Sacred Area of Monte Grande
The site covers a huge sacred area that extends over a hill near the coast at Punta Bianca and thanks to its strategic position dominates a vast territory. There are the remains of a large castellucciano sanctuary consisting of large circular enclosures within which numerous votive objects consecrated to cults of the fertility of the earth were deposited. The grandeur of the sacred complex is certainly the testimony of the importance of the site.
Ancient Bronze - specific XVIII-XV century. B.C
Property subjected to archaeological restrictions pursuant to law 1089/1939 - DA 8129 of 19/10/1996
(Source text of survey form n.387 Landscape Plan of the Province of Agrigento - Archaeological Heritage)
Traces of the Lower Paleolithic
Bibliography and in-depth documents:
198) D. Petruso - V. Forgia - L. Sineo: The human population of Sicily: an interdisciplinary review in the Archive for Anthropology and Ethnology - Vol. CXLIV (2014)
Download file: SINEO et al
199) Various authors: Discovery of the Lower Paleolithic in Eastern Sicily - (1976) Article in Natura · January 1976
Download file: DiscoveryPaleolithicInferior_SicilyOrientale-complete
200) Gioconda La Magna (edited by) Between Etna and Simeto - Archaeological research in Adrano and its territory - Proceedings of the study meeting for the 50th anniversary of the establishment of the Adrano Museum Adrano, 8 June 2005 - Library of the Regional Province of Catania 2009
Download file: The_Neolithic_in_Valle_del_Simeto
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 - 1.2. Paleolithic and Mesolithic:
History of Sicily - 1.2.1: Religious sentiments and burials in the Paleolithic and Mesolithic
History of Sicily - 1.2.2: Art in the Paleolithic and Mesolithic
History of Sicily - 1.2.3: Archaeological sites of the Sicilian Paleolithic and Mesolithic
Archaeological Heritage Sheets Landscape Plan of Agrigento
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