The goal of this project is to describe human landscape transformations around four hilltop settlements as indigenous and foreign economic production and political control expanded and declined over time. These hilltops are Mokarta (Late Bronze Age) Montagne Grande (Early Iron Age), Monte Polizzo (Early Iron Age), and Salemi (Colonial Era). This project utilizes a systematic procedure of regional survey and site excavation to help describe these transformations and examine long-term cultural change through more than a dozen cultural contexts.

The Regional Map. Click on the figure for more detail.

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