LUCA CAMPIONE

PhD Student

PhD program:: XXXVII
email: luca.campione@uniroma1.it
building: Lettere e Filosofia, Piazzale Aldo Moro, 5 - CU003




supervisor: Prof.ssa Emanuela Cristiani
co-supervisor (2): Prof. Giorgio Manzi

Research: The hypothesis about "ritual cerebrophagy" among Neanderthals of Grotta Guattari and the origins of palaeolithic religion: an open debate between nationalistic instances of the past and new scientific discoveries

In 2016 Luca Campione graduated in Philosophy (ethics and theoretics curriculum) at the University of Catania with a final dissertation in Philosophy of Science titled "Frans de Waal and the Unselfish Ape. Philosophical Observations about Origins and Evolution of the Altruism".
In 2019 he obtained a Master's Degree in Historical and Religious Sciences at Sapienza University of Rome, with a final dissertation in History of Religion titled "Deep History of Funerary Ritual. An Evolutionary Perspective about human behaviors in front of Death".
In 2018 he obtained a Scholarship for thesis research provided by Sapienza University of Rome. He thus carried out a short period as visiting student at the Department of the Study of Religion and its MindLab at Aarhus University (Denmark), in order to write his Master's final dissertation.
Since 2021 he is a Ph.D. candidate in History of Europe at Sapienza University of Rome, with a research project titled "The hypothesis about 'ritual cerebrophagy' among Neanderthal of Grotta Guattari and the origins of Paleolithic religion: an oped debate between nationalistic instances of the past and new scientific discoveries".

Research fields and interests:
-Prehistoric and protohistoric religions, indigenous religions, Ritual Studies.
-Evolutionary studies of religion, Cognitive Science of Religion
-Cultural thanatology, Evolutionary Thanatology.
-Paleoethnology and its history, paleoanthropology

Research products

11573/1693779 - 2023 - Materiali per una storia delle «religioni preistoriche»: dalla scoperta della caverna di Aurignac allo «animal religieux» di Armand de Quatrefages (1860-1868)
Campione, Luca - 01a Articolo in rivista
paper: STUDI E MATERIALI DI STORIA DELLE RELIGIONI (Brescia: Morcelliana, 2009- L'Aquila: Japadre) pp. 609-634 - issn: 0393-8417 - wos: (0) - scopus: (0)

11573/1693782 - 2023 - Dimistris Xygalatas, Ritual. Storia dell’umanità tra natura e magia, Feltrinelli, Milano 2023, pp. 265. ISBN: 978-88-07-49357-7.
Campione, Luca - 01d Recensione
paper: STUDI E MATERIALI DI STORIA DELLE RELIGIONI (Brescia: Morcelliana, 2009- L'Aquila: Japadre) pp. 7-12 - issn: 0393-8417 - wos: (0) - scopus: (0)

11573/1711471 - 2023 - Dal "toolmaking" al "deadmaking". Le radici tecniche del rituale funebre
Campione, Luca - 02a Capitolo o Articolo
book: Evoluzione e tecnica. Una questione aperta - (978-88-5509-592-1)

11573/1655583 - 2017 - Là dove si celano i tonalme. Il totemismo indigeno mesoamericano nella dialettica fra spazio antropico e spazio selvaggio
Campione, Luca - 01a Articolo in rivista
paper: ANIMAL STUDIES (Aprilia : NOVALOGOS/Ortica editrice soc. coop.) pp. 50-61 - issn: 2281-2288 - wos: (0) - scopus: (0)

11573/1655587 - 2017 - Everything has Jaguar. Un simbolo animale nella sacralizzazione del potere regale
Campione, Luca - 01a Articolo in rivista
paper: ANIMAL STUDIES (Aprilia : NOVALOGOS/Ortica editrice soc. coop.) pp. 40-50 - issn: 2281-2288 - wos: (0) - scopus: (0)

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