Archaeology: Ingv explores the subsoil of the Villaggio Faraglioni. It contains a prehistoric settlement from the Bronze Age.
Geologists from the National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology (INGV) have begun subsurface exploration of the Faraglioni Village on the island of Ustica, Sicily, in collaboration with scholars accredited by the Himera Solunto Iato Archaeological Park of Santa Flavia (Palermo). It contains a prehistoric Bronze Age settlement, the best preserved in the Mediterranean region.
More than three thousand years ago, the village was populated by a few hundred people who had settled on a small piece of land overlooking the sea.
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However, community life suddenly stopped and today we find the remains of huts with furniture and furnishings abandoned in their usual position, as when one flees without having time to take anything away.
It remains an unsolved mystery as to what suddenly made survival in that place impossible. Among the hypotheses are a natural disaster, a mass deportation, or an environmental crisis. To learn more and investigate possible natural causes, archaeologists called upon researchers from the INGV (National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology) who, with experts from the Vesuvius Observatory in Naples and the Rome 1 Section, began a geophysical survey of the fortifications.
Ground penetrating radar and geoelectrical surveys will be conducted using survey techniques capable of exploring the underlying ground without excavation, down to a depth of a few meters, with the aim of uncovering the rooms, structures, and buried objects. The primary focus of the survey, in the initial phase, is the Village's great defensive wall, which is proving to be a complex fortified system composed of several interconnected structures extending over a vast area outside the wall.
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