Rovereto, halls packed to the archaeological cinema – Adige – Daily independent of Trentino Alto Adige

The curtain fell on the XXVI edition of the International Review of Archaeological Films in Rovereto, an event sponsored by the Foundation museum of Rovereto.

The “Prize city of Rovereto – Archaeology Viva” of the public goes to “Petra – Lost city of stone / Petra – Lost City of Stone” Gary Glassman. Lost on the border three great deserts and rich in monuments of the most spectacular and the most mysterious of the ancient world, Petra is a formidable conundrum. Today international studies started more than twenty years are bearing fruit surprising: from the sands and legends that surround it emerges a true capital of the desert.

Runner ‘Australie : l’aventure des premiers hommes. Les grands nomades / Australia: the adventure of the first men. The great nomads’: 60 thousand years ago, a stubborn group of Homo Sapiens, after covering the southern coast of Asia, completes the first major ocean crossing and reaches Australia. At Lake Mungo you have been discovered the oldest site of cremation, the oldest ax polished and the oldest map of the world. Changing climatic conditions cause extremely harsh living conditions in which the group responds with an explosion of art and technological progress.

Third Place “Les génies of the Chauvet caves / The great masters of the cave Chauvet »: drawings and paintings of the Chauvet cave, 36 thousand years old and discovered twenty years ago in the South of France, are now the oldest human artistic expression. Their strength and modernity have radically changed all the ideas we had about art prehistoric.
Ex aequo to the critics’ prize Paolo Orsi, assigned to “Australie: l’aventure des premiers hommes” and to “Carpenters and Joiners in ‘Bronze Age. Construction techniques, housing facilities of the population lived thousands of years ago in the World Heritage Sites of bands Cavriana and Castellaro Lagusello “, therefore the production houses Contact Zephyr Films and Film-Alto Mantovano Archaeological Museum.

The mention Special Archeoblogger 2015 and the special mention CinemAMoRe 2015, new this year, went respectively to “Ta gynaikeia. Things of women “and to” Mustang? The hidden kingdom / Mustang, the hidden realm. ” Nearly three thousand, this year, viewers of the show, with a substantial increase over last year.