Several wooden objects discovered in the sanctuary of the goddess Mephitis in the Ansanto Valley (Southern Italy), and dated to the second half of the 1st millennium BC, are analyzed in this study with the aim of investigating the woodworking technologies of the ancient population, the Samnites, who venerated the goddess.

No woodworking tools have been discovered during archaeological excavations and original tool-marks on the objects were covered during the restoration of the objects in the mid 20th century. Therefore, a dendrotypological approach was used to study the objects, though challenges to the analyses and interpretation of results arose from the non-optimal state of preservation of the wood and the materials used during restoration, which interrupt the tree-ring sequences.

The analyzed features (wood taxon, tree age and size and part of the trunk isolated for the carving process) highlight the presence of non-uniform woodworking practices, which could be related to the presence of several craftsmen or woodshops, as attested in the ancient Greek world. The stylistic differences identified in the sculptures from the Ansanto Valley might refer to the social status of Samnite families who commissioned the ex-voto.

本研究分析了在安桑托谷（意大利南部）的梅菲提斯女神的圣所中发现的可追溯到公元前 1 世纪下半叶的几件木制物品，目的是调查古代人口的木工技术，崇拜女神的萨莫奈人。

考古发掘中未发现木工工具，20世纪中叶修复文物时，文物上原有的工具痕迹已被覆盖。因此，使用树形学方法来研究对象，尽管对结果的分析和解释提出了挑战，因为木材和修复过程中使用的材料的非最佳保存状态会中断树轮序列。

分析的特征（木材分类群、树龄和大小以及为雕刻过程隔离的树干部分）突出了不统一的木工实践的存在，这可能与几个工匠或木工店的存在有关，正如古代所证明的那样希腊世界。安山托谷的雕塑中确定的风格差异可能是指委托前投票的萨莫奈家族的社会地位。