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  • Grotta di Pozzo
  • Pozzo di Forfora
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  • Italy
  • Abruzzo
  • Province of L'Aquila
  • Ortucchio

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  • The Italian Database is the result of a collaboration between:

    MIBAC (Ministero per i Beni e le Attività Culturali - Direzione Generale per i Beni Archeologici),

    ICCD (Istituto Centrale per il Catalogo e la Documentazione) and

    AIAC (Associazione Internazionale di Archeologia Classica).

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Summary (English)

  • This season’s research investigated late Pleistocene levels.

    In K9 and J9, the removal of “PS14” exposed the grey layer “grey lens on PS15”, lying between “PS14” and “PS15”, sloping N-E. Subsequently, the roof of “PS16/PS18” was exposed.

    In I9, “PS14” was redefined as “grey lens on PS15”.
    In the N-W quadrants, two black patches, in the form of small very irregular pits, were excavated.

    In H9, a residual patch of “PS13”, a strip of “PS13 bis”, a small section of “PS13 ter” and a layer interpreted as “PS 13 quater” were removed. Among the E-S quadrants, during the excavation of “PS13 bis” a semicircular patch of charcoally sediment was identified. Denominated “Black lens 2 of PS13 bis”, its section was “gutter” shaped and it could be the bottom of a manmade structure.

    In H8, a residual patch of “PS6D” was removed and the excavation of “Inter PS6-2” begun.

    In I8, the “black lens of PS6C”, containing abundant materials, also present in J8 E-S quadrants, and associated ashy lenses were removed.

    In J8, the “black lens of PS6C”, present in the E-S quadrants, was removed, and the edges of “PS6A III lens”, already exposed in the N-W quadrants, were defined.

    In K8, only surface cleaning of “PS6A III lens” was undertaken.

    In L8, the level “Detrital 3” was removed, exposing the edges of “PS6A III lens”.

    In J7, the “lens II of PS6A” was removed, exposing a very dark layer across the entire quadrant, which partially occupied the E-S quadrants in K/.

    In K7, the “lens II of PS6A” was removed, exposing a brownish layer in the central part of the quadrant and, in the N-W quadrants, the roof of “lens III of PS6A”.

    In L8, the “lens II of PS6A” was removed, exposing “lens III of PS6A” and an associated ashy lens.

    In addition, work was undertaken in the S-W quadrants of I11 and in the S quadrant of J11, on the levels underlying “structure 5”, defining and removing several layers in close association with it (ashy area; reddish layer).

  • Margherita Mussi Università degli Studi“La Sapienza” Roma 

Director

Team

  • Rita T. Melis - Università degli Studi di Cagliari
  • Luca Di Bianco - Università di Ferrara

Research Body

  • Sapienza Università di Roma
  • Università degli Studi di Cagliari

Funding Body

  • Fondazione Intesa Sanpaolo
  • Sapienza Università di Roma

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