Description: Grotta Scaloria, in Apulia, first discovered in 1931, excavated briefly in 1967, extensively from 1978-1980 by a joint UCLA-University of Genoa team, but not fully published until now. The project is important as historiography, showing changing trajectory of research across three generations of European and American archaeology.
Brief description: Ernestine S. Elster is a visiting assistant professor at the Cotsen Institute of Archaeology at the University of California, Los Angeles. Eugenia Isetti is the president of the Istituto Italiano di Archeologia Sperimentale in Genoa. John Robb is a professor in the Department of Archaeology at Cambridge University. Antonella Traverso is with the Soprintendenza Archeologia della Liguria.