Search results for "Preistoria"
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Il Neolitico e l'età dei metalli in Sicilia
2022
Ho accolto con entusiasmo l'invito dell'amico prof. Francesco Torre a vergare la prefazione di un'opera che ritengo importante e preziosa, sia dal punto di vista scientifico sia da quello storico-culturale, poiché presenta compiutamente i risultati delle decennali campagne di scavo e delle numerose ricerche e indagini sul campo da lui condotte insieme a mio padre in ambito preistorico e dell'archeologia marina in Sicilia in modo chiaro e scorrevole. La precisione del metodo scientifico nella ricerca archeologica e in quella storico-comparativa insieme alla semplicità del linguaggio utilizzato, rendono, infatti, quest'opera un importante contributo scientifico per la ricerca preistorica e pr…
Early pastoral communities in the mountains of Sicily. Prehistoric evidence from Vallone Inferno (Scillato) in the palaeoenvironmental framework of t…
2021
Abstract This paper discusses the Middle Neolithic and the Early Bronze Age phases of the occupation of a rock shelter at Vallone Inferno (Scillato, Palermo) in Sicily. Vallone Inferno is a key site for studying the early establishment and development of pastoralism in the prehistoric mountainous environments of Sicily. Seasonal use of the site as a shelter is documented for the earliest pastoral communities that exploited the Madonie mountain range. The results of the analysis of pottery and lithic assemblages contribute to the definition of two chronocultural frameworks that were linked by the same economic subsistence base. The special role of obsidian emerges, while the mobility pattern…
Petrographic characterization of quartzite tools from the Palaeolithic site of San Teodoro cave (Sicily): Study on the provenance of lithic raw mater…
2022
A petrographic characterization has been used here, for the first time, in the study of lithic raw materials exploited in prehistoric Sicily. Our research interests one of the oldest archaeological sites with evidence of the early human peopling of the island (∼15kyr ago): San Teodoro Cave, in northeastern Sicily. Two geological Formations, Numidian and Monte Soro Flysch gave origin to well-rounded pebbly quartzite elements scattered in the marine terraces surrounding the cave and likely exploited as one of the sources of the raw materials for the production of lithic tools by the Epigravettian communities having settled the place. The preference for one of the two qualities of quartzite is…
Within the symbolic world of the prehistoric hunters: A GIS-based and 3D model analysis of sites with complexes of linear incisions in western Sicily
2021
Abstract The prehistoric peopling of Sicily has left scattered traces of symbolic activities through well-known rock art expressions in caves and rock shelters located all around the island (among the most significant, the sites of Addaura, Racchio and Genovese). A peculiar phenomenon is the incision of linear signs, often grouped on the same rocky walls, hidden in fissures or placed at the entrance of the underground chambers of caves. In this report, we investigate a sample of these graphic expressions from a spatial and technical point of view. A GIS-based approach presents the territorial pattern providing insight, on a macroscale, into the intentional positioning of the sign complexes.…
Mountain Environment and Landscape in prehistoric Sicily: The Madonie region (Palermo, Italy)
2008
The present paper would like to show a research project still in progress, presenting the first preliminary archaeological data. The aim of the Madonie project is to analyse mobility strategies and the use of a mountain territory by prehistoric and historic age population, relating geomorphological features, raw material sources and landscape to settlements. In this occurence we are going to discuss about the prehistoric periods.
Strategie d'insediamento nella Sicilia pre-protostorica. Un esempio dal sistema montuoso delle Madonie
2009
The Madonie research project analyzes mobility strategies and the use of a mountainous territory by relating geomorphologic features, raw material sources and landscape to the prehistoric settlement. To that end an intensive and systematic survey of sample areas was planned. Areas were selected on geo-morphological, altimetric and archaeological criteria. The palaeoenvironmental investigation is based on the study of palynological sequence samples coming from wet areas of the Madonie territory and from archaeological deposits. Madonie Natural Park lies on the northern coast of Sicily, near Palermo, in the surrounding of the Greek colony of Himera. The Madonie survey is the next stage of a l…
Experiments and results on obsidian tools: the case study of Le Rocche (Roccapalumba, Pa, Sicily) through microwear analysis.
2003
The results of the experimental activity related to the functional analysis of obsidian tools, coming from the Neolithic site of "Le Rocche" (Roccapalumba, Palermo), are discussed here.
Paesaggi montani e popolamento antico in Sicilia: una proposta metodologica
2013
Siti - Sicilia - Palermo, in "Il Neolitico in Italia. Ricognizione, catalogazione e pubblicazione dei dati bibliografici, archivistici, materiali e m…
2004
Schedatura dei siti neolitici della provincia di Palermo, nell'ambito del progetto dal titolo: "Il Neolitico in Italia. Ricognizione, catalogazione e pubblicazione dei dati bibliografici, archivistici, materiali e monumentali", a cura dell'Istituto Italiano di Preistoria e Protostoria e della Soprintendenza Speciale al Museo Nazionale Preistorico Etnografico "Luigi Pigorini".