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For more than fifty years archaeologists have carried out excavations at the Middle Bronze Age Faraglioni Village on Ustica north of Sicily. They have revealed fortifications, streets, domestic dwellings, obsidian fragments and pottery sherds. Now, new geophysical surveys have found a previously unknown outer defensive wall which sheds more light on how the ancient inhabitants of the village protected themselves.
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00:00 Introduction
00:50 Prehistoric Ustica
02:38 The Faraglioni Village
07:16 Geophysical Surveys
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Russolillo, A., Martin, F.F., Merico, A., Sapia, V., Talamo, P., Materni, V., Pischiutta, M., de Vita, S., Furlani, S., Targia, D. and Di Vito, M.A., (2023). Unveiling a hidden fortification system at “Faraglioni” Middle Bronze Age Village of Ustica Island (Palermo, Italy) through ERT and GPR prospections. Journal of Applied Geophysics, p.105272.
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Images and diagrams from Faraglioni Village from the paper referenced above.
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Stentinello pottery, credit: Davide Mauro
Capo Graziano pottery, credit: Davide Mauro
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Rock-cut tomb at Thapsos village, credit: Archeo
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Mycenae, credit: Andy Hay
Google Earth
Location of Ustica
Location of obsidian deposits relative to the Faraglioni Village
Borġ in-Nadur Bronze Age wall and Thapsos pottery, credit: MegalithHunter
For more than fifty years archaeologists have carried out excavations at the Middle Bronze Age Faraglioni Village on Ustica north of Sicily. They have revealed fortifications, streets, domestic dwellings, obsidian fragments and pottery sherds. Now, new geophysical surveys have found a previously unknown outer defensive wall which sheds more light on how the ancient inhabitants of the village protected themselves.
#ancienthistory #BronzeAge #Italy
✨ IN THIS EPISODE
00:00 Introduction
00:50 Prehistoric Ustica
02:38 The Faraglioni Village
07:16 Geophysical Surveys
✨ JOIN MY CHANNEL
youtube.com/channel/UC0Hs5t0U6Uf993Tba22YmKA/join
✨ SUPPORT VIA PATREON
patreon.com/MegalithHunter
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Instagram & Facebook: @MegalithHunter
Twitter: @Megalith_Hunter
✨ REFERENCES
Russolillo, A., Martin, F.F., Merico, A., Sapia, V., Talamo, P., Materni, V., Pischiutta, M., de Vita, S., Furlani, S., Targia, D. and Di Vito, M.A., (2023). Unveiling a hidden fortification system at “Faraglioni” Middle Bronze Age Village of Ustica Island (Palermo, Italy) through ERT and GPR prospections. Journal of Applied Geophysics, p.105272.
✨ PHOTOGRAPH CREDITS
CC BY 4.0 DEED creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0
Images and diagrams from Faraglioni Village from the paper referenced above.
CC BY-SA 4.0 creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0
Stentinello pottery, credit: Davide Mauro
Capo Graziano pottery, credit: Davide Mauro
CC BY-SA 3.0 creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0
Rock-cut tomb at Thapsos village, credit: Archeo
CC BY 2.0 creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0
Mycenae, credit: Andy Hay
Google Earth
Location of Ustica
Location of obsidian deposits relative to the Faraglioni Village
Borġ in-Nadur Bronze Age wall and Thapsos pottery, credit: MegalithHunter
