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Archivio per l’Antropologia e la Etnologia is the official Journal of the Società Italiana di Antropologia e Etnologia (SIAE). The Archivio has been continuously published since its founding in 1871 as the first scientific journal wholly dedicated to anthropology. The journal publishes original contributions, which are rigorously peer-reviewed. Papers are accepted for publication in several languages, including English, Italian, French, and Spanish. The journal offers a critical space for the diffusion and discussion of anthropological research within a multidisciplinary framework, as envisioned by the founder of the journal Paolo Mantegazza. Topics range over the entire gamma of anthropological disciplines, including biological anthropology, paleontology, archaeology and prehistory, cultural anthropology, ethnology, museology, and linguistics. 

Current IssueVol 155 (2025): Archivio per l'Antropologia e la Etnologia

Published December 1, 2025

Issue Description

The volume collects research papers, brief reports, and book reviews related to the topics covered by the Journal 

Table of Contents

Research Papers

Note on Human Skeletal Remains from the Hellenistic necropolis of Galitta del Capitano (Sarno, Salerno, Italy)
Jade Armann
3-12
DOI: https://doi.org/10.36253/aae-3836
An assessment of different metrical methods of sex estimation using long bones
Jade Armann, Jacopo Moggi Cecchi
13-28
DOI: https://doi.org/10.36253/aae-3837
Lidio Cipriani and the rock art of Italian East Africa: images from Eritrea
Luca Bachechi
29-62
DOI: https://doi.org/10.36253/aae-3838
Adu from Nias: how sacred figures became subsumed into idols by missionaries and anthropologists
Francesca Bigoni, Fausto Barbagli, Roscoe Stanyon
63-82
DOI: https://doi.org/10.36253/aae-3839
Grotta dei Pipistrelli: osteological evidence of a young adult individual (Lucca, Italy)
Matilde Cannelli, Dario Ferrari, Luca Bachechi, Tommaso Mori
83-96
DOI: https://doi.org/10.36253/aae-3840
Anthropological research and 3D documentation: Tomb Y of the Church of St. Bartholomew in Caltavuturo, PA
Salvatore Ficarra, Serena Cesare, Valeria Cunzolo, Rosa Maria Cucco, Francesca Meli
97-115
DOI: https://doi.org/10.36253/aae-3841
Colonial vision and the decolonization of ethnography
Maurizio Martinelli
117-138
DOI: https://doi.org/10.36253/aae-3842
Sex estimation from talus and calcaneus in a Southern Italian sample: application of discriminant functions to the documented skeletal collection of the Museum of Anthropology and Ethnology of Florence
Rosa Perna, Tommaso Mori, Stella Erriu, Dario Ferrari, Giorgia Ciappi, Irene Dori, Alessandro Riga
139-157
DOI: https://doi.org/10.36253/aae-3843
The cognitive geography of the Anthropocene: evolutionary traps and the perception of ecological risk
Paolo Rognini
159-175
DOI: https://doi.org/10.36253/aae-3844
Rural and Urban: comparison of lumbar pathologies in two British medieval populations
Amy Woollin, Constantine Eliopoulos, Matteo Borrini
177-193
DOI: https://doi.org/10.36253/aae-3845

News and Annual Report

LibertÀrte exhibition. Prison at the Museum of Anthropology and Ethnology
Maria Gloria Roselli
195-203
DOI: https://doi.org/10.36253/aae-3847

Book Reviews

Primates in History, Myth, Art, and Science (edited by Cecilia Veracini and Bernard Wood) - Book Review
Francesco Scalfari, Valorine Cherop Chepkwony
205-207
DOI: https://doi.org/10.36253/aae-3848

Obituaries

Obituary of Augustin Kanyunyi Basabose 1963 - 2025
Luca Sineo
209-210
DOI: https://doi.org/10.36253/aae-3849
Obituary of Francesco Mallegni 1940-2025
Giandonato Tartarelli
211-213
DOI: https://doi.org/10.36253/aae-3850
Annual Reports of the Italian Society of Anthropology and Ethnology
Editorial Board
215-216
DOI: https://doi.org/10.36253/aae-3851
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The journal offers a critical space for the diffusion and discussion of anthropological research within a multidisciplinary framework, as envisioned by the founder of the journal Paolo Mantegazza. Topics range over the entire gamma of anthropological disciplines, including biological anthropology, paleontology, archaeology and prehistory, cultural anthropology, ethnology, museology, and linguistics. The Archivio per l’Antropologia e la Etnologia is dedicated to making significant contributions to the discussion of all anthropological topics critically important in an era of rapid change and globalization.

Editor in chief:

Giulia Dionisio, Italian Society of Anthropology and Ethnology, Florence (Italy)

ISSN (print): 0373-3009