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Tales of Three Worlds collects, as a sign of gratitude and
affection, a series of papers by many authors who, in different
times, contexts and contingencies, had the luck to meet Sandro
Salvatori, and share with him a path of knowledge and mutual
personal acquaintance. The book is divided in three sections.
Whatever was the apparent relevance of what he was documenting and
protecting, Sandro always acted with a deep sense of personal
responsibility and with the utmost care. The first section deals
with his long years of work in Middle Asia, from the plains of
Sistan to those of the Indus, the coasts of the Omani peninsula and
southern Turkmenistan. Here, as all authors acknowledge, Sandro's
papers have marked true benchmarks of archaeological research -
milestones that will be used by others for many future decades for
new outlines of the social evolution in the involved regions. The
second tells about Sandro's activities in Italy, as an officer of
the Archaeological Superintendency (Ministry of Cultural Heritage)
of his region; for years, he was daily on duty for monitoring and
preserving a wide range of cultural contexts, often far from the
lights of the academic scenarios. Third comes a section on the
prehistory of north-eastern Africa, a context in which Sandro could
work in full scientific and familiar ease, as he was prevented from
doing in other situations. The groundbreaking nature of his work
here is self-evident. The editors and authors of the book know very
well that the sign left by this book is certainly too little for
what Sandro has actually done in our field and in the life of many
friends and colleagues - but the sign is a long-due one, and it is
sincere.
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