Thursday, 6 February 2025, 6 p.m.

Adriatic without borders: Neolithic routes

Paola Visentini, Head of the Friuli Museum of Natural History, Udine

Casa Cavazzini, Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Udine

Can a reinterpretation of Neolithic migration help us understand today’s ever-changing society? Archaeological data offer many insights into the ancestral human need to migrate. Moving means many things: redefining one’s identity, crossing borders, meeting, clashing and mixing, essentially changing. These processes have left traces in archaeological evidence, fragments that help us outline many chapters, albeit incomplete, of our history.

Paola Visentini is head of the Friulian Museum of Natural History in Udine. Trained as a prehistorian, she has conducted and coordinated numerous excavation campaigns in Italy at Neolithic and Copper Age sites, helping to define and explore issues related to the Recent Prehistory of northeastern Italy, including in relation to relations with the transalpine world and the Adriatic region. He has conceived and organized national and international scientific conferences on Prehistory and Museology, permanent and temporary exhibitions, popular events and European projects. Since 2023 he has been an advisor to the Regional Coordination for the Triveneto region of ICOM.

Admission is free while places last.

The meeting is part of the public program of the exhibition How do you construct images of the other?, produced by Altreforme in collaboration with the City of Udine and open at Casa Cavazzini until March 16, 2025.
See the schedule of appointments here:
www.projectmindthegap.it/en/conferences-and-workshops/