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<< Our Photo Pages >> Poggio Colla - Ancient Village or Settlement in Italy in Toscana

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Multi-periodSite Name: Poggio Colla Alternative Name: Mugello Valley
Country: Italy Region: Toscana Type: Ancient Village or Settlement
Nearest Town: Vicchio
Latitude: 43.924167N  Longitude: 11.480000E
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Poggio Colla submitted by Andy B : Excavations at the Poggio Colla Field School Image copyright Southern Methodist University (Vote or comment on this photo)
Poggio Colla is an Etruscan archaeological site located near the town of Vicchio in Tuscany, Italy. It was inhabitated by the early 7th century BCE. The settlement was "violently" destroyed in the late 3rd century BCE and rebuilt in the Hellenistic period.

The first excavations of Poggio Colla were directed by Francesco Nicosia from 1968 to 1972. Since 1995, the site has been excavated annually by the Mugello Valley Archaeological Project (MVAP) under the direction of Gregory Warden and Michael Thomas. MVAP is sponsored by Southern Methodist University and the University of Pennsylvania. Excavations at the site have revealed fortifications, a possible temple, and a necropolis.

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Ancient Images of a Mother Giving Birth Found by bat400 on Friday, 11 November 2011
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Another article on this find:

An international team of archaeologists has unearthed what might be the earliest representation of childbirth in western art, they announced today. Consisting of two images of a woman giving birth to a child, the intimate scene was found on a small fragment from a ceramic vessel that is more than 2,600 years old.
The image show the head and shoulders of a baby emerging from a mother. Portrayed with her face in profile and a long ponytail running down her back, the woman has her knees and one arm raised.

A fun loving and eclectic people who among other things taught the French how to make wine, the Romans how to build roads, and introduced the art of writing into Europe, the Etruscans began to flourish around 900 B.C., and dominated much of Italy for five centuries.
Since their puzzling, non-Indo-European language was virtually extinguished (they left no literature to document their society),the Etruscans have long been considered one of antiquity’s great enigmas. Indeed, much of what we know about them comes from their cemeteries: only the richly decorated tombs they left behind have provided clues to fully reconstruct their history.

Poggio Colla is one of the few sites offering insight of the Etruscan life in a non-funerary context. It spans most of Etruscan history, being occupied from the seventh to the second century B.C.

Centering on the acropolis, a roughly rectangular plateau, the site was also home to a sanctuary: numerous votive deposits indicate that for some part of its history, it was a sacred spot to a divinity or divinities.

The abundance of weaving tools and a stunning deposit of gold jewelry discovered in previous excavations, have suggested that the patron divinity may have been female.

In this view, the ancient depiction of childbirth becomes even more interesting, according to Greg Warden, professor and associate dean for academic affairs at the Meadows School of the Arts at SMU and a director of the Mugello Valley Archaeological Project.

"Might it have some connection to the cult, to the kind of worship that went on at the hilltop sanctuary?," Warden wondered.

Perkins speculated that the woman giving birth could be a representation of an Etruscan goddess, suggesting that Poggio Colla was the location of a cult-site for an Etruscan fertility goddess.

"She would represent a new Etruscan myth, as we know of no Etruscan goddess who gives birth in Etruscan mythology," Perkins said.

The finding, which will be detailed at the annual meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America in Philadelphia in January, is “a most exciting discovery” according to Larissa Bonfante, a world-renowned expert on the Etruscan civilization. “She could be a goddess, probably apotropaic [protective],” Bonfante told Discovery News.

Thanks to coldrum for the link to news.discovery.comhttp://news.discovery.com/history/etruscan-mother-birth-art-111019.html">news.discovery.com>.
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    Re: Ancient Images of a Mother Giving Birth Found by Runemage on Friday, 11 November 2011
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    It's interesting that the image appears to be stamped into the pottery. That would suggest to me that it would have been used on many more pieces than just this one.

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Geoarchaeology of the Podere Funghi, Mugello Valley Archaeological Project, Italy by Andy B on Saturday, 05 November 2011
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Six student papers in this Keck project span the converging boundaries between archaeometry and geoarchaeology and contribute to an established archaeological project with its roots in classical archaeology.

http://poggiocolla-geo.wikispaces.com/Rob+and+Sara+paper
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Ancient image of childbirth discovered by blind archaeologist by Andy B on Saturday, 05 November 2011
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Ancient image of childbirth discovered by blind archaeologist

This Etruscan ceramic fragment is over 2,600 years old, and it's quite possibly the oldest depiction of childbirth ever found in Europe. It's a marvellous sight to behold, but the person who actually discovered it hasn't even seen it.

The fragment is an artifact of the Etruscan civilization, which dominated Italy before the rise of the Romans. The image, which is surprisingly graphic for a ceramic fragment, is one of the few ancient depictions of childbirth that archaeologists have uncovered, and it's quite possibly the oldest known depiction in the western world. The fragment was discovered by William Nutt, a graduate student at the University of Texas, while excavating at the Poggio Colla site northeast of Florence.

Nutt explains the significance of the find:

"The image is unique because in the classical world, we don't see a lot of birthing scenes. The real question is if we don't see these types of birthing scenes anywhere else in classical art, then why is it on this pot? It obviously meant something to the people who were there and who made it. A number of kingdoms broke down and changed over a short period of about 100 years. Looking at the culture change helps us to learn a lot about how societies adapt to stress, what being a part of a society means and it helps us to learn about ourselves."

Nutt himself is legally blind, which at first might seem like a fairly big challenge to doing archaeological fieldwork. But, as he explains - and this finding confirms - vision isn't really required to excavate:

"I used dental tools and a sharpened trowel to slide along the ground. I'd run my hands along the soil, feeling and uncovering different layers. If I started to notice a soil change, I'd check with another excavator. I was really very fortunate to work with a great group of people."

Source: University of Texas
http://www.uta.edu/news/releases/2011/10/william-nutt-release.php

View a larger image at New Scientist
http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/shortsharpscience/2011/10/first-western-childbirth-image.html
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