Rock-shelter research in central Sicily

Giannitrapani, Enrico; Pluciennik, Mark

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“…Cyprus, Crete, south-east Italy) adopted farming rapidly. Many forager groups lingered after farming arrived, as charted by recent surveys in the western Mediterranean uplands, islands, lake basins, coastal caves, and rock shelters (Giannitrapani and Pluciennik 2001;Malone and Stoddart 1994;Binder 2000;Zilhao 2000;Barker 1995;Biagi 1990;Pessina and Tiné 2008). A major problem for archaeologists is the location of sites documenting the transition from foraging to farming, with just a few examples currently known and published.…”

Section: Mesolithic Background and Neolithizationmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Neolithic in Mediterranean Europe

Fowler¹,

Harding²,

Hofmann³

et al. 2015

The Oxford Handbook of Neolithic Europe

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and KeywordsThe Mediterranean region represented a significant zone for the transmission of the Neolithic and its farming economy. This essay reviews the different mechanisms and geographic constraints that influenced the movement of farming and cultural trends, and assesses the current interpretative models as well as traditional approaches in the context of recent archaeological discoveries and publication. Neolithic evidence across southern Europe, from the Near East, Aegean, north Africa and to Iberia and France, is described in the different regions and set against the current chronology. Key issues include the parallel development of settled farmers alongside mobile hunter-gatherers and their gradual assimilation into food producing societies, and the longevity of the typical Mediterranean economy.

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Section: Mesolithic Background and Neolithizationmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Neolithic in Mediterranean Europe

Fowler¹,

Harding²,

Hofmann³

et al. 2015

The Oxford Handbook of Neolithic Europe

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The Establishment of the Agricultural Landscape of Central Sicily Between the Middle Neolithic and the Beginning of the Iron Age

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Giannitrapani,

Mercuri

et al. 2024

Hum Ecol

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The possible co-variation of human occupation and vegetation from the Middle Neolithic to the beginning of the Iron Age (7.5–2.8 ka BP) in Central Sicily in the context of the central Mediterranean between Middle and Late Holocene are analysed in this paper to provide new insights on Sicilian prehistoric demography. The demographic and economic trends during these millennia were reconstructed using archaeological, Accelerator Mass Spectrometry 14C dates, palynological, archaeobotanical, and zooarchaeological data from the northern, central, and southern sectors of Central Sicily through a diachronic comparison with variation in Arboreal Pollen, Anthropogenic Pollen Indicators, Olea-Juglans-Castanea pollen, microcharcoals, and Sporormiella from four pollen cores from sites in different ecosystems. A very significant spread of farming activities was found at the end of the Neolithic, together with an apparent demographic gap during the Middle Copper Age, and the emergence of agricultural landscapes at the end of the Copper Age associated with a striking increase in population. A combination of cultural and climatic changes during the late phase of the Bronze Age resulted in a subsequent overall decrease in population.

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A century of prehistory and landscape studies at the British School at Rome

Potter¹,

Stoddart²

2001

Pap. Br. Sch. Rome

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UN SECOLO DI STUDI PREISTORICI E DEL PAESAGGIO ALLA ‘BRITISH SCHOOL AT ROME’Questo articolo esamina i cento anni di tradizione di studi preistorici e del paesaggio della ‘British School at Rome’. Questo secolo di ricerca consiste in tre fasi principali: la direzione di Ashby, quella di Ward-Perkins e gli ultimi tre decenni del ventesimo secolo. Le prime due sezioni, scritte principalmente da Tim Potter prima della sua scomparsa, ripercorrono lo sviluppo degli studi topografici dai primi decenni del ventesimo secolo fino allo studio regionale degli anni’ 60. Nell'ultima sezione l'attivita della ‘British School at Rome’ è inserita nel contesto delle tendenze più recenti nell'archeologia del paesaggio: una combinazione di orientamento delle problematiche ed un'accresciuta intensità di ricerca. Nonostante l'Etruria sud-orientale sia generalmente considerata come il principale interesse delle ricerche sul paesaggio condotte dalla ‘British School’, questo articolo cerca di sottolineare anche l'importanza di ricerche condotte altrove, particolarmente nell'Africa settentrionale, Malta ed in Italia meridionale. L'obiettivo per il futuro è di vedere fino a che punto la tradizione britannica di sintesi riuscirà a collegare queste nuove tendenze negli studi sull'archeologia di paesaggio.

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Rock-shelter research in central Sicily

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The Neolithic in Mediterranean Europe

The Neolithic in Mediterranean Europe

The Establishment of the Agricultural Landscape of Central Sicily Between the Middle Neolithic and the Beginning of the Iron Age

A century of prehistory and landscape studies at the British School at Rome

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