Exhibition

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November 2024 - 2 February 2025

Nogarole Rocca

CONNESSI | Interazioni millenarie di una necropoli'

Former Oratory of San leonardo in Nogarole Rocca, Verona

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'Connected. Millennial interactions of a necropolis'

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More than 40 burials dating back to the III-II millennium BC on an area of 12,800 square meters in the provinces of Verona, Rovigo and Vicenza in the Municipality of Nogarole Rocca. An extraordinary prehistoric and protohistoric necropolis, which probably extended over an even larger area is the protagonist of this exhibition.  The Ancestors Project contributed a significant amount of expertise and data to this event.

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New paper published

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A dietary meta-analysis of stable isotope data from the Neolithic to the Iron Age in Italy​

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Our isotopes team has just published a new paper in Quaternary Science Reviews Led by PhD student Martina Farese, this paper builds on her previous work to synthesise the existing published isotopic data for prehistoric Italy, published last year as an Open Access dataset. This paper combines the carbon and nitrogen isotopic data from Neolithic to Iron Age sites across the Italian peninsula to implement a new meta-analysis of trends in diet across this 6000-year stretch of Prehistory. We observe a relatively stable predominance of plant proteins, with isotopic variations primarily dictated by sociocultural changes, starting from the introduction of the “Neolithic package” that was reflected in a similar isotopic signature throughout the Peninsula. In Italy, the introduction of millets in the Bronze Age, focused on the Po plain in an area of particular population growth, reflects a distinction to the broader dietary patterns in Europe at this time. The results of this study show a diverse isotopic scenario (figure below) that represents the many populations and environments characteristic of the Italian Peninsula. This paper also highlights the presence of several gaps in the Italian isotopic landscape, showing areas where future research could focus.​

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