A critical note by Abele de Blasio (1902) on the archaeoanthropological conjectures of Luigi Palmieri (1872)

This paper offers a description and explanation of a criticism written by Abel De Blasio in 1902 on the archaeological and anthropological conjectures that Luigi Palmieri had made in the past. In a note presented in 1872 at the Academy of Sciences of Naples, regarding some ancient tombs discovered by chance near the Observatory on Mount Vesuvius, Palmieri presented interpretative observations that were unacceptable for specialists in anthropological studies and funerary archaeology.