Friday, Sep 18, 2020. 5.30 pm - 7.00 pm. 75 minutes lecture, 15 minutes Q & A. The webinar will take place online through Google Meet. The webinar is $10 for all Filitalia members and non members. RSVP is required, so please reserve your ticket online. Register Here.

Join Angela Cacciarru and learn more about this prehistorical site in Altamura and the amazing retrieval of this precious fossil in the hidden sub-region of Le Murge, Apulia, a protected UNESCO Heritage site in Italy. Buried in the sands of time 250 thousand years ago in the Lamalunga cave in the Apulia region of Italy, the Man of Altamura is the only entire human skeleton found from the Paleolithic era.

The secrets of the ages lie in his casket, ready to be discovered now by his descendants of the third millennium.

The Man of Altamura was carried by underground waters and swept through a well in the passage tunnel, falling 30 meters beneath the surface into the main room of the cave. A subsequent flood carried him to a secondary absorption branch, where he got stuck among the stalactites which preserved him till this day.

What are the stories and the legends of the Lamalunga cave? What can we learn about what could have brought this unfortunate Man of Altamura to venture into that cave, never more to see the light? We invite you to journey through the mystery of the famous Man of Altamura’s pre-historic life and times, to discover our common roots!

About Angela Cacciarru:
Angela was born and raised in Italy, and has more than twenty years of experience as an instructor of Italian language and culture. She got her BA in Economics from the University of Cagliari, in Sardinia, where she also collaborated with a poetry magazine as an editor and author.

She left Italy in 1990, and, since then, has developed an extensive international and multidisciplinary teaching background in the United States, Europe, and sub-Saharan Africa. She became an United States citizen in 2004.

Her knowledge of Human Geography, her academic specialty since her Ph.D. at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, has been important in diversifying and broadening the content of her classes.