Archaeological site of Monte Casale di S. Basilio - Contrada Castellana
Rock church // Rock settlement
Fragments of castelluccian pottery on the surface and the remains of a cave tomb.
Site subject to archaeological restriction DA // 1990/11/02 // n.2661
(Text source: survey form no.494 Landscape Plan of the Province of Syracuse - Archaeological Heritage)
Traces of the Lower Paleolithic
Bibliography and in-depth documents:
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
199) Various authors: Discovery of the Lower Paleolithic in Eastern Sicily - (1976) Article in Natura · January 1976
Download file: DiscoveryPaleolithicInferior_SicilyOrientale-complete
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
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 - 1.2. 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
Archaeological Heritage Sheets Landscape Plan of Syracuse
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