Terra e territorio tra Entella e Monte Adranone dal VI al III sec. a.C. Il contributo del survey sistematico

Abstract

This paper illustrates the results of the archaeological survey carried-out by the Scuola Normale di Pisa in the municipality of Contessa Entellina (western Sicily), for the period 6th-3rd c. BC, displaying the contribution offered by systematic intensive survey to the discussion of land exploitation, agricultural production and territorial dynamics issues. Here, settlement trends and material culture show: 1) a very widespread, varied and hierarchical form of rural settlement already in the late Archaic age, sign of intensive exploitation of land resources in a rather complex economic framework; 2) a fall of rural settlement throughout the Classic age, due not only to demographic decrease but maybe also to changes in the settlement system as well as to political-territorial events; 3) a massive increase in the number of rural sites (mostly consisting of one-family farms) starting from the Timoleontean age, with major differences between the chorai of Entella and Monte Adranone.

Keywords

• Sicilia
• Entella
• Monte Adranone
• survey
• Contessa Entellina Survey
• territory