traNsversal ARCHAEOLOGY IN SicilY
Sicily, July 6-12, 2019
Post 10th IALE World Congress Excursions
‘Transversal Archaeology in Sicily’ is the post congress program by Gianluigi Pirrera for SIEP - IALE (Società Italiana Ecologia del Paesaggio) in cooperation with Kòrai - Territorio, Sviluppo e Cultura. The post congress excursion will take place after the 10th IALE World Congress.
The annual international and scientific appointment of the International Association for Landscape Ecology this year features the theme “Nature and society facing the Anthropocene: challenges and perspectives for Landscape Ecology”. It will take place in Milan (July 1-5, 2019). The organization gives participants the opportunity to continue their staying in Italy and take part to a rich and varied program of scientific initiatives and excursions in some regions of Italy.
The post congress excursion program in Sicily will take place from 6th to 12th of July (also extensible up to July, 15th) and will be focused on the on-site analysis of some archeological sites in Sicily.
‘Transversality’ in archaeology concerns the epochs and the landscape. Through the visit of some archaeological sites, this tour promotes the objectives of the Ancient Transversal Road in Sicily. According to the ancient journals of the archaeologist Paolo Orsi, it goes from Camarina to Mozia.
Accompanied by the geoarchaeologist Francesca Mercadante, we will visit megalithic, palaeontological and archaeoastronomic sites, underground dolmen sites, geo and archaeological parks, Unesco archaeological sites, under hydrogeological risk sites and Natura 2000 areas.
In the 6 days tour, in addition to the welcome day in Palermo, the participants will be able to analyze the motivations and the effects of the Anthropocene, related to the hydrogeological risk, to the ancient communication routes and to the mutations causing the loss of the ancient landscape in some of the Sicilian Archaeological sites.
For each stage there will also be a site specialist (the archaeologists Roberta Di Rosa, Enrico Giannitrapani, Giuseppe Labisi, Serena Raffiotta) for deepening.
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TRANSVERSAL ARCHAEOLOGY IN SICILY
STAGES
STAGES OF TRANSVERSAL ARCHAEOLOGY IN SICILY
DAY 1
Palermo. Optional: "Antonio Salinas" Regional Archaeological Museum and/or "Gemmellaro" Paleontological - Geological Museum.
DAY 2
Pietra Tara. Oriented Nature Reserve of Capo Gallo.
Oriented Nature Reserve of Pellegrino Mount.
DAY 3
Archaeological park of Segesta. Mothya and the saltpans. Archaeological Museum of Marsala.
DAY 4
Cusa Quarries. Valle dei Templi Archaeological park and Garden of Kolhymbethra. Enna. Pergusa special Reserve.
DAY 5
Hennaion. Lombardo Castle. Rocca di Cerere. Archaeological park of Morgantina. Museum of Aidone. Villa Romana del Casale in Piazza Armerina.
DAY 6
Archaeological park of Camarina,
Archaeological park of Cava d’Ispica,
Necropolis of Pantalica.
DAY 7
Transfer included to Catania or ‘extra days’.
DAY 8-9-10
It is available an extra 3 days extension. Visit to
- the UNESCO sites of the Arab Norman Palermo and Cathedral
Churches of Cefalù and Monreale, included their amazing contexts.
DAY BY DAY PROGRAM
DAY 1 - PALERMO, CROSSROAD OF CULTURES
SATURDAY, JULY 6, 2019
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Start of work: presentation of the excursion program by Francesca Mercadante and Gianluigi Pirrera.
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Multi-ethnic welcome dinner in the heart of Ballarò, Palermo
Recommended extra program:
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Guided tour at "Antonio Salinas" Archaeological Museum.
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Guided tour at: "Gemmellaro" Paleontological - Geological Museum.
Optional:
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Botanic Garden guided tour.
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Palermo guided tour to discover the treasures of the city.
"SALINAS" REGIONAL ARCHEOLOGICAL MUSEUM
The Museum is housed in the former House of the Fathers of the Congregation of San Filippo Neri, built in the 17th century: the monumental complex includes the church of Sant'Ignazio and the Oratory of San Filippo Neri. It has one of the richest archaeological collections in Italy, evidence of Sicilian history in all its phases, from prehistory to the Middle Ages. Inside archaeological findings and artifacts of the peoples that made the history of the island are preserved: Phoenicians, Punic, Greeks, Romans and Byzantines ones. Artifacts of other peoples, such as the Egyptians and the Etruscans, are kept as well. A section of the museum is dedicated to the findings found during the underwater excavations: materials that were part of the cargo of ships, stone anchors, lead logs, oil lamps, amphorae and inscriptions ranging from the culture of the Punic to that of the Romans.
PALERMO, MOSAIC OF CULTURES
The richness and the beauty of Palermo (Panòrmos means ‘harbor in every side’) lies in its thousand souls, outcome of dominations, of arrivals and departures, of welcome and exchange. All this kind of contamination is testified by its landscape, its language, its monuments, its cuisine and its urban fabric. The stratified and syncretic richness of this city, founded by the Phoenicians, then conquered by Romans, Arabs, Normans, Swabians, Angevins, Aragonese, Spagnoli, Savoia, Austrians and Bourbons, is readable in art, architecture, food and traditions. Its monuments, churches, palaces, villas and gardens tell a thousand-year history of beauty and contradictions.
BALLARO' MARKET IN THE ALBERGHERIA NEIGHBORHOOD
Palermo, a multi-ethnic mosaic, expresses its beauty in the meeting of cultures: an example of it is Ballarò, the oldest of the four historical markets, with a dynamic and colorful character, animated by the stalls, in an area rich in particularly important and suggestive monuments and churches. In recent years the market has been enriched by the presence of foreign communities, which have integrated their commercial activities to those of Palermitans, learning from them the technique of selling the abbanniata, the typical call to attract passers-by.
"GEMMELLARO" PALEONTOLOGICAL&GEOLOGICAL MUSEUM
It was founded in 1861 by Gaetano Giorgio Gemmellaro. It contains collections that can be compared to the British Museum ones. The Enzo Burgio Hall hosts collections illustrating the geological history of Sicily, including very rare samples of rocks from the island of Ferdinandea, during the brief period of surfacing in 1831. The Man's Room contains the testimonies of the first human presence in Sicily such as the fossil remains of Thea, a woman who lived in the Upper Paleolithic, whose skeleton was found in San Teodoro Grotto, in Acquedolci. The Hall of the Elephants contains numerous artifacts related to the dwarf elephants that populated Sicily during the Middle-upper Pleistocene, including a complete specimen of Palaeoloxodon mnaidriensis. In the Hall of the crystals there are notable examples of calcite, aragonite, celestine, gypsum, rock salt and sulfur crystals, most of them dredged to the Messinian (so-called chalky-sulfifera series), when the connections between the Atlantic and the Mediterranean were interrupted and the latter became a large salt lake.
DAY 2 - A JOURNEY THROUGH NATURE RESERVES