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Buscemi

PKC6311
TITLEBuscemi
WGS84 37.086207° N, 14.885022° E
Accuracy Unknown

LAT/LON 37.086207, 14.885022
LON/LAT 14.885022, 37.086207

DMS 37° 5' 10.3452" N,14° 53' 6.0792" E

W3Wdamsel, hopelessly, acting
UTM33 S, 489781, 4104442
EGSA87 -311183, 4143236

Elevation m758
Elevation feet 2486.9
RegionSicily





GENERAL SITE TYPE  Pottery

TYPE

1.    Pottery.   van Wijngaarden [2002], 258    ' ..., Mycenaean pottery has been found in funerary contexts in Sicily at ..., Buscemi (site no. 332) ... '
2.    Pottery.   Leighton [1999], 170    ' ..., a stirrup-jar from Buscemi ... '


PERIOD (High Chronology)

1. Late Helladic: (1700 BC - 1050 BC)
    a.    Leighton [1999]: 170, ' ... examples of Mycenaean ware have been found inland, ... '

2. LH IIIB: (1320 BC - 1190 BC)
    a.    van Wijngaarden [2002]: 329, 'LHIIIB'

BIBLIOGRAPHY

1.  Leighton [1999]:  Leighton, Robert. Sicily before History; An Archaeological Survey from the Paleolithic to the Iron Age. Cornell University Press, Ithaca, New York. 1999., '', pg. 170. Online here.

2.  Taylour [1958, 2010]:  Taylour, Lord William. Mycenaean Pottery in Italy and Adjacent Areas. Cambridge University Press. 1958, 2010., '8 Buscemi', pg. 64.

3.  van Wijngaarden [2002]:  van Wijngaarden, Gert Jan. Use and Appreciation of Mycenaean Pottery in the Levant, Cyprus and Italy (ca. 1600 - 1200 BC). Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research and Amsterdam University Press. 2002., 'Catalogue I: Sites in the Mediterranean with Mycenaean pottery', pg. 323. '332 Buscemi'
Online here.

Nearest shoreline

The closest shoreline to C6311 is at 37.19104° N, 15.18655° E, a straight-line distance of 29 km and 192 m.