Papers by Vincenzo d'Ercole
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Childhood in the Past, 2020
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L'arte della guerra nel mondo villanoviano 425 * Università degli Studi Gabriele D'Annunzio di Ch... more L'arte della guerra nel mondo villanoviano 425 * Università degli Studi Gabriele D'Annunzio di Chieti-Pescara. Ringrazio l'amica Valeria Acconcia, anche lei archeologa d'Adriatico e di Tirreno, vera allieva di Gippi, per la gentile premura e insistenza a farmi partecipare a questa iniziativa. La pigrizia e la timidezza mi fanno sembrare, spesso, ancora più orso di quello che sono.
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Gli Dei degli Italici : luoghi e forme di culto tra protostoria e storia nell'Italia medio-adriatica, 2017
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Lo spazio funerario in area abruzzese dal Bronzo finale all'età arcaica, 2015
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Frankfurter elektronische Rundschau zur Altertumskunde, 2020
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In this chapter we employ a multidisciplinary approach to the study of Iron Age Samnite ‘warrior ... more In this chapter we employ a multidisciplinary approach to the study of Iron Age Samnite ‘warrior burials’ from central Italy. Building upon previous studies, which suggested that high humeral asymmetry in mechanical strength can be used as a proxy for weapon training from adolescence, we analysed the degree and laterality of asymmetry in 216 male burials, as well as the typology and layout of weapons in 153 burials from the overall sample. The relationship between martial paraphernalia in graves and the participation of the deceased in martial activities, as inferred from biomechanical analysis, has provided valuable insights into the military practices of Iron Age communities and their social significance. The research has revealed that the weapons may have been placed in the graves of individuals that did not undertake intensive military training during their lives. This suggests that they may have been used to signal social affiliation in funerals rather than actual participation...
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Picenum and the Ager Gallicus at the Dawn of the Roman Conquest, 2020
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Mélanges de l’École française de Rome. Antiquité, 2003
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International Journal of Paleopathology, 2017
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ABSTRACT Changes in skeletal CSG robusticity and sociopolitical changes in central Italy Samnites... more ABSTRACT Changes in skeletal CSG robusticity and sociopolitical changes in central Italy Samnites (800-200 BC). VITALE S. SPARACELLO1, ALFREDO COPPA2 and VINCENZO D'ERCOLE3. 1Anthropology, The University of New Mexico, 2Biologia Umana, Università Sapienza di Roma, 3Archaeology, Ministero Beni Culturali, Roma. The purpose of this research is contrasting the inferences on past physical activity inferred from grave goods composition with actual humeral, femoral, and tibial mechanical properties. CSG properties were estimated in Samnite individuals (n=315) from theă necropolisă ofă Bazzanoă (δ’Aquila,ă Abruzzo, Central Italy) belonging to the Orientalizing- Archaic period (O-A; 800-600 BC, n=122), the Vth century (V SEC; 500-400 BC, n=40), and the Hellenistic period (ELL; 400-100 BC; n=111). The three periods correspond to generalized shifts in grave goods composition: in the O-A, male burials contain weapons such as swords and spears; in the V SEC, grave goods are rare; in the ELL, weapons virtually disappear and grave goods recall the Greek symposium tradition. At a sociopolitical level, it is believed that those cultural changes accompanied a transition from a paramount chiefdom to a democratic republic. We expected to find a diachronic decline in male humeral bilateral asymmetry, considered a proxy for unimanual weapon use. Results show a diachronic decrease in humeral asymmetry in males, with the O-A and V SEC males significantly more lateralized than ELL males P<0.01). In absence of subsistence changes, we can associate the diachronic decrease in male bilateral asymmetry with a generalized decrease in the use of unimanual weaponry. Interestingly, there are no historical accounts of large scale warfare waged by Samnites until the Hellenistic period. In this case, high lateralization seems to be correlated more with the symbolic importance of the warrior figure rather than the actual occurrence of large scale warfare. Hibben Foundation - University if New Mexico.
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American Journal of Physical Anthropology, 2014
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Bollettino di Archeologia, 1992
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OXBOW …, 1995
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