Pantalica culture
Olla from the Pantalica I 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)
literature
- Christoph Kohler: Pantalica. In: The New Pauly (DNP). Volume 9, Metzler, Stuttgart 2000, ISBN 3-476-01479-7 , column 362.
- Christoph Kohler: Ausonian culture. In: The New Pauly (DNP). Volume 2, Metzler, Stuttgart 1997, ISBN 3-476-01472-X , Sp. 332 f.
- Robert Ross Holloway : The Archeology of Ancient Sicily. Routledge, London 2002, pp. 37-42.
- Anna Maria Bietti Sestieri : The Bronze Age in Sicily . In: Harry Fokkens, Anthony Harding (eds.): The Oxford Handbook often the European Bronze Age . Oxford University Press, 2013, pp. 662-665.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ 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.