Sepolcreti dell’età del Ferro nella Valle dell’Alcantara (original) (raw)
2019, M. Cipriani, E. Greco, A. Pontrandolfo, M, Scafuro (a cura di), Atti del III Convegno Internazionale "Dialoghi sull'archeologia della Magna Grecia e del Mediterraneo", Paestum, 16-18 novembre 2018, pp. 711-716
Iron Age rock-cut tombs in the Alcantara Valley (Sicily) This paper is part of a still ongoing research on the rock-cut evidence of the Alcantara Valley. The river rises in the Nebrodi mountains, runs for 50 km and flows into the Ionian sea. The valley provides several unpubblished or scarcely investigated rock-cut sites. In particolar, the present work focuses on some necropolis dating to the Iron Age, on a typological basis. Despite the small amount compared to other areas of the island and the contradictory informations provided by the the written sources, they represent a relevant evidence of the indigenous presence in the Iron Age, inland Naxos.
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