Site details

Cannatello Site

PK	C6312
TITLE	Cannatello Site
WGS84	37.25703° N, 13.61739° E
Accuracy	Exact

LAT/LON	37.25703, 13.61739
LON/LAT	13.61739, 37.25703

DMS

37° 15' 25.308" N

13° 37' 2.604" E

W3W	canyons, llama, milling
UTM	33 S, 377392.91, 4124281.83
EGSA87	-422180, 4173989

Elevation m	49
Elevation feet	160.8
Region	Sicily

GENERAL SITE TYPE Pottery

TYPE

1.    Artifacts.   Russell [2017], 12    ' ...; four spearheads from Cannatello ...; and an oxhide ingot fragment ... '
2.    Pottery.   Russell [2017], 17    'These (LH, rhc) pots or potsherds have been found at 16 sites around Sicily, particularly in two clusters: ..., and in the middle of the south coast (Agrigento province) ... .  Approximately 100 examples are known, although 75% of the evidence comes from just two sites, Thapsos and Cannatello ... '
3.    Pottery.   Day and Joyner [2005], 309    'A number of Aegean-style transport stinup jar fragments have been excavated at Cannatello, near Agrigento, Sicily, ... '
4.    Pottery.   Leighton [1999], 172    'Preliminary reports from Cannatello note the presence of large storage jars of Late Cypriot type, comparable with finds from Antigori in Sardinia.' Antigori is C6307.

PERIOD (High Chronology)

1. LH IIIA: (1410 BC - 1315 BC)
    a.    Russell [2017]: 17, ' ..., although the 'busiest' period in terms of LH pottery is said to be the site's first phase (Figure 5A), where several LH IIIA sherds were found ... '

2. LH IIIB: (1320 BC - 1190 BC)
    a.    Day and Joyner [2005]: 313, '[Cannatello] joins a growing list of coastal sites in the Near East, Cyprus, Crete, Sicily, Sardinia and mainland Italy which testify to growing maritime exchange during the thirteenth century BC.'
    b.    Russell [2017]: 17, 'A smaller amount of LH IIIB pottery was recovered from this second phase ... '

NOTE

1. Additional reading:

De Miro, E., 'Cannatello', Enciclopedia dell'Arte Antica, 1994. This article is online here.
De Miro, E., 'Archai della Sicilia greca. Presenze egeo-cipriote sulla costa meridionale dell'isola. L'emporio miceneo di Cannatello', in La colonisation grecque en Méditerranée occidentale., Actes de la rencontre scientifique en hommage à Georges Vallet organisée par le Centre Jean-Bérard, l'École française de Rome, l'Istituto universitario orientale et l'Università degli studi di Napoli "Federico II" (Rome-Naples, 15-18 novembre 1995) Rome : École Française de Rome, 1999. pp. 71-81. (Publications de l'École française de Rome, 251.) It is online here.

De Miro, E., 'Recenti ritrovamenti micenei nell'Agrigento e il villaggio di Cannatello' in Atti e memorie del secnodo congresso internazionale di micenologia, (Incunabula Graeca 98), E Miro, Godart, and Sacconi, edd., pp. 995-1011. Rome. 1996.

De Miro, E., 'Un emporio miceneo sulla costa sud della Sicilia;' in Επί πόντον πλαζόμενοι: Simposio italiano di studi Egei dedicato a Luigi Bernabo Brea e Giovanni Puglise Carratelli, Roma 18-20 febbraio 1998, La Rosa, Palermo, and Vagnetti, edd., pp. 439-449. Rome. 1999

De Miro, E., 'Agrigento, l'emporio miceneo de Cannatello'. This article (nd) is online here.
Russell, A., In the Middle of the Corrupting Sea: Cultural Encounters in Sicily and Sardinia between 1450 - 900 BC, University of Glasgow, 2011. This dissertatiton is online here.

Russell, A., 'Sicily without Mycenae: A Cross-Cultural Consumption Analysis of Connectivity in the Bronze Age Central Mediterranean', in Journal of Mediterranean Archaeology (30:1), pp. 59-83. 2017. This article is online here.

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BIBLIOGRAPHY

1. Day and Joyner [2005]: Day, Peter M. and Louise Joyner. ‘Coarseware Stirrup Jars from Cannatello, Sicily: New Evidence from Petrographic Analysis’, Studi Micenei ed Egeo-Anatolici [47] 309-314. 2005., '', pg. 309. Online here.

2. 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. 172. Online here.

3. Russell [2017]: Russell, A.. ‘Sicily without Mycenae: a cross-cultural consumption analysis of connectivity in the Bronze Age Central Mediterranean.’, Journal of Mediterranean Archaeology (30:1), pp. 59-83. 2017, 'Evidence for Extra-insular Contact with the Aegean during the MBA ', pg. 10. Online here.