The Italian Cultural Culture of Montreal, in collaboration with the Departement of Anthropology of the University of Montreal, is pleased to present the conference of Prof. Fabio Negrino (University of Genoa): The origin of Liguria. New studies and researches on the Italian Paleolithic.
Wednesday May 9 2018, 6pm Entrance free
Italian Cultural Institute of Montreal
1200 Av. Dr Penfield
Conference in Italian
Starting from recent research in the archaeological sites of Riparo Mochi and Riparo Bombrini (in particular, the archaeological sites of Balzi Rossi, between Ventimiglia and the border with France; and, the Veirana Weapon, in Val Neva, Albenga hinterland), Prof. Negrino will spread both on the lives of the last men of Neanderthal who lived in Liguria, and on the first Homo Sapiens, our ancestors, lived over 40,000 years ago. As repeatedly affirmed by the same Prof. Negrino, Liguria “boasts the presence of numerous sites referable to the most ancient ages of the European history, dating back to the long Paleolithic period”, a circumstance this revealed by the most recent research activity carried out on the site by the international scientific community”.
Fabio Negrino is a researcher at the University of Genoa, where he teaches Prehistory and Protohistory. He obtained his PhD in prehistoric archaeology at the University of Rome “La Sapienza”. He graduated in classical literature and specialized in archaeology, and obtained a postgraduate scholarship at the Faculty of Humanities of the University of Pisa. He has dealt with different aspects of the prehistoric and protohistoric research, from the lower Paleolithic to the age of the metals, deepening both the more strictly cultural and the environmental problems. He has participated in numerous archaeological excavations in Italy and abroad. It is currently involved in two projects: the first, concerning the extinction of the Neanderthalians and the origin and diffusion of anatomically modern man (excavations at the Bombrini Shelter and the Veirana Weapon, in Liguria); the second, instead, the study of the population of the Ligurian-Emilian Apennines during prehistoric times, with particular attention to the extraction and exploitation of siliceous raw materials (excavation at Ronco del Gatto, in Emilia Romagna).
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