Description
The volume presents, for the first time, a systematic classification and a relative chronological sequence of the painted ceramics, and of the associated achromatic ceramics, of Castellucciano of southern Sicily, prehistoric facies with complex and multiform socio-cultural manifestations, developed on the island in the span of almost a millennium (about 2300-1500 BC). The study, after a critical review of the archaeological contexts and the heterogeneous documentation published, addresses the peculiarities of painted ceramics through the elaboration of two independent and parallel classifications: one for vascular forms, the other for complexes and variables schemes governing decorative syntax. The associations between the different types of vascular shapes and decorations, and their coexistence in different contexts, converge in a chronological series of Castellucciano in 4 phases, which allows us to
In collaboration with SAMI, Società degli Archeologi Medievisti Italiani
