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The Cave of Manaccora, Monte Gargano: Part I: the Site

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 August 2013

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In presenting the material that is the subject of this paper, it should be stressed at the outset that this is in no sense a full excavation report. The circumstances of the excavation itself and of its interruption, the subsequent loss or destruction of much both of the material itself and of the records of its discovery, and the death of Professor Ugo Rellini, who conducted a part of the excavation—the combination of all these circumstances means that such a report can never now be written. Nevertheless, the intrinsic interest of the material that survives and the preservation by Dr. Baumgartel of her own excavation notes have seemed to justify a more limited publication; and the main purpose of the present article is to present a type-series of the pottery and of such of the other material as has survived, and at the same time to record something of its stratigraphy and of the observed chronological sequence.

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Copyright © British School at Rome 1951

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References

1 Puglisi, S. M., ‘Le culture dei capannicoli sul promontorio Gargano,’ Atti della Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, 8, II, 1950, pp. 357Google Scholar.

2 Rellini, U., Battaglia, R. and Baumgartel, E., ‘Rapporto preliminare sulle ricerche paleo-etnologiche condotte sul promontorio del Gargano,’ Bullettino di Paletnologia italiana, L–LI, 19301931, pp. 43133Google Scholar: U. Rellini and E. Baumgartel, ‘Secondo rapporto preliminare etc.,’ ibid. LIV, 1934, pp. 1–59: cited hereafter as Bull. Pal. L£LI and Bull. Pal. LIV, respectively.

3 Bull. Pal. LIV, pl. VI.

4 For the exact location of the site, see Puglisi op. cit., p. 4, fig. 1; a photograph of the cave mouth is reproduced in Bull. Pal. LIV, pl. I, 2.

5 Bull. Pal. LIV, pl. X, 2.

6 These beads, which were corroded white at the outside, were analysed by the department of chemistry, University of Rome.

7 Bull. Pal. LIV, pl. XII, 9.

7a The originals of the sections drawn in colour, and which were redrawn in black and white for the purpose of reproduction are in the British School at Rome.

8 Bull. Pal. LIV, pl. XII, 6.

9 Cf. Bull. Pal. LIV, Pl. VII, 2.