ABSTRACT – In recent years, Italian field archaeology has displayed a growing interest in civic engagement. Several ongoing excavation projects have shown both benefits and drawbacks of developing a closer collaboration with…
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Exploring the interface between landscape archaeology and contemporary society. Back to community(-ies)
ABSTRACT – This paper intends to explore issues related to rural landscapes as a common good and the significance of the micro-regional or community scale in terms of their great potential to…
“Museums without walls” and sustainable development in Jordan. Some thoughts from the Madaba Regional Archaeological Museum Project
This article reviews current strategies for the protection of cultural heritage in Jordan and reports on a new Italian American-Jordanian project, which aims at developing a new regional archaeological museum for the Governorate of Madaba, central Jordan, which may serve as an educational tool and a springboard for local development and sustainable tourism.
Agamemnon’s version
All that is left of him is his proud, regal face forever stuck in gold, and the epithet “wide-ruling,” that Homer used to define the man’s haughty, proud spirit. Yet, for his latest book published by Einaudi, Giulio Guidorizzi has chosen Agamemnon’s ‘case’, as the lens through which he describes the Homeric world, its heroes and its values.
Memory and Earthquake: the Pilastri Excavation Project (Emilia Romagna, Italy) toward a shared community archaeology approach
This is the case of the Pilastri excavation project which started without a clear public engagement strategy but is now pointing toward a more participative and structured one.
Watching the world with Blu’s eyes
ABSTRACT – Blu is a short animated film by artist Andrea Camerini aimed to promote the System of Museums and Parks of the Livorno Province: a really new and powerful way to foster the love of our local wonders.
The monuments men of Libya
With Daesh militia at their heels, a handful of brave Libyan archaeologists completed the excavation of the Haua Fteah cave in Cyrenaica, symbol of the prehistoric population of North Africa. Thus a piece of our history was preserved.
Light on the new Salinas museum
Archeostorie asked historian and archaeologist Flavia Frisone to describe the new Salinas Museum and how the citizens of Palermo welcomed its opening.
