Abyss of the Wind
Cavity known in ancient times as Gushing water because from the small entrance hole, then inaccessible to man, the rustle of a violent current of air was interpreted as swirling groundwater. In 1972 young people from the ASCI of Cefalù, treasuring the reading of Grisanti, widened the entrance and after a slide of about twenty meters, they reached an environment with horizontal and vertical branches that reach a development of about 2000 meters and a depth of 200 meters. In a wall of the first room, inside a natural niche, which as I have been able to observe recalls the “oven” tombs, the grave goods of a number of depositions were found which I have not been able to reconstruct; probably three. The finds recovered are: 6 globular ollette and 3 cups 6 to 13 cm high; 25 necklace grains of which 2 of calcite and 23 obtained from fossil shells (Conus and Dentalium), 7 flint blades. In the room, 16 fragments of a large olla with graffiti decoration were collected, used for the collection of dripping water for drinking. It is a burial with finds from the S. Cono-Pino Notaro culture. F ° 260 IV NO, Isnello; UTM: VB13069843. Altitude: 843 m. (Text source: Giovanni Mannino: Guide to the Prehistory of Palermo - List of prehistoric sites in the province of Palermo - Sicilian Institute for Political and Economic Studies)
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Further Reading:
Bibliography and in-depth documents:
100) FIRST SICILY - AT THE ORIGINS OF SICILIAN SOCIETY - volume first edited by Sebastiano Tusa Palermo 1997.
Ignazio Caloggero: Sicily between History, Myths and Legends. Vol. 1: From Prehistory to the Phoenicians. First edition 2018 - Revised and updated edition of 2022
History of Sicily - 1.3.1: Neolithic and the birth of agriculture in Sicily
History of Sicily - 1.3.2: Religiosity and Burials in the Neolithic Period
History of Sicily - 1.3.3: Art in the Neolithic
History of Sicily - 1.3.4: Neolithic Sites List
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