Osservazioni archeo-topografiche sull’insediamento d’altura nel territorio ibleo (Sicilia sud-orientale): il caso di Monte Casasia

M. Casasia as a case study. New data from reconnaissance surveys and remote sensing - Paper’s aim is to demonstrate how the integrated use of remote and proximal sensing improves the reconstruction of ancient uplands settlements’ topography. For this purpose, the case study is the territory of the western sector of the Hyblean Plateau (Southeastern Sicily), where a sector of the cultural frontier-land between indigenous people and Greeks was located. The field surveys carried out were integrated with the synoptic analysis of remotely (aerial photographs, DTM, satellite images) and proximally sensed data, with the systematic coverage by drone footage of one case study, Monte Casasia (Monterosso Almo), key site in the Hyblean settlement system in the Greek era that was not urbanised in later periods.