The volcanic and seismic hazard that the Aeolian archipelago is subject to urges detailed multidi... more The volcanic and seismic hazard that the Aeolian archipelago is subject to urges detailed multidisciplinary studies on those potentially destructive events that probably occurred as volcanism developed along with local anthropogenic history over the last 7500 years. By examining the oldest human settlements in the Aeolian Islands, from which we may deduce the population density, as well as the behaviours and lifestyles of the inhabitants, the aim was to identify a link between the sudden and irregular cultural changes and the natural calamities recorded in the profuse Aeolian volcanological literature [Gillot and Keller, 1993; Kokelaar and Romagnoli, 1995; Rosi et al., 2000; Tinti et al., 2002; Speranza et al., 2008; Calvari et al.,2011; Francalanci et al., 2013]. Recent radiometric and paleomagnetic dating have established that significant phenomena affected Stromboli during its 5th life cycle between 13,000 and 4000 BP (Neostromboli). In particular, a major eruptive phase ended ab...
The lava platform and the three pyroclastic cones of Vulcanello constitute the northernmost vo... more The lava platform and the three pyroclastic cones of Vulcanello constitute the northernmost volcanic structure of the island of Vulcano (Aeolian Islands). The sandy isthmus connecting the platform to the main island was definitively formed in the first half of the 1500s; before then, Vulcano and Vulcanello were two close but separate islands. For a long time, the interpretation of the sources of the II-I century BC, had considered the islet as built up about 2200 years ago. This belief, which proliferated among naturalists from the 17th century, is not confirmed in the ancient texts or even in the geographical documents of the time, which do not indicate the presence of Vulcanello as a new and stable island near Vulcano. The islet would only be mentioned at the dawn of the second millennium, and named in Arabic “Gabal’ al Burkān”, meaning Mount of Vulcano; shortly thereafter the toponym changed to the Latin “Insulam Vulcanelli” and then, towards the 15th century, finally to Vulca...
This research project concerns the study, analysis and dating of obsidian flows on the island of ... more This research project concerns the study, analysis and dating of obsidian flows on the island of Lipari, in relation to the population of the Aeolian Islands, during the Neolithic period.The collection, processing and diffusion of Lipari obsidian characterise the Neolithic population of Lipari and the entire Mediterranean. By improving the knowledge of supply methods in the territory, it will be possible to formulate hypotheses on the chronology of the sources, the ways of collecting the raw material and on the mobility of the Neolithic communities in the Aeolian Islands. The scientific research is divided into two main topics: the first concerns the analytical and methodological aspects of archaeological and geological studies of Lipari obsidian; the second, the formation of obsidian at Lipari, their sources and lithological characteristics. Throughout the duration of this study we will perform new age determinations of Neolithic obsidian artefacts and geological samples, directly ...
“Lipari obsidian and Neolithic human communities in the Aeolian islands” is a project aimed at st... more “Lipari obsidian and Neolithic human communities in the Aeolian islands” is a project aimed at studying the connection between obsidian flows on the island of Lipari and Neolithic populations on the Aeolian archipelago, in Italy. As it is well known, obsidian is of particular interest to trace prehistorical trading patterns; indeed, Lipari obsidian has the widest distribution and has been found in southern France, Dalmazia, Sicily and mainland Italy. The project outputs will give a general vision of both archaeological and volcanological aspects through the stratigraphic and radiometric dating of eruptions which produced obsidian, in relationship with the first phases of the human settlements and row material exploitation. To reach this goal, we are considering both raw materials (geological samples) from different flows and artefacts from Neolithic settlements (archaeological samples) on the Aeolian islands, and performing fission-track dating to get the age of obsidian sources and artefacts. Obtained results are expected to shed some new light on the raw material procurement and on the ability of the Neolithic populations to move from their locations, with particular attention to the consequences of environmental features on the first human settlements on the Aeolian islands.
Vulcano Island, Italy. Starting from July 2021, and in particular from early September, the INGV ... more Vulcano Island, Italy. Starting from July 2021, and in particular from early September, the INGV monitoring systems have highlighted the variation of some geophysical and geochemical signals on the Island. In particular, signals were recorded related to the variation in the activity of the hydrothermal system that feeds the fumaroles of the Fossa crater and the degassing area of the Palizzi Caves, located at the southern base of the volcanic cone. On Saturday 2 October, the Italian Civil Protection issued an "amber alert" for the island of Vulcano in the Aeolian archipelago in Sicily, due to significant changes in various volcanic parameters. The Etneo Observatory of Catania of the INGV has therefore installed a temporary network to improve the seismic monitoring of the volcanic island
Macroseismic field survey for the 14 January 2014 earthquake, Aeolian Islands (Italy), performed ... more Macroseismic field survey for the 14 January 2014 earthquake, Aeolian Islands (Italy), performed by the QUEST team
The macroseismic surveys of earthquakes occurred in Sicily during the timespan 20142018, are he... more The macroseismic surveys of earthquakes occurred in Sicily during the timespan 20142018, are hereinafter presented. Analysed data mainly concern significant or damaging events located in the volcanic region of Mt. Etna, together with other regional shocks in southern Sicily and Aeolian islands. Data have been collected and processed following the guidelines of the QUEST working group (QUick Earthquake Survey Team) of INGV and then parametrised according to the procedures used for compiling the CPTI catalogue and DBMI macroseismic database.
Archaeological and historical studies, conducted since 1950, allow us to trace a hypothetical dem... more Archaeological and historical studies, conducted since 1950, allow us to trace a hypothetical demographic framework in which three crises extended over time, attributed by scholars to unfavourable social-economic situations or to war aggression, can be observed. A comparison of these three crises with the volcanological record reveals a correlation suggesting that the volcanic events had an effect on local anthropic history. The first crisis occurred in 4th millennium BC and involved all the Aeolian Islands, particularly Contrada Diana, the main Neolithic site of Lipari. The Diana Spatarella facies records: the reduction of the coastal settlement of Contrada Diana, the settling of Rocca del Castello, and the development of settlements in areas protected from volcanic activity. These observations support the hypothesis that Contrada Diana was exposed to the effects of tsunami waves created by the Sciara del Fuoco collapse on Stromboli, and indirectly to the eruptions of Gran Cratere of Vulcano that also caused problems for the sailors travelling between the mainland to Lipari. The second crisis occurred between 9th and 6th centuries BC and could be also be caused by the effects of the strong eruptive phase which occurred 2.9 ka at Vulcano and the tsunami produced by another sector collapse on Stromboli at the end of the Neostromboli. As during the first crisis, navigation between the mainland and Lipari would have been made difficult. The third crisis happened in the historical period between 6th and 11th centuries with a possible peak during the eruption of Monte Pilato which occurred in 776 AD in the NE sector of Lipari.
Anno 2009_Numero 67 in copertina La Fossa di Vulcano, il cratere (particolare) Coordinamento edit... more Anno 2009_Numero 67 in copertina La Fossa di Vulcano, il cratere (particolare) Coordinamento editoriale e impaginazione Centro Editoriale Nazionale | INGV
Volcanic activity resumed during early Middle Ages times at Lipari following at least 6000 yea... more Volcanic activity resumed during early Middle Ages times at Lipari following at least 6000 years of quiescence. This phenomenon occurred in a social context that had continuously developed from prehistoric times to the Roman age and was burdened by a demographic crisis that involved the archipelago between the 6th and 11th century AD. The rare archaeological records relating to the 6th - 11th centuries suggest abrupt changes in the population of the islands. The medieval sources are rich in religious and fantastic references to volcanic events linked to Lipari and Vulcano, testifying the uneasy condition for the human communities. This work concerns the resilience and adaptation of the communities to volcanic activity during the Late Middle Ages in Lipari. Starting from 1083 the Aeolian archipelago was involved in a repopulation program, implemented in 1095 by the Constitutum and organized by the Benedictine Monastery with the annexed S. Bartolomeo Cathedral on the castle. From t...
The volcanic and seismic hazard that the Aeolian archipelago is subject to urges detailed multidi... more The volcanic and seismic hazard that the Aeolian archipelago is subject to urges detailed multidisciplinary studies on those potentially destructive events that probably occurred as volcanism developed along with local anthropogenic history over the last 7500 years. By examining the oldest human settlements in the Aeolian Islands, from which we may deduce the population density, as well as the behaviours and lifestyles of the inhabitants, the aim was to identify a link between the sudden and irregular cultural changes and the natural calamities recorded in the profuse Aeolian volcanological literature [Gillot and Keller, 1993; Kokelaar and Romagnoli, 1995; Rosi et al., 2000; Tinti et al., 2002; Speranza et al., 2008; Calvari et al.,2011; Francalanci et al., 2013]. Recent radiometric and paleomagnetic dating have established that significant phenomena affected Stromboli during its 5th life cycle between 13,000 and 4000 BP (Neostromboli). In particular, a major eruptive phase ended ab...
The lava platform and the three pyroclastic cones of Vulcanello constitute the northernmost vo... more The lava platform and the three pyroclastic cones of Vulcanello constitute the northernmost volcanic structure of the island of Vulcano (Aeolian Islands). The sandy isthmus connecting the platform to the main island was definitively formed in the first half of the 1500s; before then, Vulcano and Vulcanello were two close but separate islands. For a long time, the interpretation of the sources of the II-I century BC, had considered the islet as built up about 2200 years ago. This belief, which proliferated among naturalists from the 17th century, is not confirmed in the ancient texts or even in the geographical documents of the time, which do not indicate the presence of Vulcanello as a new and stable island near Vulcano. The islet would only be mentioned at the dawn of the second millennium, and named in Arabic “Gabal’ al Burkān”, meaning Mount of Vulcano; shortly thereafter the toponym changed to the Latin “Insulam Vulcanelli” and then, towards the 15th century, finally to Vulca...
This research project concerns the study, analysis and dating of obsidian flows on the island of ... more This research project concerns the study, analysis and dating of obsidian flows on the island of Lipari, in relation to the population of the Aeolian Islands, during the Neolithic period.The collection, processing and diffusion of Lipari obsidian characterise the Neolithic population of Lipari and the entire Mediterranean. By improving the knowledge of supply methods in the territory, it will be possible to formulate hypotheses on the chronology of the sources, the ways of collecting the raw material and on the mobility of the Neolithic communities in the Aeolian Islands. The scientific research is divided into two main topics: the first concerns the analytical and methodological aspects of archaeological and geological studies of Lipari obsidian; the second, the formation of obsidian at Lipari, their sources and lithological characteristics. Throughout the duration of this study we will perform new age determinations of Neolithic obsidian artefacts and geological samples, directly ...
“Lipari obsidian and Neolithic human communities in the Aeolian islands” is a project aimed at st... more “Lipari obsidian and Neolithic human communities in the Aeolian islands” is a project aimed at studying the connection between obsidian flows on the island of Lipari and Neolithic populations on the Aeolian archipelago, in Italy. As it is well known, obsidian is of particular interest to trace prehistorical trading patterns; indeed, Lipari obsidian has the widest distribution and has been found in southern France, Dalmazia, Sicily and mainland Italy. The project outputs will give a general vision of both archaeological and volcanological aspects through the stratigraphic and radiometric dating of eruptions which produced obsidian, in relationship with the first phases of the human settlements and row material exploitation. To reach this goal, we are considering both raw materials (geological samples) from different flows and artefacts from Neolithic settlements (archaeological samples) on the Aeolian islands, and performing fission-track dating to get the age of obsidian sources and artefacts. Obtained results are expected to shed some new light on the raw material procurement and on the ability of the Neolithic populations to move from their locations, with particular attention to the consequences of environmental features on the first human settlements on the Aeolian islands.
Vulcano Island, Italy. Starting from July 2021, and in particular from early September, the INGV ... more Vulcano Island, Italy. Starting from July 2021, and in particular from early September, the INGV monitoring systems have highlighted the variation of some geophysical and geochemical signals on the Island. In particular, signals were recorded related to the variation in the activity of the hydrothermal system that feeds the fumaroles of the Fossa crater and the degassing area of the Palizzi Caves, located at the southern base of the volcanic cone. On Saturday 2 October, the Italian Civil Protection issued an "amber alert" for the island of Vulcano in the Aeolian archipelago in Sicily, due to significant changes in various volcanic parameters. The Etneo Observatory of Catania of the INGV has therefore installed a temporary network to improve the seismic monitoring of the volcanic island
Macroseismic field survey for the 14 January 2014 earthquake, Aeolian Islands (Italy), performed ... more Macroseismic field survey for the 14 January 2014 earthquake, Aeolian Islands (Italy), performed by the QUEST team
The macroseismic surveys of earthquakes occurred in Sicily during the timespan 20142018, are he... more The macroseismic surveys of earthquakes occurred in Sicily during the timespan 20142018, are hereinafter presented. Analysed data mainly concern significant or damaging events located in the volcanic region of Mt. Etna, together with other regional shocks in southern Sicily and Aeolian islands. Data have been collected and processed following the guidelines of the QUEST working group (QUick Earthquake Survey Team) of INGV and then parametrised according to the procedures used for compiling the CPTI catalogue and DBMI macroseismic database.
Archaeological and historical studies, conducted since 1950, allow us to trace a hypothetical dem... more Archaeological and historical studies, conducted since 1950, allow us to trace a hypothetical demographic framework in which three crises extended over time, attributed by scholars to unfavourable social-economic situations or to war aggression, can be observed. A comparison of these three crises with the volcanological record reveals a correlation suggesting that the volcanic events had an effect on local anthropic history. The first crisis occurred in 4th millennium BC and involved all the Aeolian Islands, particularly Contrada Diana, the main Neolithic site of Lipari. The Diana Spatarella facies records: the reduction of the coastal settlement of Contrada Diana, the settling of Rocca del Castello, and the development of settlements in areas protected from volcanic activity. These observations support the hypothesis that Contrada Diana was exposed to the effects of tsunami waves created by the Sciara del Fuoco collapse on Stromboli, and indirectly to the eruptions of Gran Cratere of Vulcano that also caused problems for the sailors travelling between the mainland to Lipari. The second crisis occurred between 9th and 6th centuries BC and could be also be caused by the effects of the strong eruptive phase which occurred 2.9 ka at Vulcano and the tsunami produced by another sector collapse on Stromboli at the end of the Neostromboli. As during the first crisis, navigation between the mainland and Lipari would have been made difficult. The third crisis happened in the historical period between 6th and 11th centuries with a possible peak during the eruption of Monte Pilato which occurred in 776 AD in the NE sector of Lipari.
Anno 2009_Numero 67 in copertina La Fossa di Vulcano, il cratere (particolare) Coordinamento edit... more Anno 2009_Numero 67 in copertina La Fossa di Vulcano, il cratere (particolare) Coordinamento editoriale e impaginazione Centro Editoriale Nazionale | INGV
Volcanic activity resumed during early Middle Ages times at Lipari following at least 6000 yea... more Volcanic activity resumed during early Middle Ages times at Lipari following at least 6000 years of quiescence. This phenomenon occurred in a social context that had continuously developed from prehistoric times to the Roman age and was burdened by a demographic crisis that involved the archipelago between the 6th and 11th century AD. The rare archaeological records relating to the 6th - 11th centuries suggest abrupt changes in the population of the islands. The medieval sources are rich in religious and fantastic references to volcanic events linked to Lipari and Vulcano, testifying the uneasy condition for the human communities. This work concerns the resilience and adaptation of the communities to volcanic activity during the Late Middle Ages in Lipari. Starting from 1083 the Aeolian archipelago was involved in a repopulation program, implemented in 1095 by the Constitutum and organized by the Benedictine Monastery with the annexed S. Bartolomeo Cathedral on the castle. From t...
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