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Fontana Nuova di Ragusa (Sicily, Italy): southernmost Aurignacian site in Europe

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

S. Chilardi ,
D. W. Frayer ,
P. Gioia ,
R. Macchiarelli  and
M. Mussi
S. Chilardi
Affiliation:
Soprintendenza ai Beni Culturali e Ambientali di Siracusa, Piazza Duomo 14, 96100 Siracusa, Italy
D. W. Frayer
Affiliation:
Department of Anthropology, University of Kansas, Lawrence KS 66045, USA. E-mail: [email protected]
P. Gioia
Affiliation:
Sovraintendenza Comunale alle Antichità e Belle Arti, Via del Portico di Ottavia 29, 00186 Rome, Italy
R. Macchiarelli
Affiliation:
Soprintendenza Speciale al Museo Nazionale Preistorico Etnografico L. Pigorini', Piazzale G. Marconi 14, 00144 Rome, Italy
M. Mussi
Affiliation:
Dipartimento di Scienze dell'Antichità, Università di Roma ‘La Sapienza’, Via Palestro 63, 00185 Rome, Italy. E-mail: [email protected]
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Fontana Nuova di Ragusa, a small rock-shelter in southeast Sicily, was thoroughly excavated by Bernabò Brea in 1949. In the far south of Europe — Sicily is nearly on a latitude with Africa — it has continuing importance as marking a southern geographical limit of Aurignacian settlement, and as proof of humans crossing the strait into island Sicily.

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Antiquity , Volume 70 , Issue 269 , September 1996 , pp. 553 - 563
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