Indagando l’aurora dell’umanità. Angelo Mosso (1846-1910) e le prime ricerche di archeologia sperimentale sul Mediterraneo antico

Angelo Mosso was one of the most relevant Italian scholars in the field of Clinic Physiology, contributing to the progress of Natural and Biological Sciences in the late XIX century. However, a very few knows that the Italian scholar was employed, in the last years of his life, in the field of Archaeology, participating to many explorative activities in Italy and in Greece. This study aims at investigating and reconstructing the main aspects which mark the intellectual and scientific path of Mosso as example of a Frontier and multidisciplinary Archaeology. In the perspective of Mosso the digging activity had to be integrated to the studies on the composition of materials applying chemical analyses, as well as laboratory investigations and an adequate dissemination addressed to audience of different target