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The Astronomically Oriented Megaliths Of The Monte Jato Area (Sicily): The “Campanaru”, The “Perciata” And The Eneolithic/Early Bronze Age Worship Site Of Pizzo Pietralunga

Authors: Scuderi, A. ; Polcaro, V.F.; Mercadante, F.; Lo Cascio1. P.; Maurici, F. ;

The Astronomically Oriented Megaliths Of The Monte Jato Area (Sicily): The “Campanaru”, The “Perciata” And The Eneolithic/Early Bronze Age Worship Site Of Pizzo Pietralunga

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An imposing megalith is visible from many kilometres of distance near the top of the hill named Monte Arcivocalotto (Sicily). It is made by a single sandstone slab, shaped in triangular form with a large circular hole pierced at the centre. It is known to local people as U Campanaru (“The Bell Tower”) and it was considered as a magic place until recently. The megalith is oriented toward the sunrise of the winter solstice, when the Sun rises at the hole centre, becoming visible from a very large distance. At a few kilometres, on the top of another hill, significantly named “Cozzo Perciata” (“Hill of the pierced one”) a similar megalith was standing until to a few decades ago. It is presently collapsed, probably by a lighting, but the remains clearly show that it is oriented toward the summer solstice sunrise. Both megaliths have to be considered in the framework of the Eneolithic / Early Bronze Age worship centre of Pizzo Pietralunga, located halfway between Monte Arcivocalotto and Cozzo Perciata.

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Bronze Age, Megalithism, Archaeoastronomy, Sicily

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