The exhibition "Castelluccio. Environment, trade and symbols in South Eastern Sicily" will be inaugurated on Saturday 18 December at 5 pm at the Paolo Orsi museum in Syracuse.

Divided into seven sections, the exhibition, curated by Anita Crispino, presents to the general public hitherto unpublished finds, coming from the excavation of the inhabited area carried out by Giuseppe Voza between 1989 and 1993 and is enriched by finds from the culture of Capo Graziano granted in loan from the Archaeological Park of the Aeolian Islands. One space will have the necropolis of contrada Travana in Buccheri and, finally, it will be possible to admire the globule bones found in Malta and Puglia, thanks to the collaboration with the Archaeological Park of Leontinoi, the National Museum of Archeology of Malta and the national archaeological museum. of Altamura.

The site of Castelluccio, after the excavations in the necropolis carried out by Paolo Orsi at the end of the nineteenth century, was one of the most interesting in Sicily, so much so that Luigi Bernabò Brea gave the name of "Castelluccio phase" to the period of the Sicilian Ancient Bronze , dated between the end of the third and the beginning of the second millennium BC. 'uncertain function preciously decorated with engraving, found in Greece, Troy, Malta and Puglia (the latter two will arrive in Syracuse for the first time on temporary loan). The exhibition will be enriched with recently restored finds from the town: ceramic decorated in black on red, lithic industry, commonly used ceramics, witnesses of the daily life of a Sicilian prehistoric settlement.

The modern analyzes carried out in recent years on the faunal finds, the studies on coals and organic residues, have allowed us to reconstruct the environment, the fauna, the construction methodology of the huts and the eating habits in 21st century Sicily. B.C. In fact, from Castelluccio comes a large pithos which originally contained olive oil, the oldest evidence in Sicily and Italy of the cultivation of the olive tree. The large vase, now reassembled from hundreds of fragments after careful restoration work, will be one of the most important pieces of the exhibition.