Hyblaea: Studi di archeologia e topografia dell’altopiano ibleo. Volume 2

The second Hyblaea highlights interesting new elements on different themes relating to the archaeology and ancient topography of the southern cusp of Sicily, with reference to a broad chronological span that reaches from prehistory to the end of the Iron Age and the first phases of Greek penetration.

La collana Hyblea, Studi di archeologia e topografia dell’altopiano ibleo – nata nel 2022 per iniziativa del centro studi Aditus in Rupe – giunge al suo secondo volume con questo lavoro che restringe il focus sulle fasi piu antiche del popolamento umano nel territorio ibleo. In quest’ottica, la prima sezione dell’opera, accoglie cinque saggi inediti che, seppure incentrati su metodologie e problematiche eterogenee, apportano interessanti elementi di novita su differenti tematiche e linee di ricerca relative all’archeologia e alla topografia antica della cuspide sud-orientale della Sicilia, con riferimento ad un ampio arco cronologico che dalla preistoria giunge alla fine dell’eta Ferro e alle prime fasi della penetrazione greca. Questo primo volume tematico della collana, inoltre, accoglie i contributi piu rilevanti presentati in occasione del Convegno “Monte Finocchito e l’agro Netino, tra Preistoria e Storia”, organizzata dalla Fondazione Giuseppe e Santi Luigi Agnello – in collaborazione con il C.U.M.O, dedicato ad uno dei comprensori archeologicamente piu rilevanti del territorio ibleo.

Prefazione

Introduzione

Il territorio di Avola in periodo preistorico e protostorico – Rosa Maria Albanese Procelli

L’insediamento preistorico di Contrada Granati Vecchia (Rosolini- SR). I dati preliminari – Italo Giordano, Rosa Lanteri

Lavorazione, commercializzazione e tesaurizzazione di beni in metallo nell’area ibleo ragusana tra il X secolo aC e l’arrivo dei Greci – Saverio Scerra

Osservazioni archeo-topografiche sull’insediamento d’altura nel territorio ibleo (Sicilia sud-orientale): il caso di Monte Casasia – Rodolfo Brancato, Flavia Giacoppo, Giuseppe Luongo, Claudio Pianese, Matteo Roccuzzo, Saverio Scerra

La rete della “connettività” tra Siracusa e Palazzolo Acreide dall’età del Bronzo alla tarda antichità. Studio delle dinamiche insediative, attraverso analisi predittive e postdittive – Carlo Citter, Michele Mazza, Ylenia Paciotti

Noto Antica tra la prima età del Bronzo e l’età del Ferro – Lorenzo Guzzardi

Monte Finocchito: introduzione al sito – Massimo Frasca

Monte Finocchito: evidenze indirette di tessuti dalla necropoli – Gabriella Longhitano

Archeometric analysis of ceramics from Monte Finocchito and Heloros – Anna Raudino

Antonino Cannata graduated cum laude in Classical Archaeology (School of Specialisation of Catania) with a Master’s Degree in Ceramiche a pareti sottili ed altre produzioni fini da alcuni contesti siracusani. His research has focused on the transformation that occurred in the countryside of South-Eastern Sicily between the Hellenistic and late antiquity periods. For several years he worked for IBAM-CNR, focusing on the material culture of the Roman age. He is the author of numerous scientific publications and monographs concerning urban archaeology, landscape archaeology, material culture and networks between the Roman Republic and the Middle Ages. From 2017, he has been the director of the Sicilian research centre Aditus in Rupe. He initiated and edited the book Hyblaea: Studi di archeologia e topografia dell’altopiano ibleo. Massimo Frasca is Associate Professor of Classical Archaeology and Director of the School of Specialisation in Archaeology at the University of Catania. He has directed excavations in Sicily and southern Italy and was a member of the Italian archaeological missions of Prinias (Greece) and Iasos and Kyme Eolica (Turkey). He is the author of numerous scientific publications and monographs. His main research topics concern the Greek colonies of Sicily and their relations with the indigenous peoples and the handicraft production of Kyme Eolica and other cities of Asia Minor. He is currently the director of the University of Catania’s journal Cronache di Archeologia. Marco Stefano Scaravilli is a Classical archaeologist. He has taken part in many research projects, including the excavations of the Italian Archaeological Mission in Nea Paphos (Cyprus). He is currently an official at the Soprintendenza Abap per la citta metropolitana di RC e la provincia di VV (Ministero della Cultura) with position of responsibility for the management of the Museum and Archaeological Park of Medma-Rosarno (Rosarno-RC) and the Archaeological Park of Tauriani (Palmi-RC). He has published numerous studies in scientific journals and books.

• Edited by Antonino Cannata
• Edited by Massimo Frasca
• Edited by Marco Stefano Scaravilli

'Hyblaea 2 presents itself as a collection of diverse contributions, linked by the common thread of chronology and, above all, by the geographical area under examination: the inland Hyblaean region. This area remained relatively little known until the end of the last century, in contrast to the coastal Syracusan zone and the sites of Cassibile, Pantalica, and, indeed, Finocchito... Particularly noteworthy is the high quality of the photographic and graphic documentation.' – Pietro Militello (2026): Rivista di Scienze Preistoriche

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