出版社：Associazione Internazionale di Archeologia Classica
摘要：In Spring 2018, a second archaeological campaign was carried out in the rural site of Contrada Castro (Corleone, Pa-lermo). The main aim was to investigate a building just partially excavated in 2017. The results of this excavation con-firmed the sequence, which starts from the late archaic/classical period and then continues with a new settlement from the Byzantine to the Islamic period. Over the collapse layers of some stone structures, not entirely investigated, of the late 6th-5th c. BC a probable area for peri-natal burials was created during the 7th-early/mid- 8th c. AD. This marginal cemetery area was replaced by a rectangular building for craft activities for pottery production. In fact, in the first phase of this building two pottery kilns were associated with large amounts of productive wastes. The production activities were relatively brief, and one of the kilns was probably reused as an oven. Radiocarbon dating confirmed the use of this build-ing from the late 8th c. AD to the 9th c. AD when it was apparently abandoned: there are no signs of fire or violent de-struction. During the 10thc. AD this building was no longer visible and new wall was built with a completely different orien-tation. The Islamic occupation, covering the entire 10th and 11th c. AD, was heavily damaged by post-abandonment ac-tivities of spoliation of stone and agro-pastoral practices that occurred during the last century.
