Za Minica shelter
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“Anthropozoic and paleontological shelter and deposit; Upper Paleolithic engravings and paintings. " (from Landscape Plan Guidelines)
To the north of the Za Minica cave, almost on the edge of Monte Colombrina, there is a niche in the rocky wall capable of housing a calf. When I removed the docile animal in 1964, I did not expect to count dozens of linear engravings and even more unexpected to see the figure of a small deer struck by zagaglie and two strange painted figures. The latter are a schematized anthropomorphic figure, in profile, facing right, the legs spread apart, slightly opacified by a veil of calcareous concretion. The other is in correspondence with a concavity of the surface which, in my opinion, exploits in wanting to represent a vascular shape. It looks like a “flask” with a surface divided into metopal spaces each filled with linear motifs. The graffiti date back to the final Paleolithic, the paintings probably to the Eneolithic.
F ° 249 II NO, Turret; UTM: UC44002500, Altitude: 95 m. (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)
Site subject to archaeological restrictions. DPR 3056 of 30/05/1967
In-depth documents:
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
Giovanni Mannino: The paleolithic prehistoric graffiti of the "Zà Minica" in the territory of Torretta (Palermo) Download file: 45_Session-VII-Session Tourism_Mannino
Superintendence for Cultural and Environmental Heritage of Palermo: La Grotta della Za Minica Download file: 17PA-CAVE-DELLA-ZA-MINICA_3f86a81p
Card insertion: Ignazio Caloggero
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