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[2] [3] [4] According to another thesis the name derives from the Greek πολις Ειθηλος (Polizzello), although so far there is no archaeological evidence that may indicate the presence of a Greek settlement in the area. [5] The site is located on a hill at 877 m above sea level and is near Mussomeli in the Province of Caltanissetta.
The Archaeological site of Mount Bonifato is located in Alcamo, in the province of Trapani, in Sicily.. According to Licofrone of Alexandria, an unknown scholar who set up the library of Alexandria in the third century B.C., there was a village called Longuro on Mount Bonifato of Alcamo in ancient times.
The Antonino Salinas Regional Archeological Museum (Italian: Museo Archeologico Regionale Antonino Salinas) is a museum in Palermo, Italy. It possesses one of the richest collections of Punic and Ancient Greek art in Italy, as well as many items related to the history of Sicily.
An archaeological site with human presence dating from 4th century BCE, Fillipovka, South Urals, Russia.This site has been interpreted as a Sarmatian Kurgan.. An archaeological site is a place (or group of physical sites) in which evidence of past activity is preserved (either prehistoric or historic or contemporary), and which has been, or may be, investigated using the discipline of ...
The first room is dedicated to the prehistory. The showcases present fossil remains of the Villafranch fauna (around 700,000 years ago), consisting of parts of a skeleton of Elephas meridionalis and of a skeleton of an Antiquus hippopotamus, as well as a number of casts of human skulls at various stages of physical evolution that were found in the Area.
The National Archaeological Museum of Paestum (Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Paestum) is a museum in Capaccio-Paestum (Salerno, southern Italy) that houses archaeological finds from excavations of the ancient Greek city of Poseidonia/Paistom, then Paestum. The museum is one of the major "on-site" museums in Italy.. [1]
The older settlement from the late Bronze Age was established on a slightly wet island of over 2 hectares (4.9 acres) [11] and consisted of around 102-106 oak and pine log-houses [12] that were of similar layout, measuring ca. 8 by 10 metres (26 by 33 feet) each. They consisted of two chambers and an open entrance-area.
Ohalo II is an archaeological site in Northern Israel, near Kinneret, on the southwest shore of the Sea of Galilee.It is one of the best preserved hunter-gatherer archaeological sites of the Last Glacial Maximum, radiocarbon dated to around 23,000 BP (calibrated). [1]