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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 154 (2024): Archivio per l'Antropologia e la Etnologia

Published November 19, 2024

Issue Description

The volume collects papers and book reviews related to the topics covered by the Journal

Table of Contents

Research Papers

The colonial face casts of Nello Puccioni: an emblematic case from Italy's fascist period
Francesca Bigoni, Fausto Barbagli, Fabio Di Vincenzo
3-17
DOI: https://doi.org/10.36253/aae-3084
Analisi di resti scheletrici umani da siti risalenti al tardo Neolitico e all'età del Rame della provincia di Bergamo
Laura Bonfanti, Domenico Lo Vetro, †Raffaella Poggiani Keller, Margherita Vanni, Stefania Vai, David Caramelli, Jacopo Moggi Cecchi
19-34
DOI: https://doi.org/10.36253/aae-3085
Forensic Facial Approximation and Archaeology: the case of Carmilla, the «Vampire of Venice»
Matteo Borrini
35-50
DOI: https://doi.org/10.36253/aae-3086
Il serpente fra mito, rito e tradizione. Note a partire da due coltelli con motivi ofidici
Anna Maria Cardini
51-67
DOI: https://doi.org/10.36253/aae-3087
Keepers of memories. Pre-Columbian Peruvian workbaskets in the Anthropology and Ethnology Museum of Florence
Giulia Dionisio
69-81
DOI: https://doi.org/10.36253/aae-3088
Mantegazza pop. Dall'Heracleum Mantegazzianum di Sommier & Levier a The return of the Giant Hogweed dei Genesis e oltre
Simone Fagioli
83-97
DOI: https://doi.org/10.36253/aae-3089
The Secular Trend in Sicily. Proposal for Long Bones Measures and Statures open access databases
Gabriele Lauria
99-111
DOI: https://doi.org/10.36253/aae-3090
Margaret Mead: un percorso antropologico contemporaneo
Silvia Lelli
113-127
DOI: https://doi.org/10.36253/aae-3091
Analisi biologiche dei resti scheletrici di San Giuseppe da Copertino
Francesco Mallegni, Gabriele Mallegni
129-142
DOI: https://doi.org/10.36253/aae-3092
Severe gout and its treatment in an early 18th century Southern German monk: palaeopathology and archaeology
Andreas G. Nerlich, Stephanie Panzer, Bernhard Häck, Oliver K. Peschel, Raffaella Bianucci
143-160
DOI: https://doi.org/10.36253/aae-3093
Le collane degli Ainu nella raccolta di Fosco Maraini al Museo di Antropologia di Firenze
Maria Gloria Roselli
161-176
DOI: https://doi.org/10.36253/aae-3095
Tarquinia scomparsa: progetto di virtualizzazione 3D e analisi storico archeologica dell'ipogeo 1824 in località Calvario (Necropoli dei Monterozzi)
Vera Zanoni, Salvatore Ficarra
177-194
DOI: https://doi.org/10.36253/aae-3096
Ripensare l'Africa. La collezione di Ernesto Brissoni al Museo di Antropologia e Etnologia di Firenze
Monica Zavattaro
195-211
DOI: https://doi.org/10.36253/aae-3097

Book Reviews

Book Reviews
Editorial Board
213-220
DOI: https://doi.org/10.36253/aae-3099
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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