Glass beads, ritual deposits, and laser beams
A feature on the excavations at Timpone della Motta and the studies of ancient glass beads found in ritual deposits on the hill has just been published in Current World Archaeology.
An aqua-coloured glass bead from a ritual deposit found at Timpone della Motta in southern Italy takes centre stage in a feature just published in Current World Archaeology.
In the feature "Glass beads, ritual deposits, and laser beams: a sanctuary on Timpone della Motta entangled in networks of trade and resettling", we are taken to a laboratory in Orléans and the hilltop sanctuary in Italy where the bead was found together with thousands of other votive objects. Learn more about the history and archaeology of the site, the exchange networks that Timpone della Motta was a part of and the study of ancient glass.
Current World Archaeology feature
Boschetti, C. Jacobsen, J. K., Mittica, G., Mortensen, E. & Raja R. (2022): "Glass beads, ritual deposits, and laser beams: a sanctuary on Timpone della Motta entangled in networks of trade and resettling", Current World Archaeology 116: 16–23.