Department of Archaeology

The Troina Project

The Troina Project has a detailed web site at:

• http://www.arch.cam.ac.uk/troina/

Project Directors

• Dr Caroline Malone (Queen's Belfast)
• Dr Simon Stoddart (University of Cambridge)
• Dr Charly French (University of Cambridge)
• Mr Nicholas Whitehead (Milan)
• Mr Steven Ashley (Norwich)

Project Manager

• Ms Lucy Walker (troina@arch.cam.ac.uk)

Collaborating Institutions and Project Members

• Comune di Troina
• Department of Archaeology, University of Cambridge
• L'Oasi (Troina)
• Istituto di Geologia e Geofisica (Università di Catania) (Prof. D. Puglisi)
• Soprintendenza Beni Culturali, Enna. (Dott. L. Guzzardi)
• Dr Richard Bailey, University of Oxford
• Dr Gianna Ayala, University of Sheffield
• Dr Matthew Fitzjohn, University of Liverpool

Financial Support

• British Academy
• Comune di Troina
• McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research (University of Cambridge)
• L'Oasi (Troina)

Research aims

Troina is a small town, set at over 1000 m, to the west of Mount Etna, which controls routes to the Nebrodi mountains and the north coast from the fertile plain of Catania to the south. The modern administrative territory of the town co ntains uplands and lowland valleys descending to about 300 m. a.s.l.

The project is developing a strategy of regional survey (followed by selective excavation) to investigate the long-term archaeological history of the Troina region. Three particular foci will be addressed:

• Examination of the ancient environment from c.100,000 BC to modern times.
• The expansion of human populations into the upland areas from the lowland plains (e.g. Catania), focusing on the Neolithic/Bronze Age transition.
• The formation of the territorial identity of Troina, which is likely to have taken place from the end of the Bronze Age, and the developing relations between indigenous and Greek populations.

There is a strong Roman and Medieval component to the project.

Current results

A full publication record of the project

2000 season (excavation): An Antiquity article `A house in the Sicilian hills' (vol 74, pp 471--2) in PDF.

2000 season (survey): Summary in Word 97/8.0 format

The Troina Project has a detailed web site at:

• http://www.arch.cam.ac.uk/troina/

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