Carburangeli cave
Cavity with paleontological and anthropozoic deposit. (Source: Landscape Guidelines)
Cavity of karst origin with traces of marine erosion, degraded by the presence of cesspools of numerous villas, almost completely emptied of the ancient anthropozoic deposit of which only small traces remain in the bottom of the first environment. It was explored by Gemmellaro in 1865 who believed,
from a wrong reading of the stratigraphy, the contemporaneity of man with the elephant, contested by Vaufrey; In 1924 Antonio De Gregorio dug there, collected remains of the extinct Quaternary fauna and lithic industry of the upper Paleolithic. Recently the writer, in the execution of the
planimetric survey, he collected in the first part of the cave up to the "lake", clay fragments that attested a frequentation to draw water and in the third entrance he identified the graffiti profile of a bovid. During the cleaning of the walls from vandalic writings
made with spray paints, “under a layer of calcareous concretion, reports Giuseppina Battaglia, a figure painted in black appeared, representing a goat (?). “The identity of the figure was hypothesized, also considering the modeling of the find, as well as its interpretation. In fact, at the moment no precise comparisons have been found in the known literature ". (Text source: Giovanni Mannino Piero Galati: Carini Archaeological Map)
The Grotto is also a geosite: https://www.lasiciliainrete.it/directory-tangibili/listing/grotta-di-carburangeli/
In-depth documents:
Giovanni Mannino Piero Galati: Carini Archaeological Map. Download file: NOTES_FOR_THE_ARCHEOLOGICAL_CARTA_CAR
Giovanni Mannino: Guide to the Prehistory of Palermo - List of prehistoric sites in the province of Palermo - Sicilian Institute for Political and Economic Studies - 2008 - Publication produced with the contribution of the Regional Cultural Heritage Department,
Environmental and Public Education. Download the document: Guide-Prehistory-of-Palermo_10c8pt2p
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
Card insertion: Ignazio Caloggero
Photo: Di Esculapio - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=48703618
Information contributions: Ignazio Caloggero Web
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