Mokarta
a Pleiades
place
resource
Creators: Jeffrey Becker Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Creators: Jeffrey Becker Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Last modified
Jun 12, 2020 06:13 AM
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History
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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https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/776618356
37.801294445, 12.7467375667
- Representative Locations:
- OSM location of Mokarta (2000 BC - 1000 BC)
- None
- Mokarta located near Cresta di Gallo (unspecified date range)
- Mokarta part of (physical/topographic) Sicilia (island) (2000 BC - 1000 BC)
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settlement
- See Further:
Pleiades
Jeffrey Becker, 'Mokarta: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2020 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/776618356> [accessed: 24 September 2023]
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