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Knowledge of glass trading in protohistoric Southern Italy has been limited by a lack of archeometrical data available to date, preventing comparison with the well-known Northern Italian context. The aim of the present work is to help fill the data gap for Southern Bronze-Iron Age vitreous items and enable a general overview of protohistoric Italian glass supply routes.

The Medieval period in Europe was a time of unprecedented social complexity and significant social and political
change that had an impact on human diets. The present study aims to use stable isotope analysis from bone
proteins to explore the diets of humans (n=76) and fauna (n=5) from the Medieval town of Leopoli-Cencelle
(VT, Italy). The town was occupied between the 9th–15th centuries CE, however, the analysed remains date to
the Late Medieval period (12th–15th centuries CE). Historical sources provide some information about the inhabitants

The article presents a brief overview of the recent discoveries at the site of Arslantepe (Malatya, SE Turkey), from the archaeological campaigns carried out in the years 2017-2019. The fieldwork mainly concentrated in two excavation areas dated to the Late Chalcolithic and Iron Age. The architecture, pottery, sealings, archaeometallurgy and anthropologic remains retrieved are here presented.

The chapter analyzes the skeletal sample from the archaeological excavation at the Fewet necropolis (Libyan Sahara), dated to the Garamantian times. 33 burials were excavated and the skeletal sample represents one of the most relevant corpus for the study of inhumations and population in the Libyan Sahara, in a span of time from the 5th century BC to the 3rd aD.

In facing the investigation of a migrant population as the Lombards, it is never simple nor intuitive to collect all available sources. The Lombards started their departure from Scoringa, a small island close to the coast of Germany. European burial contexts testify their path across the North of Europe to Hungary, the ancient Roman region of Pannonia. As reported in Historia Langobardorum by Paul the Deacon, in 568 AD this population crossed the Italian boundary to occupy its territories. From this moment, the interaction with the inhabitants and land-use began.