The cultures of Castelluccio (Ancient Bronze Age)…
2637 BCE to 910 BCE
Both originate in the southeastern part of the island.
In these cultures, in particular in the Castelluccio phase, there are obvious influences from the Aegean Sea, where the Helladic civilization is flourishing.
The Bell Beaker culture, belonging to a western (Iberian-Sardinian) type, is known from sites on the northwestern and southwestern coasts of Sicily, previously occupied by the Conca d'Oro culture (late copper age in the Palermo region), while in the late Bronze Age there are signs in northeastern Sicily of cultural osmosis with the people of the peninsula that led to the appearance of Proto-Villanovan culture at Milazzo, perhaps linked to the arrival of Sicels.
The nearby Aeolian Islands host the flourishing of the Capo Graziano (on Filicudi) and Milazzo cultures in the Bronze Age, and subsequently that of occupation by Ausones (divided into two phases, I and II).
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