Province of Messina Archives - Prehistory in Italy

Thea, the first Sicilian woman – Acquedolci (ME)

The card was edited by Eleonora Ambrusiano

Among the calcareous rock walls of Pizzo Castellaro, on Monte San Fratello, which is part of the Nebrodi chain, in the territory of Acquedolci, a municipality in the province of Messina along the Tyrrhenian coast, facing the Aeolian Islands, is the Grotta di S. Teodoro, a natural cavity that opens…

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Little idol of Grangiara – Spadafora (ME)

The card was edited by Eleonora Ambrusiano

The few remains of structures found during the excavations in the locality of Grangiara, in the municipality of Spadafora in the province of Messina, such as fragments of plaster, strips of beaten concrete and small collapses, seem to indicate a residential context on the site, a hypothesis confirmed by the finding of fragments attributable to ceramics from…

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Ceramics of San Martino – Spadafora (ME)

The card was edited by Eleonora Ambrusiano

In the territory of the municipality of Spadafora, in the locality of San Martino, two areas have been identified which attest to inhabited settlements during the Neolithic period, dating back to the XNUMXth millennium BC and which currently represent the most ancient evidence of the Tyrrhenian coast of Messina. The first site was located near a course…

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Little idols of Camaro (ME)

The card was edited by Barbara Crescimanno

The site of Camaro S. Anna (ME), located on a terrace overlooking the upper course of the wide Camaro-Zaera river valley, was explored in the 1991s in two different excavation campaigns (1996; 1997-XNUMX). We are located on the first foothills of the Peloritani Mountains, south-west of Messina. Excavations have revealed…

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