Incontri e mobilità nel Mediterraneo preistorico : le necropoli siciliane di Cozzo del Pantano e Matrensa / a cura di Davide Tanasi e Carlo Veca.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Tanasi, Davide, 1974- editor.

Veca, Carlo, editor.

Series:

BAR international series ; 2950.

BAR international series ; 2950

Language:

Italian

Subjects (All):

Bronze age--Italy--Syracuse.

Bronze age.

Excavations (Archaeology)--Italy--Syracuse.

Excavations (Archaeology).

Tombs--Italy--Syracuse.

Tombs.

Syracuse (Italy)--Antiquities.

Syracuse (Italy).

Sicily (Italy)--Antiquities.

Sicily (Italy).

Italy--Syracuse.

Physical Description:

xiii, 239 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 30 cm.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : BAR Publishing, 2019.

Summary:

"For the cultural development of the Sicilian indigenous communities, the Middle Bronze Age (from the mid-15th to the mid-13th century BCE) represents a crucial phase characterised by an escalation of the relationship with the Aegean and the Maltese Archipelago and by the effect of that relationship on the local mortuary practices. This book analyses two Siracusan necropoleis of Cozzo del Pantano and Matrensa, among the most important for this period, originally explored and published in preliminary form by Paolo Orsi in 1893 and 1898. The study of over 400 artefacts, offered for the first time with updated technical drawings and colour pictures, analyses ongoing issues relating to chronology. The critical examination of the multifaceted phenomenon of funerary religion and of the afterlife of the two cemeteries in the Classical and post-Classical period makes this book an invaluable reference work for scientific literature on the archaeology of ancient Sicily."--Publisher's web site.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9781407356457

1407356453

OCLC:

1131721771