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Monte Polizzo
37.8644° N, 12.7883° E
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Monte Polizzo (today Mount Polizo) is an archaeological site located 6 km northwest of the town of Salemi, in the province of Trapani, western Sicily, southern Italy. It occupies an easily defended hilltop, from which a vast area of western Sicily can be seen, and consists of an interconnected group of ridges, the highest point of which is 725.9 m (2359 feet) above sea level. The settlement has been dated to c. 9th - 4th centuries BC. The Monte Polizzo Project is a group of international scholars who are interested in the ancient Elymians of western Sicily, and their Early Iron Age origins, development and eventual collapse. It also aims to investigate the process of Hellenisation and the influence of Phoenician and Greek occupations of western Sicily during the archaic period.
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Settlement occupation
9th–4th centuries BC
1970 trial excavations
1970
1996 international project established
1996
House 1 excavation
1998–2001
Michael Kolb regional survey begins
1998
1998 Sicilian-Scandinavian project launched
1998
Stanford involvement and acropolis work
1999–2002
Western excavations reveal more houses
2002
Fieldwork drawn to a close
2006
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