The Motta

Traces of prehistoric (Neolithic, Eneolithic, Middle and Late Bronze Age) and Greek settlements

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Insights: Piero Gazzarra - Rometta historical archive - On the origin of Rometta and its appearance in the history of Sicily Unpublished manuscript of the Sac. Giuseppe Mento Visalli - 1881 

downloadable at the following link: http://www.pierogazzara.altervista.org/download%20scaricare/Origine%20di%20Rometta%20Monoscritto%201881.pdf

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 - 1.3.1: Neolithic and the birth of agriculture in Sicily

History of Sicily - 1.3.2: Religiosity and Burials in the Neolithic Period

History of Sicily - 1.3.3: Art in the Neolithic

History of Sicily - 1.3.4: Neolithic Sites List

Card insertion: Ignatius Caloggero

Photo: https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Rometta_San_Cono_A_motta.jpg Author: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/User:Pinodario

Information contributions: Ignazio Caloggero, Web 

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