This is the blog of the project "Neo-Innova: The diffusion of Neolithic in the Central-Western Mediterranean: agriculture, technological innovations and radiocarbon dating" (HAR2016-75201-P). This research project focuses on one of the main turning points of human history: the diffusion of Neolithic. Even if it is well established that the Near East was the first focus of the invention of farming, around X-IX milenium BC, the mechanisms and the paths of its spreading in the rest of the Mediterranean are yet to be unfolded. During the last decades, the origin of European Neolithic has been explained as result of a diffusion process through two main axes: a Northern one, crossing central Europe, and a Southern one along the Mediterranean coasts. The current project is aimed to analyse the process of Neolithic diffusion through the Central-Western Mediterranean through analysis of the techniques and tools associated with the crop-harvesting and -processing tools. Analysis of those tools has to be supported by an extensive program of radiocarbon dating and a cross-analysis of the crop-harvesting/14C with the information proceeding from the environmental/ecological, the technological and the cereals consumed.

Monday 12 August 2019

The Marmotta site in the spanish newspaper "La Razón"


This Monday a news about La Marmotta was published in the spanish newspaper "La Razón".

This work is possible thanks to the collaboration between Museo delle Civiltà - Museo preistorico etnografico «Luigi Pigorini and the CSIC (Spanish National Research Council) 

This work is supported by Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades and CSIC with the projects: 

- "La difusión del neolítico en el Mediterráneo centro-occidental: agricultura, innovaciones tecnológicas y carbono 14". Programa I+D (HAR2016-75201-P)
- "Expansión y desarrollo del neolítico en el Mediterráneo central: tecnología y producción de alimentos en el asentamiento lacustre de La Marmotta (Roma, Italia)". Proyectos Intramurales para Arqueología en el Exterior (201818008). 


We want to thank the work of the journalist Javier Ors


Mario Mineo
Niccolo Mazzucco
Juan F. Gibaja


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