Capo Stornello archaeological site
Discovery area of prehistoric lithic industry. (A2.6)
Description
In the area above the Cape, a small quantity of lithic tools has been recovered, including a basalt ax, laminar splinters and spikes, indications of a presence in prehistoric times
Upper Paleolithic?
Bibliographic sources
Russo I. - Gianino P.- Lanteri R., Augusta and neighboring territories, I, Prehistory, From the Upper Palaeolithic to the pre-colonization, “ArchStorSir”, suppl. 5, 1996, p.203; Lanteri R., Augusta and its territory, elements for an archaeological map, 1997, p.65. Area of archaeological interest, art. 142 letter m) Legislative Decree 42/04
(Source text of survey form n.30 Landscape Plan of the Province of Syracuse - Archaeological Heritage)
Archaeological Heritage Sheets Landscape Plan of Syracuse
Bibliography and further 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
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
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: Ignazio Caloggero
Information contributions: Web, Region of Sicily
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