7 - G. Cacciaguerra, 2008, Dinamiche insediative, cultura materiale e scambi in Sicilia tra Tardoantico e Altomedioevo. Il caso del sito di Santa Caterina (Melilli, SR) (original) (raw)
A r c h a eop r e s s Acc e s s A rch a e o l o gy , whose interests and expertise span late antique to medieval settlement, urbanism, trade, religion, economics and society.
2020
in Storie [di] Ceramiche 6 – Commerci e Consumi – In ricordo di Graziella Berti a sei anni dalla scomparsa, a cura di M. Giorgio, M. Baldassarri, Pisa 11 Giugno 2019, Firenze, pp. 21-28
La Sicilia Preistorica. Dinamiche interne e relazioni esterne, 2021
The examination of the toponyms adopted for the “new” settlements has remained marginalized in the context of the debate that in the last twenty years has led to a rift between classical archaeologists, divided between “deniers” and “overestimators” of the importance of the phenomenon migratory which, between the eighth and sixth centuries BC, influenced the life of Sicily and the West. A debate that did not involve the protohistoric sector very much. The study combined the reading of polionymes with the results of the latest archaeological, epi-graphic and numismatic analyzes, which have reconstructed ancient and recent data relating to the presence of natives in a new way. He also reconsidered the dictation of the historiographical sources in a more objective way. It was thus discovered that the names of Zancle, Naxos, Katana, Leontinoi, such as Līpára, Thapsos, Mégara, Ybla and Syraqosai attest to realities prior to the arrival of the Greeks, adopted by them and shared with the Natives. These new considerations oblige us to reflect, if not to cancel the concept of the limit between protohistoric and historical epochs
This paper analyses the last excavations carried out by the Soprintendenza Archeologica del Molise, the Università degli Studi di Lecce and the Universidade de São Paulo, from 2005 to 2007, at Campomarino (CB). Many evidences, about the proto-historic settlement, testify early relationships with other settlements of the Adriatic coast during the late Bronze and Early Iron Age.
A r c h a eop r e s s Acc e s s A rch a e o l o gy , whose interests and expertise span late antique to medieval settlement, urbanism, trade, religion, economics and society.
Catania 2014 © Tutti i diritti riservati. è vietata la riproduzione di testi ed illustrazioni senza il permesso scritto dell'Editore, dei Curatori, del Responsabile scientifico dei progetti e degli Autori. Ricerche di archeologia classica e post-classica, vol. II arCheoloGia ClassiCa in siCilia e nel Mediterraneo. didattiCa e riCerCa nell'esperienza Mista Cnr e università. Il contributo delle giovani generazioni. Un triennio di ricerche e di tesi universitarie 446 pp., ill. 17 x 24 cm. ISBN(13): 978-88-89375-12-9 I. Malfitana, Daniele <1967> II. Cacciaguerra, Giuseppe <1977> Progettazione grafica ed impaginazione: Maria Luisa Scrofani
The necropolis of Le Castagne and the fortified site of Colle Cipolla (Castel di Ieri and Castelvecchio Subequo; AQ), close to the mountainous pass of Forca Caruso in the Abruzzo region, were investigated on several occasions between 1983 and 2002. The necropolis, composed approximately by 300 tumulus tombs, was individuated by Ezio Mattiocco, a local expert, and confirmed by aerial photograph monitoring, that evidenced its wide extension. A first excavation was carried out during 1983, bringing to light 11 tombs, 7 of which concentrated in a single area. The tombs, characterised by shallow pits for single inhumations covered by a huge amount of earth and stones, were partially disturbed by post-depositional events, although a certain part of their grave goods was preserved. They can be dated to a period between the 8 th and the beginning of the 6 th century BC, and the burial rite adopted is quite homogenous and typical of the inner area of the Abruzzo region: male individuals marked by the deposition of offensive weapons (daggers, swords, spears) and women characterised by jewellery and other ornaments (neck-laces, fibulae, belts and also ornamental drilled disks), in addition to a small number of pottery vessels for each grave. During the same year, the site of Colle Cipolla was investigated, sampling a part of the defensive walls, made by irregular stones. Another sample was carried out inside the settlement, without finding any structural evidence. Instead, a large tumulus tomb was localised just in the middle of the site. Based on the finds, the area was frequented since the Neolithic and the Copper Age, but the fortified site was probably settled together with the use of the necropolis (8 th-6 th century BC). In 1984 a bronze sheet jug was found in the area of the necropolis and, in 1989, the excavation of the tumulus localised inside the site of Colle Cipolla revealed the presence of two quite contemporary graves: one of an adult man and the other of a woman, with typical grave goods (weapons, fibulae, some pottery vessels), both dated during the second half of the 6 th century BC. It is quite possible that the end of the site of Colle Cipolla was marked by the building of this tumulus, as a ritual abandonment act and, probably, the community originally settled in, moved to another location, which can be individuated in the low-valley site of Superaequum. Since the middle-republican times, Supaeraquum became the main centre in the surrounding area, controlled by the Roman authority, but its role began to increase since the end of the 6 th century, as demonstrated by the first establishing of the funerary area of Macrano, with a monumental tumulus grave, similar to that in Colle Cipolla, originally occupied by two fossa pits (one of a man and the other of a woman).
Catania 2014 © Tutti i diritti riservati. è vietata la riproduzione di testi ed illustrazioni senza il permesso scritto dell'Editore, dei Curatori, del Responsabile scientifico dei progetti e degli Autori. Ricerche di archeologia classica e post-classica, vol. II arCheoloGia ClassiCa in siCilia e nel Mediterraneo. didattiCa e riCerCa nell'esperienza Mista Cnr e università. Il contributo delle giovani generazioni. Un triennio di ricerche e di tesi universitarie 446 pp., ill. 17 x 24 cm. ISBN(13): 978-88-89375-12-9 I. Malfitana, Daniele <1967> II. Cacciaguerra, Giuseppe <1977> Progettazione grafica ed impaginazione: Maria Luisa Scrofani
FOLD&R Fasti On Line Documents & Research, 213, 2010
A seguito di un intervento di tutela condotto dalla Soprintendenza BB.CC.AA. di Agrigento, sulla costa presso la moderna cittadina di Sciacca, è stato portato alla luce un vasto settore di un insediamento che si estendeva in prossimità della foce del torrente Carabollace, quasi a ridosso della battigia. Alle spalle, Monte San Calogero e il sistema collinare di Monte Rotondo 1 ( ). Le ricerche hanno individuato i limiti dell'insediamento conservato (circa un ettaro), verosimilmente esteso in antico anche nell'area più prossima alla foce, dove i consistenti lavori di sbancamento per la realizzazione degli argini del Carabollace, condotti negli anni '60, hanno compromesso irrimediabilmente lo status originario dei luoghi (figg. 2, 3, 4): le acque del fiume, ormai scarse, sono state irregimentate in uno stretto canale di cemento che attraversa il vallone.