+---------------+---------+-------+----------+----------+----------+-----------+-----------+ | | _Yellow | _Fine | | _Red | | | | | | surface | grey |_Mycenaean| polished |_Feather- |_Geometric_| _Siculan | | _Site_ | ware_ | ware_ | ware_ | ware_ | pattern_ | | Period_ | +---------------+---------+-------+----------+----------+----------+-----------+-----------+ | Milocca | + + | | -- | | | | Early II | +---------------+---------+-------+----------+----------+----------+-----------+-----------+ | Plemmirio | | + | | | | | Early II | +---------------+---------+-------+----------+----------+----------+-----------+-----------+ | Cozzo Pantano | + | + | -- | | = | | II | +---------------+---------+-------+----------+----------+----------+-----------+-----------+ | Thapsos | -- | + + | + + | | | | II | +---------------+---------+-------+----------+----------+----------+-----------+-----------+ | Pantalica, N. | | = | | + + | | -- | II | +---------------+---------+-------+----------+----------+----------+-----------+-----------+ | Caltagirone | | = | | + | = | + | Late II | +---------------+---------+-------+----------+----------+----------+-----------+-----------+ | Dessueri | | = | | -- | -- | | Late II | +---------------+---------+-------+----------+----------+----------+-----------+-----------+ | Pantalica, S. | | | | + | + + | + | Early III | +---------------+---------+-------+----------+----------+----------+-----------+-----------+ (= signifies very rare; --, not common; +, not unusual; + +, very common) Orsi’s sites at Torre Galli and Canale are urn fields, dated by the Geometric pottery (meander and swastika patterns, the latter perhaps to insure good luck) in the eighth century. They show a trade with Greece 150 years before the first Greek colony was founded in South Italy. [Illustration: FIG. 1.11 The Certosa situla. (D. Randall-MacIver, _The Iron Age in Italy_, frontispiece)] [Illustration: FIG. 1.12 Picene tomb-furniture from Fabriano. (F. von Duhn and F. Messerschmidt, _Italische Gräberkunde_, 2, Pl. 31)] [Illustration: FIG. 1.13 Chieti, Museum. The Warrior of Capestrano. (Italian Ministry of Public Instruction)]