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Visit to Museum - Pre-Historic Section - Neolithic Age - - |
The most ancient evidence goes back to the first phase of the Mid Neolithic and is represented by the "Culture of Castellaro Vecchio", from the name of an area that extends across the fertile plains of Lipari at around 400 meters above sea level, a place where people coming from Sicily settled, attracted to the island by the possibility to exploit obsidian (Fig.4). This culture is characterised by the production of a pottery made of a brown mix, rawly decorated with incisions or impressions (Fig.5), in the typical "Stentinello Style" (from the name of a village entrenched on the coast to the North of Siracusa), as well as by a pottery painted in three colours (Fig. 6), flames or bands of red outlined in black on a cream background (second phase of the Mid Neolithic - first half IV millenium B.C.), as well as so from a painted ceramic, very refined, decorated with motifs derived from “meander” or spirals design (Fig.7), in the classic "Serra d’Alto Style", from the name of a settlement in the area of Matera (third phase of the Mid Neolithic - mid IV millenium B.C.). The Neolithic Superior (end IV - beginning III millenium B.C.), the moment in which the inhabitants begin to move to the plain below contrada Diana, is represented by a special production of red pottery, of refined production of the "Diana Style" (Fig.8), which is found, almost identically, in other parts of the peninsula (Romagna, Umbria, Campania, Salento, Basilicata, Calabria).
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