelming. So, I decided on archaeology (anthropology). That was the beginning, and I am still at it.

2) When did you understand that it was the right or the wrong choice?
BB: I knew is was right from the day I realized I could make it my life’s path.

3)Sometimes during hard times, we think about giving up…You did not! You are still an active archaeologist! Why? I mean, what happened? Do you have a special “mantra” helping your balance, or did you have to struggle with someone convincing this person that going on was the best choice? Who? Your relatives? Yourself?… The final question is “what is your secret to keep on digging?”
BB: I have never lost my passion for discovery- things, ideas, people, places, etc. Archaeology has provided it all.

prof. Bruce Bradley in Brazil – 2016

4) How do you pass your spare time during the digging evenings (anyway while you are off from digging, but still far from home?)
BB. Most places I when go ‘on the road’ it is because I am either giving a knapping workshop or working on a research project where experimental archaeology is a primary method. So, I can usually be found busting rocks. When not doing that I enjoy the challenges of sport fishing. Check out my web page www.primtech.rocks

5) Let’s suppose that you were not an archaeologist.. what is your job? policeman, farmer, batman?..
BB: I can imagine I would have knuckled down and done the science to become a herpetologist. If that hadn’t happened, probably a stone mason.

Thank you, Bruce!

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DNFA #1 – Five questions to Teresa Michieli

Posted on 1 Giugno 2020 by admin

Prof. Teresa Michieli (Argentina) – archaeologist and former director of “Prof. Mariano Gambier” Museum in San Juan (Argentina), is the first hosted in this series of post related to the 2020 project “Do not feed the archaeologists!”. Prof. Michieli supported a lot “Ande 2011” project, nearly 10 years ago, leading us in the area of San Juan for one incredible week! Let’s know her better reading her 5 answers!

Prof. Teresa Michieli at Los Morillos cave (Ande 2011)


1) Why did you chose to become an archaeologist?

TM: I always liked research (about anything, I was a very curious girl and fanatically reading). When I studied archaeology in the Bachelor’s degree in History (early 1970s) I started to like the subject, but inside
I supposed it would be difficult to face it as a woman.
One class consisted of visiting a facility from the Inca period that was in excavation and there they allowed me to delve into a corner with the good luck that I found two ceramic shards. I ran to my archaeology professor and he I asked if that was Inca pottery and he answered yes. So I said, half in serious and half joking: “Ah! It means that I can be an archaeologist. ” I turned around and when I returned to my place the teacher said to me: “Are you serious?” I stayed motionless, still and surprised for a moment wondering inside me if he had really been serious. And I realized that it was so.
From then on I started working with said teacher until I received my degree and, because of his contacts, I came to San Juan where I continue working after 45 years.

2) When did you understand that it was the right or the wrong choice?
TM: When I graduated from university and moved, at 23, to live and work in another province with a great archaeologist (Mariano Gambier) and a great field for this activity, I felt it was the right choice and I have kept that taste and that same curiosity through the years.

3) Sometimes during hard times we think about giving up…You did not! You are still an active archaeologist! Why? I mean, what happened? Do you have a special “mantra” helping your balance, or did you have to struggle with someone convincing this person that going on was the best choice? Who? Your relatives? Yourself?… The final question is “what is your secret to keep on digging?”
TM: No, I did not give up, even in difficult times due to the complexity of the geography in where I worked or due to management and protection problems of the archaeological heritage while I was in charge of the Research Institute. Now retired, I am still an active archaeologist, although now with less haste and less responsibility, enjoying more free time and meetings with colleagues and friends.
I did not have to convince anyone of my decision. Both relatives and bosses and friends understood my choice and dedication perfectly well and even they accompanied and helped when necessary.
There is no secret to continue working in archaeology; is simply the interest in the subject and the eternal curiosity that appears when it presents something unthinkable and that manages to bring me back to the enthusiasm of my youth.

Prof. Teresa Michieli – 2019

4) How do you pass your spare time during the digging evenings (anyway while you are off from digging, but still far from home?)
TM: When I was young, in the long afternoons of isolated months in the high mountains, I used to knitting, generally small things because the transfer in horses does not allowed to carry a lot of luggage.
Currently, with another type of infrastructure and technology within reach, use my iPad to communicate with my family and stay up-to-date with news from the world.

5) Let’s suppose that you were not an archaeologist.. what is your job? policeman, farmer, batman?..

TM: If I had not been an archaeologist and historian, perhaps I would have been struck criminology … although I also always dreamed of being a writer (and although I am not able to write fiction, with the narrative of archaeology and history I have fulfilled part of my dream).

Prof. Michieli with Veronica and Massimo at Museo Gambier in 2011

Thank you Teresa!

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Tombe megalitiche con dromos: primi strumenti all’osservazione stellare? Di certo non erano solo tombe. Uno studio apre la questione.

Posted on 21 Luglio 2016 by admin

Cova de Daina- Andalusia (Spain) - foto Arkeomount

Finalmente qualcuno ci ha pensato. E ci sta facendo uno studio serio. Alcune costruzioni megalitiche, poi passate alla storia come tombe (perché così le abbiamo classificate) potrebbero essere state costruzioni con scopi diversi. Innanzitutto uno strumento per osservare il cielo, o meglio per consentire all’uomo di potenziare la propria vista al fine di scrutare meglio i copri celesti. Ma anche un luogo di iniziazione, in cui la connessione terra-cielo giocava un ruolo primario. E forse, aggiungiamo noi, un luogo di cura spirituale, e per sostenere questa nostra ipotesi, aggiungiamo a quanto riportiamo in seguito, il ricordo della pratica della incubazione che si prevedeva nei tempi antichi (diciamo almeno dall’età del Bronzo) la consuetudine a riposare al buio per tre giorni e tre notti al fine di ricevere un sogno rivelatore e guaritore. Anche nel medioevo questa pratica era usata. E non vi erano per forza costruzioni ad hoc, ma si usavano architetture i cui scopi erano altri, come i pozzi. Ricordiamo ad esempio il feroce tiranno Orsini che a Pitigliano (GR) faceva tale pratica prima di ogni battaglia, rifugiandosi nel pozzo del palazzo oggi detto Orsini.
Ma veniamo alla news. Uno studente inglese in Scienze e Tecnologie alla Nottingham Trent University, tale Kieran Simcox, ha proposto e ottenuto di iniziare una ricerca sulle tombe megalitiche, indagando in particolare quelle con struttura a tumulo o comunque dotate di un dromos (corridoio stretto e lungo che porta alla tomba a camera costruita con grandi blocchi ad incastro). L’ipotesi è che la pratica potesse consistere nel rimanere sdraiati all’interno della “tomba” e godere da quella posizione solo della porzione di cielo che l’apertura tra le pietre consentiva. La news che riportiamo da sciencedaily.com sottolinea come questa ricerca ipotizzi che i tali siti possano “essere stati usati per riti di passaggio, dove gli iniziati avrebbero dovuto passare la notte all’interno della tomba, senza luce naturale.
L’idea alla base è che la struttura della “tomba” possa essere stata uno strumento per l’osservazione del cielo: “E’ una sorpresa che nessuno abbia studiato a fondo la questione”, ha dichiarato il futuro dott. Simcox. Ad esempio, sottolinea lo stesso studioso, bisogna considerare l’impatto che ha il colore del cielo notturno sulla retina, e su quanto questo aspetto determini ciò che l’occhio nudo riesce a vedere.
Ne è nato un progetto seguito anche dalla Università gallese di Trinity Saint David che inizierà la sua analisi da siti portoghesi come quello di Seven-Stone Antas datato al 6000 BP. Il Dr Fabio Silva, a capo del team, intende investigare la correlazione con la stella Aldebaran, nella costellazione del Toro, che forse era un marcatore annuale o stagionale. La sua apparizione poteva aiutare a decidere quando iniziare una migrazione, il pascolo o la semina. Teniamo conto che la stessa stella non sarebbe visibile ad occhio nudo, ma sarebbe invece visibile per chi dovesse trascorrere una intera notte al buio della tomba. Insomma, il buio allena l’occhio, aiuta la mente e lo spirito. Conoscere ed applicare questo aspetto è da considerarsi a tutti gli effetti una tecnologia.

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A breve sarà analizzato nei dettagli un cervello Sapiens del Paleolitico

Posted on 8 Luglio 2016 by admin

La grotta - Immagine tratta da belparcodelpollino.com

Questa è una breve news, un flash diremmo. Abbiamo appena intercettato su Repubblica una news davvero interessante che segnala come grazie ad un software Californiano sarà possibile ricostruire in 3D il cervello di un nostro antenato di 17mila anni fa.

La ricerca parte da una ricerca italiana, a cura di Fabio Martini, archeologo dell’Università di Firenze.

Il reperto base  è costituito dai resti di un bambino morto a soli 10 anni di vita e ritrovati nella Grotta del Romito, in Calabria. La news riporta le parole dello scienziato: “Attraverso l’utilizzo di tecnologie informatiche molto avanzate, dei software specifici che sono stati elaborati all’Università della California, è stato possibile ricostruire in 3D il cervello del bambino.Stiamo conducendo studi con tecnologie avanzate, come le costruzioni 3D e la scannerizzazione 3D (…). Per la prima volta c’è un prodotto attendibile sicuro che ci indica come era fatto un cervello di 17mila anni fa. E’ una scoperta sensazionale”.

Attendiamo curiosi.

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