Science: Archaeology: Regional: Europe: Italy

An international collaborative project investigates Monte Polizzo, an early Iron Age settlement in the NW of Sicily. Participants, landscape survey, fieldwork, finds and archaeobotony.

The University of Cambridge is investigating the archaeological history of the Troina region in Sicily. The team, regional survey and analysis, excavations at Casa Sollima - a prehistoric house.

Footsteps of Man Archaeological Society is investigating prehistoric petrogyphs in the Alps. Clickable map leads to images. Descriptions of sites and periods.

Includes: 1500+ pages of rock art information,images, descriptions, discussion, and links.

Alberto Vaudagna's description of the archaeology, history and geology of this area in Piedmont, with images and bibliography. Includes a 2nd century BCE gold mine and Protohistoric rock art.

Attempt to answer whether the Roman poet and the satirist Horace live in a modest farmhouse, as he tells us in his writings, or in a 20,000-square-foot villa, which most archaeologists have attributed to him.

Provides documentary about Oetzi, the Iceman. Includes transcripts of BBC documentery.

Research overview about the iceman provided by the anatomical institute of Innsbruck.

From the BBC, the last two meals eaten by the 5,300-year-old iceman, dubbed Oetzi, have been revealed by scientists.

From the Telegraph, a series of prehistoric stone structures, reminiscent of Stonehenge but taller and possibly earlier, have been located 3,500ft above sea level on a mountain in Calabria, southern Italy.

From the Independent, Iceman bore traces of the blood of four other men on his weapons and clothes, three of whom he had killed or wounded.

From BBC, Italian scientist says he has found a carved stone head that is 200,000 years old.

From Discovery Channel, two sets of DNA detectives prepare to put Christopher Columbus' finally to rest.

Pictures and background material about Oetzi, the iceman, from the museum where he is exhibited.

Capo Alfiere is the name of a Neolithic site located on a small headland on the eastern coast of Calabria.

The Phoenician and Punic town stands on a hill whose history dates back to the Neolithic (as the presence of the Domus de Janas witnesses) and after to the Nuragic Age.