Contrada Giancaniglia
Purely indicative georeferencing. Redefine !!!
In the prestigious magazine "Quaternary" of 1961 appeared the news "New facies of the Paleolithic in Sicily (Giancaniglia)" signed by Giosuè Meli employed at the Superintendence of Antiquities of Palermo. In Ciancaniglia, in a colossal excavation of the Quaternary terrace, on which the cemetery of Termini Imerese rests, for the opening of a ring road, at a depth of about 25 meters lithic finds attributable to the Middle Paleolithic would have come to light. More in-depth analysis on the stone objects recovered have
except for tools. (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)
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
100) Marcello Piperno: The Population of Sicily - The Lower Paleolithic in EARLY SICILY - AT THE ORIGINS OF SICILIAN SOCIETY - volume first edited by Sebastiano Tusa Palermo 1997.
Ignazio Caloggero:
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
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Information contributions: Ignazio Caloggero Web
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