The Kaukana Project is a collaboration between the Department of Humanities and Cultural Heritage at the University of Udine (Italy) and the the Marine Superintendency of the Sicily Region, with support from the Institute of Nautical Archaeology. Kaukana is the name of an ancient Roman village near Punta Secca, a small town in the Ragusa province of southeastern Sicily. The main objective of this project is the assessment, inventory, and study of underwater archaeological sites of the region in order to reconstruct their relationship with the surrounding coastal communities. Fieldwork began in summer 2017 with the excavation of the Punta Secca shipwreck, continued in 2018 with survey and in 2019 with the excavation of the columns shipwreck of Kamarina. This paper presents the results of those campaigns.

Il paesaggio archeologico sommerso e costiero del ragusano. Nuovi dati dal progetto Kaukana

Capulli Massimo
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Dario Innocenti
2020-01-01

Abstract

The Kaukana Project is a collaboration between the Department of Humanities and Cultural Heritage at the University of Udine (Italy) and the the Marine Superintendency of the Sicily Region, with support from the Institute of Nautical Archaeology. Kaukana is the name of an ancient Roman village near Punta Secca, a small town in the Ragusa province of southeastern Sicily. The main objective of this project is the assessment, inventory, and study of underwater archaeological sites of the region in order to reconstruct their relationship with the surrounding coastal communities. Fieldwork began in summer 2017 with the excavation of the Punta Secca shipwreck, continued in 2018 with survey and in 2019 with the excavation of the columns shipwreck of Kamarina. This paper presents the results of those campaigns.
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