Buried at the edge

Excavations continue in the Aisone Caves Nature Reserve, and the latest discovery involves the discovery of a 500-year-old woman's burial. Experts will tell us about it on Monday, October 20, at 4:30 p.m., at the CRC Foundation Meeting Space in Cuneo.

Free admission.

The conference will present new archaeological and environmental data on the Aisone Caves area, part of a project launched by the Maritime Alps Protected Areas, the Stura Valley Mountain Union, and the Municipality of Aisone, under the scientific direction of the University of Milan and the Superintendency of Archaeology, Fine Arts, and Landscape for the provinces of Alessandria, Asti, and Cuneo.

The program is still being defined, but will include:

4:30 PM | Institutional greetings
4:45 PM | The Stura Valley between protection and archaeological research: presentations by Lisa Accurti, Superintendent of Archaeology, Fine Arts and Landscape for the provinces of Alessandria, Asti and Cuneo, and Gian Battista Garbarino, Superintendent of Archaeology, Fine Arts and Landscape for the provinces of Alessandria, Asti and Cuneo;
5:00 PM | From prehistory to the modern age in the Stura di Demonte Valley: results of the 2025 excavations at the Aisone Caves. Aisone Caves research team, coordinated by the University of Milan, Chair of Prehistoric Ecology*
5:45 PM | Discussion
6:15 PM | Aperitif
(*) Umberto Tecchiati, Gian Battista Garbarino, Stefano Viola, Stefania Padovan, Fiorenza Gulino, Luca Perolfi, Sara Fumagalli, Giulia Scialanga, Letizia Barillari, Giuseppe Coda, Gianluca Meana, Chiara Bodini, Miriana Ribero.