CANNATELLO (AG) - Excavations and integrated research on a key-site of Late Bronze Age Mediterranean connectivity / Scavi e ricerche integrate in un sito chiave per la connettività mediterranea della tarda età del bronzo.
| Componente | Categoria |
|---|---|
| Alessandro Greco | Componenti il gruppo di ricerca / Participants in the research project |
| Sara Marino | Dottorando/Assegnista/Specializzando componente il gruppo di ricerca / PhD/Assegnista/Specializzando member of the research group |
| Componente | Qualifica | Struttura | Categoria |
|---|---|---|---|
| Robert B. Koehl | Full Professor | Hunter College, CUNY, USA | Altro personale Sapienza o esterni / Other personnel Sapienza or other institution |
| Sara T. Levi | Professore associato | Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia | Altro personale Sapienza o esterni / Other personnel Sapienza or other institution |
| Davide Tanasi | Assistant Professor | University of South Florida, USA | Altro personale Sapienza o esterni / Other personnel Sapienza or other institution |
| Andrea Betto | Independent Researcher | ArcSAT snc | Altro personale Sapienza o esterni / Other personnel Sapienza or other institution |
| Mattia Pavan | Independent Researcher | ArcSAT snc | Altro personale Sapienza o esterni / Other personnel Sapienza or other institution |
| Andrea Di Renzoni | Ricercatore | CNR - ISMA, Roma | Altro personale Sapienza o esterni / Other personnel Sapienza or other institution |
| Domenica Gullì | Funzionario responsabile | Soprintendenza BB.CC.AA. Regione Sicilia | Altro personale Sapienza o esterni / Other personnel Sapienza or other institution |
| Maurizio Del Monte | Professore associato | Università di Roma "La Sapienza" | Altro personale Sapienza o esterni / Other personnel Sapienza or other institution |
| Laura Sadori | Professore ordinario | Università di Roma "La Sapienza" | Altro personale Sapienza o esterni / Other personnel Sapienza or other institution |
| Ursula Thun Hohenstein | Ricercatore universitario | Università di Ferrara | Altro personale Sapienza o esterni / Other personnel Sapienza or other institution |
| Filippo Avilia | Independent Researcher | Altro personale Sapienza o esterni / Other personnel Sapienza or other institution | |
| Valentina Cannavò | Assegnista di Ricerca | Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia | Altro personale Sapienza o esterni / Other personnel Sapienza or other institution |
| Maria Antonietta Castagna | Independent Researcher | Freelance archaeologist | Altro personale Sapienza o esterni / Other personnel Sapienza or other institution |
| Laura Matilde Magno | PhD student | University of Louvain-La-Neuve (B) | Altro personale Sapienza o esterni / Other personnel Sapienza or other institution |
The project targets Cannatello near Agrigento: new excavations are the center of an integrated project.
The settlement, already subject of research in 1897, 1907 and 1989-2001, saw in 2016 the first year of this new project.
Cannatello is one of the crucial Italian sites of the Late Bronze Age (LBA) Mediterranean network, with finds coming at least from Sardinia, Sicily, Malta, Crete, Greece and Cyprus, and locally produced Nuragic shapes. It is part of the debate about the "boom-and-crisis" phase of the LBA (14th-12th cent. BCE), and a focal point to discuss the involvement of Central Mediterranean communities from Sardinia and Sicily, in connection with the traditions of the "Sea Peoples".
The importance of the site is not paralleled by an adequate edition of past excavations and by a complete definition of the phases of the buildings and of the encircling wall brought to light. Furthermore, the earliest phase (ca. 14th cent. BCE) is still poorly known from stratigraphic contexts.
The research strategy will fix three main pillars for the years 2017-2019, to be implemented since this financial year, through the present application:
- Environment, i.e. geomorphological evolution of the coast; pollen and stratigraphic cores to study the climatic and anthropic influence during the Late Bronze Age;
- Stratigraphy, i.e. targeted excavation of specific areas, producing good contextual associations of finds and assuming the "third scientific revolution" strategy, with an intensive sampling policy for advanced analyses;
- Connections, i.e. framing the site in the wider Mediterranean network, and particularly Crete and Cyprus, aiming at a better social and political definition of the communities involved in the "boom-and-crisis" years.
The innovative potential is very high, and the improved knowledge of the site, in its enhanced environmental and cultural context, will foster a renewed phase of debate and publications about LBA developments in the Central Mediterranean.