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La fornace di pietra a Marsa Siklah
2013
La fornace Penna, uno dei più interessanti esempi di Archeologia Industriale in Sicilia, è oggi ridotta a un rudere che si avvia ad una inesorabile fine. Le imponenti strutture di calcare perdono di giorno in giorno la loro stabilità statica e si sgretolano precipitando al suolo. Inutili gli appelli, le petizioni, gli allarmi e le richieste di intervento sollevate da più parti. Errori, ritardi burocratici, polemiche e interessi contrastanti hanno reso vani tutti i tentativi di salvare la ‘vecchia signora’. Questo libro è un omaggio all’opera del progettista, un geniale professionista siciliano del secolo scorso, ma anche a tutti coloro che nel corso di questi anni hanno testimoniato nei mod…
Les dynamiques de l’Islamisation en Méditerranée centrale et en Sicile: nouvelles propositions et découvertes réecentes. Le diamiche dell’islamizzazi…
2014
IL SITO PREISTORICO DELLO ZUBBIO DI COZZO SAN PIETRO S.I.C. RUPI DI CATALFANO E CAPO ZAFFERANO
2014
All’interno del S.I.C, “Rupi di Catalfano e Capo Zafferano”, alcune delle grotte presenti sono state frequentate dall’uomo fin dalla preistoria. Mettendo a confronto la genesi delle cavità e la loro ubicazione topografica, è evidente che la scelta dei siti consoni a essere usati dall’uomo è marcatamente strategica e ponderata. L’indagine è stata condotta dapprima individuando e raggiungendo i siti noti in bibliografia, dai quali si è cercato di elaborare un modello per individuare nuovi siti che potessero presentare evidenze di frequentazione umana risalenti alla preistoria, soprattutto recente. All’interno di una grotta, Zubbio di Cozzo San Pietro, ubicata ad una quota di 300 m s.l.m sul v…
L’Archeologia tra formazione e pratica: il ruolo dell’Università in Sicilia
2014
The relationship between university and political and social institutions in Sicily has undergone a deep transformation since the end of the '80s. Before that period, university, as a teaching and research structure, was deeply linked with political institutions dealing with the management and preservation of cultural heritage; these institutions, on the other hand, offered the main chances of employment for graduates in humanities and archaeology. After that period, university and politic have undertaken instead, completely different ways, especially in the field of cultural heritage, due to a different economic context and a wider ideological change. The role of the university as a place …
Archeologia nel territorio dei Monti Sicani (Harvesting Memories project). L’insediamento di lunga durata di Contrada Castro (Corleone, Palermo). Pri…
2018
The “Harvesting Memories” project aims to address diachronic change in landscape and settlement patterns during the long-term in the area of Sicani Mountains in Central-West Sicily (Italy). This area is a sort of palimpsest of Mediterranean inland areas characterized by a long-term occupation of low-lying lands suitable for agriculture and hills for pastoral activi-ties. The settlement dynamics of this inner area are well documented in the archaeological sequence of the hilltop site of Contrada Castro. Recent excavation (spring 2017) showed dry-stone structures related to the Islamic and Norman period (9th-12th c. AD), a Byzantine infant burial (7th-8th c. AD) and evidence (layer of morphol…
Selinunte (Sicily) and its productive context: the clayey raw materials applied in a long-lived ceramic production (seventh to third century BCE)
2016
The westernmost of the Greek-Sicilian towns, Selinunte, founded in western Sicily during the second half of the seventh century BCE, gives amazing evidences of a historic activity of ceramic production (seventh to third century BCE). The present study aims to identify the raw materials available in the vicinity of the archaeological site of Selinunte, which were possibly used by the ancient potters, and to characterise them by means of petrographic and chemical techniques. A sampling campaign of clays and sands for tempering was undertaken in the archaeological site and the adjacent area. Moreover, locally produced archaeological bricks and tiles were considered helpful for comparison regar…
Planning Punic cities: Geophysical prospection and the built environment at Motya, Sicily
2020
The urban plan of ancient Motya on the Isola di San Pantaleo on the west coast of Sicily and its relationship to developments in Phoenician and Punic societies have been investigated since the early 1960s. Data from geophysical surveys in the north-eastern quadrant of Motya show the regular organisation of urban insulae framed by two broad roads. These results, combined with data from previous nearby excavations, improve the modelling of Motya's layout, and contribute to the wider discussion of Phoenician/Punic and broader Mediterranean urban traditions between the sixth and fourth centuries BC.
The indigenous settlement of Monte Iato (western Sicily): an ethnoarchaeometric approach for outlining local Archaic ceramic productions
2021
AbstractAn ethnoarchaeometric approach has been followed to identify the textural and compositional characteristics of the ceramic pastes produced in ancient Iaitas/Ietas, an indigenous site located in western Sicily on Monte Iato, a few tens of kilometres from Palermo. This approach was primarily motivated by the lack of discovered Archaic kilns or production sites/workshops and the inability to identify reference groups. Raw clays were sampled in the territory of San Cipirello and San Giuseppe Iato (today’s municipalities both sited on the northern slopes of Monte Iato), together with representative historic tiles and bricks locally produced until fairly recently. Grain-size analysis and …
The production of western Greek amphorae in Agrigento (Southern Sicily): An archaeometric and archaeological characterisation of the late 6th-4th cen…
2022
This paper aims at an interdisciplinary, archaeological and archaeometric characterisation of the western Greek amphorae series produced in late Archaic and Classical-period Agrigento (southern Sicily). The research is based on a macroscopic examination, according to the standardised methods of Fabrics of the Central Mediterranean (FACEM), combined with petrographic analyses of 21 amphorae samples of presumed local fabric found in Agrigento itself. These were found in the artisanal area outside Porta V, in the excavations South of the temple of Zeus, and in several Sicilian consumption sites. Furthermore, a selection of 12 coarse ware samples and three tiles, all of supposed local manufactu…
Multi-analytical study of the medieval wall paintings from the rupestrian church Grotta del Crocifisso at Lentini (eastern Sicily): new evidence of t…
2022
AbstractThis study presents the results of the examination and characterisation of the wall paintings that decorate the rupestrian church named Grotta del Crocifisso, which is located in the territory of Lentini (eastern Sicily, few tens of kilometres from Catania and Syracuse). The earliest mural paintings in the church date back to the twelfth century AD. A multi-analytical approach was adopted for the characterisation of stone materials, secondary degradation products, and pigments. For this purpose, the following techniques were used: reflected light microscopy (RLM), polarised light microscopy on thin sections (PLM), X-ray powder diffraction (XRPD), mercury intrusion porosimetry (MIP),…