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Artefact's name: Incised pebble with wolf images |
| Object type: Amulet |
| Chronology: 20.000 - 10.000 bc |
| Museum of: Museo Nazionale Preistorico Etnografico L. Pigorini |
| Period: Late Epigravettian |
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The pebbele carved with the figure of the wolf is probably the masterpiece found in Grotta Polesini (Roma). The marks the marks that covered this figure are referable to cult activities finalized to propitiate hunt. |
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Artefact's name: Impressed ware with sun and two figures in adorati |
| Object type: Vessel/Anphora |
| Chronology: 7.000 - 3.500 bc |
| Museum of: Museo Nazionale Preistorico Etnografico L. Pigorini |
| Period: Early Neolithic |
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Large ovoidal shaped jar with four small horizontal handles, decorated with cardial impressions to represent a stylized man in worship, some spikes and the sun . |
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Artefact's name: Bone pendant with circular indentations |
| Object type: Jwellery |
| Chronology: 7.000 - 3.500 bc |
| Museum of: Museo Nazionale Preistorico Etnografico L. Pigorini |
| Period: Middle Neolithic |
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Rectangular fragment of a small plate made out of bone, decorated with several lines of holes.
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Artefact's name: Pintadera |
| Object type: Tool |
| Chronology: 7.000 - 3.500 bc |
| Museum of: Museo Nazionale Preistorico Etnografico L. Pigorini |
| Period: Middle Neolithic |
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Oval shaped, quite elongated pintadera made out of a black clay.The pintaderas are traditionally interpreted as tattoo instruments, but they could be also textile stamps or systems of reconnaissance in collective owens. |
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Artefact's name: Bull’s shaped handle cup |
| Object type: Vessel/Anphora |
| Chronology: 2.000 - 0 bc |
| Museum of: Museo Nazionale Preistorico Etnografico L. Pigorini |
| Period: Late Bronze Age |
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Hemispherical shaped bronze cup with a vertical handle sourmonted by a bull's head.
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Artefact's name: Enigmatic tablets from Polada 2 |
| Object type: Other |
| Chronology: 2.000 - 0 bc |
| Museum of: Museo Nazionale Preistorico Etnografico L. Pigorini |
| Period: Early Bronze Age |
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tablets with impressions. This kind of tablets are interpreted by most scholars as part of a cult practice. |
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Artefact's name: Statuette of Favella |
| Object type: Human figurine |
| Chronology: 7.000 - 3.500 bc |
| Museum of: Museo Nazionale Preistorico Etnografico L. Pigorini |
| Period: Early Neolithic |
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From the Early Neolithic village of Favella comes a set of pottery statuettes with a special emphasis on the sexual aspects of the motherhood |
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Artefact's name: Enigmatic tablets from Polada 1 |
| Object type: Other |
| Chronology: 2.000 - 0 bc |
| Museum of: Museo Nazionale Preistorico Etnografico L. Pigorini |
| Period: Early Bronze Age |
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tablets with impressions. This kind of tablets are interpreted by most scholars as part of a cult practice. |
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Artefact's name: Bell Beaker Ware cup |
| Object type: Vessel/Anphora |
| Chronology: 3.500 - 2.000 bc |
| Museum of: Museo Nazionale Preistorico Etnografico L. Pigorini |
| Period: Late Eneolithic Period |
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Short Bell Beaker style decorated cup, recovered from the Fosso Conicchio grave. |
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Artefact's name: Marmotta Venus |
| Object type: Human figurine |
| Chronology: 7.000 - 3.500 bc |
| Museum of: Museo Nazionale Preistorico Etnografico L. Pigorini |
| Period: Early Neolithic Period |
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The so-called Marmotta’s Venus, a female carved stone figurine, was found by the underwater excavations in the village. |
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Artefact's name: Venus of Savignano |
| Object type: Human figurine |
| Chronology: 20.000 - 10.000 bc |
| Museum of: Museo Nazionale Preistorico Etnografico L. Pigorini |
| Period: Late Paleolithic Period |
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The Savignano’s Venus is the Italian most famous prehistoric female figurine. |
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Artefact's name: Enigmatic tablets from Polada 3 |
| Object type: Other |
| Chronology: 3.500 - 2.000 bc |
| Museum of: Museo Nazionale Preistorico Etnografico L. Pigorini |
| Period: Early Bronze Age |
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tablets with impressions. This kind of tablets are interpreted by most scholars as part of a cult practice. |
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Artefact's name: Bell Beaker Cup from Santa Cristina di Fiesse |
| Object type: Vessel/Anphora |
| Chronology: 40.000 - 20.000 bc |
| Museum of: Museo Nazionale Preistorico Etnografico L. Pigorini |
| Period: Late Eneolithic |
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Cup characterized by its bell shaped feature, open mouthed rim, globular body and curved base. The body presents typical Bell Beaker decorations. |
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Artefact's name: Statuette of Favella B |
| Object type: Human figurine |
| Chronology: 7.000 - 3.500 bc |
| Museum of: Museo Nazionale Preistorico Etnografico L. Pigorini |
| Period: Early Neolithic |
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The statuette representing a female figure was recovered mutilated at the basin level. |
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