Contrada Roccazzo
Neolithic village and necropolis.
Area of archaeological interest, art. 142 letter m) Legislative Decree 42/04
Source: Regional landscape plan guidelines + http://map.sitr.regione.sicilia.it/gis/rest/services/Beni_Culturali
Further link: https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roccazzo_(sito_archeologico)
Upper Paleolithic (100)
Bibliography and further in-depth documents:
100) FIRST SICILY - AT THE ORIGINS OF SICILIAN SOCIETY - volume first edited by Sebastiano Tusa Palermo 1997.
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
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
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
Further Reading:
Ignazio Caloggero:
Neolithic and the birth of agriculture in Sicily
Religiosity and Burials in the Neolithic Period
Card insertion: Ignazio Caloggero
Photo: By dapal (msg) - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=20853093
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