To browse Academia. Un autre lot, celui de la Barma Grande, fut l'objet d'une donation par le comte Costantini. The conferences which commemorated the th Anniversary of the Ostrogothic settlement in Italy opened a decade of innovative studies on Ostrogothic Italy The resolute personality of king Theoderic the Great still concentrates, as it previously did, the attention of historians, both to his building activities and his ability to preserve "civilitas".
However, the bolder studies are to be found either in relation to the institutional definition of the power held in Italy by the Ostrogothic kings or in the debate about the ethnic character traditionnaly attributed to the Gothic people. The authors of the period under consideration, Cassiodorus, Ennodius of Pavia, Jordanes, the Anonymus Valesianus, are the subjects of numerous editions, translations and new commentaries which stimulate this growing interest in the Ostrogothic period among the specialists of late Antiquity.
Steatite is a soft, variously coloured and sometimes translucid mineral. It is found in mountainous areas, within metamorphic outcrops, and occasionally as river pebbles. Talcum powder is made by scratching and grinding it. During the Upper Palaeolithic, it was used to make pendants and figurines. Talcum powder was possibly used for tanning hides, but this cannot be definitely proved. Steatite items were found in the Balzi Rossi sites, at the frontier between Italy and France, but most of them were excavated long ago.
We discuss the place of origin and stratigraphic position of each of them, and draw comparisons with similar artifacts found in other Italian and French sites. Working techniques, and specially perforating techniques, became more and more complex through time. During the Gravettian-Early Epigravettian, small steatite pebbles were looked for to carve human figurines. This raw material was possibly more easily found at the end of the Upper Palaeolithic, after mountain deglacierisation, when people were able to explore new countries freely.
The Balzi Rossi caves or Grimaldi caves have yielded several Proboscidean remains. In some of the Mousterian levels of Prince cave and Cavillon Cave they only consist of very i American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Log in with Facebook Log in with Google.
