Pantalica culture

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  • Olla from the Pantalica I phase

  • Vase of the Pantalica III phase

As Pantalica culture is a Late Bronze Age and early Iron Age archaeological culture in Sicily called. It follows the Thapsos culture in the southeast of the island and in southern central Sicily . However, there are indications that the later phase of the Thapsos and Pantalica (northern) cultures overlap in the east over a certain period of time. In the western part of Sicily, the Thapsos culture seems to have had an impact for a long time.

The Pantalica culture is named after its most important place of discovery, the Pantalica necropolis . Like this and the associated settlement Pantalica , the culture existed around the 13th century BC. Until the 7th century BC Other important sites include Sabucina , the necropolis on Monte Dessueri (near Mazzarino ), Montagna di Caltagirone (with over 1000 rock chamber tombs) and Cassibile . Cultural contacts could be proven on the basis of finds to the Mycenaean culture in Greece as well as to the neighboring Ausonian culture . The Pantalica culture was able to exert a certain influence on the latter over time.

The culture is divided into four chronological sections (alternative names in brackets according to locality):

  • Pantalica I - 1270-1050 BC BC (Pantalica-Nord)
  • Pantalica II - 1050–850 BC BC (Cassibile)
  • Pantalica III - 850-730 BC BC (Panatalica-Süd)
  • Pantalica IV - 730–650 BC BC (Finocchito)

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Anna Maria Bietti Sestieri: The Bronze Age in Sicily , in: Harry Fokkens, Anthony Harding (ed.): The Oxford Handbook often the European Bronze Age . Oxford University Press, 2013, p. 663.