A CRITICAL NOTE BY ABELE DE BLASIO (1902) ON THE ARCHAEO ANTHROPOLOGICAL CONJECTURES OF LUIGI PALMIERI (1872)

SILVIA IORIO¹, PAOLA BADINO², MASSIMO ALIVERTI³, ILARIA GORINI^2*

¹Department of Molecular Medicine, Unit of History of Medicine, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy - ²Department of Biotechnology and Life Sciences, University of Insubria, Varese, Italy- -³University of Insubria, Varese, Italy

This paper offers a description and explanation of a criticism written by Abel De Blasio in 1902 on the archaeological and anthropological conjectures that Luigi Palmieri had made in the past. In a note presented in 1872 at the Academy of Sciences of Naples, regarding some ancient tombs discovered by chance near the Observatory on Mount Vesuvius, Palmieri presented interpreta- tive observations that were unacceptable for specialists in anthropological studies and funerary archaeology.