Books by Santino Alessandro Cugno

Questo libro è una raccolta di 10 saggi su vari temi di archeologia e museologia della Sicilia sud-orientale. I primi quattro capitoli sono incentrati su problematiche relative a musei, Patrimonio Culturale e paesaggio, e su alcuni aspetti poco noti concernenti la formazione e la personalità di alcuni celebri studiosi ed intellettuali del territorio siracusano. I rimanenti sei saggi riguardano temi di archeologia e topografia antica: le emergenze archeologiche gravitanti intorno alla Riserva Naturale Integrale Grotta Monello; nuove osservazioni di carattere storico sul santuario rupestre di Cibele ad Akrai; i rapporti tra Indigeni e Greci nell'entroterra siracusano sulla base delle nuove indagini archeologiche nei siti di Cugno Case Vecchie, Causeria e Olivella; l'analisi delle tipologie, funzioni e caratteristiche delle tombe monumentali paleocristiane a baldacchino e delle chiese rupestri medievali con iconostasi; lo studio e la valorizzazione dei castelli medievali della Sicilia sud-orientale.This book is a collection of 10 papers on Archaeology and Museology issues in south-eastern Sicily. Two papers are focused on issues related to museums, cultural heritage and landscape, and two present some notable aspects of the cultural education and personality of famous scholars and intellectuals of Syracuse. The remaining six papers are related to the archaeology and ancient topography of the Hyblean plateau: the archaeological discoveries in the Riserva Naturale Integrale Grotta Monello; new chronological observations on the rock sanctuary of Cybele in Akrai; relations between Greek and indigenous archaeological sites in the territory of Syracuse, on the basis of new archaeological surveys in the sites of Cugno Case Vecchie, Causeria and Olivella; an analysis of the typologies, functions and characteristics of early Christian monumental canopy tombs and medieval rock churches with iconostasis; and the study and valorization of the medieval castles of south-eastern Sicily.With contributions by Ray Bondin, Franco Dell'Aquila, Iorga Ivano Prato and Paolo Daniele Scirpo and preface by Lorenzo Guzzardi

This volume is the result of a research project that, since 2008, has had the objective of studying and understanding the spatial planning and dynamics of rural settlements located in the catchment of the River Cavadonna (south-eastern Sicily) between Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages. The new archaeological and topographical data that has emerged from recent surveys, along with a preliminary review of documentary sources and place names, together with a preliminary census of all archaeological evidence known through the scientific literature and local erudition, may contribute to a better analysis of the historical context and topographical relationships of the ancient and medieval settlements in Syracuse's inland, and to their connection with the viability, and the peculiar geographical and strategic positions, of the ancient Greek metropolis of Syracuse and its sub-colony of Akrai. This book includes prefaces by Professor Giovanni Uggeri, Professor Emeritus of Ancient Topography at the University of Roma "La Sapienza", and Professor Dario Palermo, Full Professor of Classical Archaeology at the University of Catania.