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Mokarta

a Pleiades place resource

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A Bronze Age settlement located near Salemi, Sicily. The site has multiple settlement phases, including the Medival ruins referred to as the Castello di Mokarta. A combination of excavation and geophysical prospection has revealed the remains of Bronze Age settlement atop the plateau as well as evidence for outlying necropoleis.

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Canonical URI for this page:
https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/776618356

Representative Point (Latitude, Longitude):
37.801294445, 12.7467375667

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Representative Locations:
- OSM location of Mokarta (2000 BC - 1000 BC) accuracy: +/- 20 meters.

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None

Mokarta makes connections with:

Mokarta located near Cresta di Gallo (unspecified date range)
Mokarta part of (physical/topographic) Sicilia (island) (2000 BC - 1000 BC)

Mokarta receives connections from:

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Place type:
settlement

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Pleiades

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Suggested citation:
Jeffrey Becker, 'Mokarta: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2020 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/776618356> [accessed: 11 December 2024]

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            {{cite web |url=https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/776618356 |title=Places: 776618356 (Mokarta) |author=Becker, J. |accessdate=December 11, 2024 4:14 pm |publisher=Pleiades}}

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