Etruscan transport amphoraCredit : N. Johansson
Posted on 10/12/2021 2:48:57 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
In general, historiography concerning ancient Sicily is overwhelmingly Greco-centric, i.e. focused on its Greek immigrants. Because the indigenous population’s architectonic remains are relatively invisible, whilst those of the Greek immigrants are monumental, the accepted historiography has been that the indigenous population had neither territory, power nor economic resources.
It was instead accepted that as soon as the Greeks had established themselves on the island (on the western side in 628 BCE) they colonised and controlled the majority of the Sicilian lowlands, the economy and thus also the indigenous population.
This outlook has contributed to an imbalance and a distorted picture of the role of the indigenous population – the people that Greek historian Thukydides called the Elymians – in the natural, cultural and economic landscapes of western Sicily during the Archaic period (700-500 BCE), according to Cecilia Sandström, a doctoral student in classical archaeology and ancient history at the University of Gothenburg...
The site of her study is the Elymian settlement of Monte Polizzo, situated in western Sicily and strategically positioned on a mountain, about 700 metres above sea level and around 20 km from the west coast – midway between the Phoenician settlement of Motya, the Greek settlement of Selinunte and the bigger Elymian settlement of Segesta.
“Monte Polizzo was only inhabited for 75 years, between 625 and 550 BCE. The roughly 20 hectare settlement was abandoned after a major fire that destroyed every building except the religious temple at the acropolis.”
(Excerpt) Read more at heritagedaily.com ...
Etruscan transport amphoraCredit : N. Johansson
This outlook has contributed to an imbalance and a distorted picture of the role of the indigenous population – the people that Greek historian Thukydides called the Elymians...
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Probably Phoenicians. They’re all ancient Phoenicians.
Of course they were traders. Sicily lies athwart so many trade routes. One reason they’ve been conquered so many times.
Interesting
If civilization was born somewhere between the Tigris and Euphrates then there are very few truly indigenous people anywhere on earth. Maybe none at all.
By “indigenous” they don’t mean white right?
Even when referring to Sicily or Poland.
I bet a lot of jars of olive oil just happened to fall off the oxcart…
“This is such a nice oxcart, shame if anything happened to it...”
As traders, the Sicilians were the originators of the concept “an offer you can’t refuse”
Didn’t much care for the lemonade there. Too much pulp.
Dave Ramsey says buy and hold.
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