We will pursue three Research Objectives connected to specific issues that we intend to address:
- RO 1. Analysing the material culture, notably ceramic, from Sicilian late housing contexts to acquire new information about people’s attitudes, tastes, consumption habits, diet, and productive capacity (WP1).
- RO 2. Building a modern database that integrates both new and long-known data to ensure proper storage, firm verifiability, efficient exploitation, and rapid information sharing (WP2).
- RO 3. Exploring intra and infra-site artifacts distribution in order to shed new light on the causes triggering change or resilience in trade patterns, social behaviour, and cultural practices at different levels and degrees (WP3).
The expected results will impact the international scientific community through a fast co-edition of the contexts above (RO1), a new broad theoretical basis (RO2), and the first Sicilian digital Atlas of the Late Antique and Early Byzantine periods (RO3). They will also impact positively the wider public as well as the local economy, promoting an awareness of important but often neglected aspects of the Sicilian Cultural Heritage. This is a priority inside Horizon Europe's Pillar 2, Cluster 2, Destination Heritage.
WP: Work packages; D: Deliverables; M: Milestones: P: scientific paper; Da: Dissemination activities; Ca: Communication activities.