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Il Museo di Antropologia ed Etnografia del Sistema Museale di Ateneo dell’Università degli Studi di Torino è chiuso al pubblico da più di trenta anni e questa inacessibilità ha contribuito sia a una mancata valorizzazione delle collezioni sia alla dispersione di molte informazioni che le riguardano. In occasione del suo recente trasferimento e del suo prossimo riallestimento, il Museo ha avviato uno studio sull’intero patrimonio (molto eterogeneo per provenienza e tipologia) favorito anche dalla partecipazione a eventi espositivi o a specifici progetti di ricerca. In particolare, il presente contributo vuole restituire le ricerche realizzate di recente sulle raccolte arrivate a Torino a inizio Novecento grazie alla Missione Archeologica Italiana in Egitto, attraverso un approccio multidisciplinare che coinvolge antropologi fisici e culturali, storici ed egittologi, con l’obiettivo di ricostruire un’importante pagina dimenticata del MAET. The Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography of the University Museum System of the Torino University has been kept closed for more than thirty years: this fact has not contributed to the promotion of the collections while has contributed to the loss of much information. When the museum was transferred and reorganized, a study on the entire heritage (very heterogeneous both in terms of origin and in terms of type) has been launched; it has also been fostered by the participation of the Museum in exhibition events or specific research projects. In particular, the present contribution aims to restore recent researches on the collections that the Italian Archaeological Mission in Egypt brought in Turin in the early twentieth century. The mission had a multidisciplinary approach that involved both physical and cultural anthropologists, historians and Egyptologists whose main goal was to restore an important chapter of the MAET., IL CAPITALE CULTURALE. Studies on the Value of Cultural Heritage, N° 21 (2020)

Early-life nutrition is a predisposing factor for later-life outcomes. This study tests the hypothesis that subadults from medieval Trino Vercellese, Italy, who lived to adulthood consumed isotopically different diets compared with subadults who died before reaching adulthood. We have previously used a life history approach, comparing dentine and bone of the same adult individuals ("subadults who lived"), to elucidate dietary variation across the life span. Here, we examine diets of "subadults who died" from the same population, estimated from subadult rib collagen, to explore whether dietary behaviors of subadults who lived differed from those of subadults who died.Forty-one subadults aged six months to 14.5 years were studied through stable carbon and nitrogen isotope analysis of collagen.Individuals were weaned by age 4 years, with considerable variation in weaning ages overall. Post-weaning, diets of subadults who died comprised significantly less animal protein than diets of subadults who lived. Isotopic values of the two oldest individuals, 13.5 and 14.5 years, show the same status-based variation in diet as do adults from the population.Our results suggest that incorporating animal protein in diet during growth and development supported medieval subadults' ability to survive to adulthood. Isotopic similarities between adults and older subadults suggest "adult" dietary behaviors were adopted in adolescence. Stable isotope evidence from subadults bridges a disparity between ontogenetic age categories and socioculturally meaningful age categories in the past, and sheds light on the underpinnings of health, mortality, growth, and disease in the bioarchaeological record. Am J Phys Anthropol 160:653-664, 2016. © 2016 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.

Questo contributo vuole illustrare la collezione di manufatti realizzati dai ricoverati nell’Ospedale Psichiatrico di Collegno (TO) fra XIX e XX secolo e conservati presso il Museo di Antropologia ed Etnografia dell’Università degli Studi di Torino grazie all’opera di due psichiatri torinesi: Giovanni Marro e il padre Antonio. This paper is meant to illustrate the collection of artifacts made by the patients of the Psychiatric Hospital in Collegno, Turin, Italy, in the period between the 19th and the 20th Century. These products are stored at the Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography of University of Turin thanks to the work of two psychiatrists: Giovanni Marro and his father, Antonio

The skin is a tissue composed of different layers. Each of them carries out a specific function. Epidermis, mainly constituted of keratinized cells, guarantees protection from dehydration and pathogen agents whilst dermis, composed in particular of collagen fibers provides resistance to tensile strength and compression. Analytical technique were more often applied to archaeological remains to characterize the constituting materials and their state of preservation. The knowledge of the modification mechanisms of the skin during time represents a fundamental condition for setting defined protocols of museum conservation of a particular class of archaeological remains: Mummies. The skin of some Egyptian mummies, natural and embalmed, from the collection of the Museum of Anthropology