Grotto of Maccagnone
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Cavity with paleontological and anthropozoic deposit (Source: Landscape Guidelines)
The cave has a roughly triangular plan, with irregular sides of about 15 m each, embedded by the sea halfway up the slopes of Rocca Rossa in the Montagna Longa. It houses a flock of about twenty units. A reworked deposit emerges on the floor with few traces of Pleistocene fauna and some boulders fallen from the vault. The cave was investigated by the English paleontologist H. Falconer in 1859 who carried out surveys and published the results among the best of the time. The man in the Maccagnone cave is represented only with some concretionary flint concreted into the ceiling. About ten meters north of the cave, the remains of a hippo deposit emerge in the open. F ° 249 III NE Carini; UTM: 33SUC39502290; Altitude: 120 m (Text source: Giovanni Mannino Piero Galati: Carini Archaeological Map)
Upper Paleolithic, Mesolithic
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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
Photos: Giovanni Mannino Piero Galati: Carini Archaeological Map
Information contributions: Ignazio Caloggero Web
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