‘My Life is like the Summer Rose’ Maurizio Tosi e l’Archeologia come modo di vivere: Papers in honour of Maurizio Tosi for his 70th birthday: Papers in honour of Maurizio Tosi for his 70th birthday

This volume collates 99 papers in honour of Maurizio Tosi's 70th birthday. Contributions by diverse authors, on very diverse and sometimes unrelated topics reflect the breadth of Maurizio's own exceptional scientific investigations that took him through America, Asia, Arabia and India to follow a career path at times truly unique in his research. This book, as one can see running through many of the contributions presented here, offers a unique opportunity for all of us, as it will be for him too, to read directly in the words of his friends and colleagues, near and far, alongside the results of original research presented in the various papers, the many impressions, memories, criticisms, disappointments and joys of paths which crossed with his. Front Cover Title Page Copyright Opening Poems Table of Contents Editors’ Notes Preface THE ASH-TIGORS’ GRANARIES AND PALAEO-CLIMATE OF 7-12TH CENTURIES AD IN THE NORTH CAUCASUS IL VILLAGGIO PROTOSTORICO DI MURSÌA SULL’ISOLA DI PANTELLERIA: BREVE RESOCONTO DI 10 ANNI DI INDAGINI ARCHEOLOGICHE INVESTIGATING THE DESERT -- FROM TERRITORY TO SITE FOR THE STUDY OF SOCIAL PATTERNING IN THE EGYPTIAN SAHARA IL ‘GENERALE’ MAURIZIO AN UPDATED REPORT – ON PREHISTORIC HUMAN SETTLEMENT IN THE SYR-DARYA ALLUVIAL PLAIN SAMARKAND TRA EMIGRAZIONE E RISTRUTTURAZIONE URBANA, UN PATRIMONIO CULTURALE CHE SI PERDE MARGIANA IN THE HELLENISTIC PERIOD: AGAIN ON PROBLEMS OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL INTERPRETATION RECHERCHES ARCHÉOLOGIQUES DANS LA VALLEE DU SANKARAN: LES TUMULUS PIERRIERS DE GUAGUALA (COMMUNE DE SIEKOROLE, MALI) ARCHAEOLOGICAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT: THE BREBEMI PROJECT (ITALY) GLI UCCELLI DI SHAHR-I SOKHTA (SISTAN, IRAN): NUOVI DATI ECOLOGICI E PALEOECONOMICI WALKING IN THE MURGHAB ALLUVIAL FAN (SOUTHERN TURKMENISTAN): AN INTEGRATED APPROACH BETWEEN OLD AND NEW INTERPRETATIONS ABOUT THE INTERACTION BETWEEN SETTLED AND NOMADIC PEOPLE “THE GIRL SAYS SHE EATS ONLY DOG MEAT. THE HUNTER KILLSHIS DOGS ONE AFTER ANOTHER”. LE DOSSIER INACHEVE DE L’ALLIANCE ET DE LA VIANDE ROUGE DANS L’ARABIE NEOLITHIQUE ET DE L’AGE DU BRONZE ANCIEN (5000-2000 AV. NOTRE ÈRE) THE GIANT ARCHAEOLOGIST I SĀDHU DELL’INDIA E LE LORO ESTREME TAPASYĀ NEI DIPINTI INDIANI E NELLE STAMPE E DISEGNI OCCIDENTALI IL CONCETTO DI ENEOLITICO THE IMPORTANCE OF ARCHAEOASTRONOMY IN ARCHAEOLOGICAL EXCAVATIONS A RECENTLY EXCAVATED IMAGE OF A BERIBBONED RAM FROM KAFIR KALA REDISCOVERING SUMER. EXCAVATIONS ATABU ṬBEIRAH, SOUTHERN IRAQ IRANIAN QUIVERS IN THE MUSEO NAZIONALE D’ARTE ORIENTALE ‘GIUSEPPE TUCCI’ – ROME UN ARCHEOLOGO DIETRO LE LINEE NEMICHE SURVEYS ABOUT THE ORIENTATIONS OF THE ALLEGED MENHIRS OF CONTRADA SERRAGLIO ON PANTELLERIA ISLAND (TRAPANI - ITALY) CHLORITE VESSELS FROM TOMB 155 AND TOMB 156 IN BĀT, SULTANATE OF OMAN ANTHROPOLOGICAL ESSAY ON THE BRONZE AGE MIGRATIONS IN CENTRAL ASIA (THE CASE OF GONUR DEPE, TURKMENISTAN) MEMORIES OF TOSI HIDDEN MONUMENTALITY IN SEGREGATED SPACE: DISCERNING THE IDEA OF THE HARAPPAN CITY RETHINKING ARCHAEOLOGY AND MATERIAL CULTURE IN THE EARLY 21ST CENTURY. SCATTERED THOUGHTS DEDICATED TO MAURIZIO TOSI THE EVOLUTION OF SPECIALIZED CERAMIC PRODUCTION DURING THE LATE NEOLITHIC AND THE TRANSITIONAL CHALCOLITHIC PERIODS IN THE QAZVIN AND TEHRAN PLAINS (IRAN) MAURIZIO TOSI “A GOOD CHOICE” RIFLESSIONI SUI FONDAMENTI DELLE ‘ECONOMIE POLITICHE’ NELLE SOCIETÀ PROTOSTATALI DEL MONDO ‘MESOPOTAMICO’ THE LOTHAL REVISITATION PROJECT. A FINE THREAD CONNECTING ANCIENT INDIA TO CONTEMPORARY RAVENNA (VIA OMAN) TECHNICAL SPECIFICATIONS OF THE U.S. INTELLIGENCE CORONA SATELLITE MISSIONS 1960-1972 ALCUNI ASPETTI DI ECONOMIA MONETALE NEI DOCUMENTI DI MONTE MUG TAIF BEFORE 1900 FRAGMENTS OF AN ARCHAEOLOGICAL DISCOURSE! BRONZE AGE METAL MANUFACTURING IN EASTERN ARABIA: EVIDENCES FROM RAʻS AL-JINZ (OMAN) AND FAILAKA (KUWAIT) UNE INSCRIPTION INEDITE DU SUKKALMAH TEMTI-AGUN IER PER MAURIZIO PER MAURIZIO TOSI – RICORDI PERSONALI E SOLLECITAZIONI SCIENTIFICHE PIECES OF EIGHT: A SMALL CACHE OF TEXTILES FROM SHAHR-I SOKHTA EXPLORATION OF BUDDHIST MONUMENTS IN SOUTHERN TURKMENISTAN IO E MAURIZIO – STORIA DI UN’AMICIZIA MAURIZIO TOSI: A MODERN DAY ULYSSES TOWARD THE UNDERSTANDING OF OTHER COMPLEXITIES: ARCHAEOLOGICAL RESEARCHES IN CAHOKIA’S WEST PLAZA PROBLEMS IN THE PERIODIC DIVISION AND CHRONOLOGY OF SITES OF THE PALAEOMETALLIC AGE OF SOUTHERN TURKMENISTAN AND THE STRATIGRAPHIC SEQUENCE AT ALTYN-DEPE LARGER THAN LIFE: REMINISCENCES OF PERSONAL INTERSECTIONS OVER A PROFESSIONAL LIFETIME MONGOLS EMPIRE AND DEBATES OF THE NOMADIC STATE ORIGINS BODY AND SOUL WRITTEN SOURCES ON THE HEPHTHALITES MAURIZIO COME AVVENTURA DID A RITUAL ASSOCIATED WITH FIRE FORM A PART OF HARAPPAN RELIGION? INTERACTION SPHERES IN THE ANCIENT NEAR EAST: THIRTY-FIVE YEARS LATER THE LIFESTYLE OF ANCIENT ENTREPRENEURS: TRADE AND URBANIZATION IN THE ANCIENT NEAR EAST DURING THE EARLY 2ND MILLENNIUM BC LE GALLERIE DI CAPTAZIONE IDRICA: QANAT, FOGGARA, KHETTARA, FALAJ. UNA NUOVA VISIONE ECOSISTEMICA EVALUATING POTENTIAL LAPIS LAZULI SOURCES FOR ANCIENT SOUTH ASIA USING SULFUR ISOTOPE ANALYSIS TURENG TEPE: A HYPOTHESIS OF 3D RECONSTRUCTION OF THE HIGH TERRACE DA BABILONIA A HOLLYWOOD – FALSI E PROPAGANDA NELL’IRAQ DI SADDAM THE SAHARA DURING ANTIQUITY: STRUCTURE AND HISTORY PER UN’ETNO-ARCHEOLOGIA DEL NOMADISMO DELLA MONGOLIA ANCIENT MAYA WATER MANAGEMENT: A REVIEW OF THE ACADEMIC PERCEPTION OF THE MAYA TROPICAL ENVIRONMENT UN CORPO PER L'ETERNITÀ WATER MANAGEMENT IN ANCIENT ETRURIA: THE CUNICULUS OF SAN POTENTE(TUSCANIA, LAZIO) A NEW SMALL INSCRIBED CUBOID INCENSE BURNER FROM YEMEN IL MARE E I MICENEI: DALLA NAVE AL SEGNOE VICEVERSA THE SITE OF RA'S AL-HAMRA 5 (MUSCAT, SULTANATE OF OMAN) -- BRIEF CHRONICLE OF THE EXCAVATIONS (1973-2010) PANTELLERIA E L’ANTICA SCIENZA DELL’IDROGENESI ‘MAURIZIO TOSI’S CORPORATE ACADEMY’ – A PROFESSOR DEVOTED TO ‘VISION AND KNOWLEDGE’ L’AVORIO NELLA CIVILTÀ DELL’INDO: ORIGINI DELL’USO E DELL’AMMAESTRAMENTO DI ELEPHAS MAXIMUS INDICUS CRAFT ACTIVITY AT TEPE DASHT SCRITTURA, ORGANIZZAZIONE POLITICA E LEGITTIMAZIONE DEL POTERE ARCHAEOLOGICAL EXPLORATIONS AT IZAT-KULI A GRAVINA CON MAURIZIO LA FORTIFICAZIONE PREISTORICA DI MURSÌA (PANTELLERIA) L’EROE DEGLI SCITI MAURIZIO TOSI THE ROLE OF THE YAΓNOB VALLEY IN THE POLITICAL ANDECONOMICAL HISTORY OF THE SOGDIAN UPPER ZARAFŠĀN. A PRELIMINARY HISTORICAL OVERVIEW AFTER THE 3RD ITALIAN EXPEDITION IN THE YAΓNOB VALLEY AND IN THE UPPER ZARAFŠĀN (MATČĀ AND PARΓAR) ‘KULLI’ POTS FROM THE ANTIQUES MARKET: LOOTED OR FAKED? ARCHAEOLOGICAL SYSTEMS THEORY AND THE ORIGIN OF THE STATE: A CRITIQUE NEVERLAND. METAFORA DI UN VIAGGIO DI RICERCA NEL MEDITERRANEO PRESO PER LA GOLA HYBRID IMAGERY AND CULTURAL IDENTITY IN THE AGE OF EXCHANGE: HALIL RIVER BASIN AND SUMER MEET IN MARGIANA IL FRUTTO INCORONATO. RIFLESSIONI SULL’ICONOLOGIA E LA SIMBOLICA DELLA MELAGRANA ON SOME EARLY EQUIDS AT SUSA GARBAGE AS RUNES. THE ARCHAEOLOGY OF GLOBALIZATION FRONTIERE LINGUISTICHE E FRONTIERE ARCHEOLOGICHE: MAURIZIO TOSI E IL BALOCHISTAN ALLA RICERCA DI UNA TERRA FELICE SOME PRELIMINARY OBSERVATIONS FROM THE NEW EXCAVATIONS AT THE GRAVEYARD OF SHAHR-I SOKHTA METHODOLOGICAL PROBLEMS CONCERNING THE CORRELATION BETWEEN PALEOCLIMATIC AND ARCHAEOLOGICAL DATA BELUTSCHISTANS SÜDOST-FRONTIER MARHAŠI AND BEYOND: THE JIROFT CIVILIZATIONIN A HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE PROF. MAURIZIO TOSI: MY IMPRESSIONS A RETURN TO THE SOUTH HILL OF TEPE HISSAR, IRAN IL RUOLO STIMOLANTE DI UN AMICO-MAESTRO NELLA CARRIERA DI UN ARCHEOLOGO ANOMALO TRA LE VETTE HIMALAYANE E LA TORMENTATA SICILIA DALL'INTENSO BLU DEI SUOI MARI PER SHAWBAK, EREDE MEDIEVALE DI PETRA I CELTI D’ITALIA (IV-I SECOLO A.C.) TRA IDENTITÀ E ASSIMILAZIONI A PERSPECTIVE ON THE “CONTINUOUS LANDSCAPE” OF THE MURGHAB REGION A NEW PREHISTORIC ANTHROPOMORPHIC FIGURE FROM THE SHARQIYAH, OMAN NEOLITHIC ARCHITECTURE OF DHOFAR: THE FOUNDATIONS OF STRUCTURE IN SOUTHERN ARABIA ARCHEOLOGIA, PARCHI E PIANIFICAZIONE PAESISTICA: IDEE E PROPOSTE PER UNA DISCUSSIONE