Abstract P. Militello (University of Catania) and A. M. Sammito (Superintendence of Cultural Heritage, Ragusa) directed excavations around a necropolis of at least 90 rock-cut tombs at Calicantone (RG) in southeastern Sicily, which until then had only partially been investigated. As well as providing new archaeological data about the corresponding village in terms of its area, the research team also discovered the remains of an isolated bi-apsidal hut dated to the late Sicilian EBA (XVIIth–XVIth century B.C.). The hut is presumed as a funerary building primarily intended for the preparation of corpses for burial. Its position, directly between the village and the necropolis, demonstrates its crucial role in the sacral landscape, while spatial distribution analyses indicate that other commemorative rituals were conducted in specific spaces in, and around, the actual tombs. The paper presents a reconstruction of the ancient cultural landscape highlighting the possible passageway that connected life in the village with death in the necropolis, through the interceding funerary hut, and the location of potential ritual areas in the necropolis. Digital spatial datasets and visualization tools (e.g. topographic maps, shaded Digital Elevation Model (DEM), visibility analyses, 3D virtual models, animations, etc.) proved to be fundamental in the reconstruction of funerary activities.

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数字数据对理解仪式景观的贡献。卡利坎托内案（西西里岛）

摘要P. Militello（卡塔尼亚大学）和AM Sammito（拉古萨文化遗产监督）针对在西西里岛东南部Calicantone（RG）至少有90个岩石切割墓地的墓地进行了发掘，在此之前，只进行了部分调查。除了提供有关该地区村庄的新考古数据外，研究团队还发现了一个孤立的双栖小屋的遗迹，该小屋可追溯到西西里EBA（公元前十七至十六世纪）。小屋被假定为a仪馆，主要用于准备埋葬尸体。它在村庄和墓地之间的位置表明了它在骨景观中的关键作用，而空间分布分析表明，其他纪念仪式是在该地区的特定空间中进行的，周围的是真正的坟墓。本文提出了对古代文化景观的重建，强调了可能的途径，即通过插入的葬礼小屋，将墓地中村庄的生活与死亡联系起来，以及墓地中潜在的仪式区的位置。数字空间数据集和可视化工具（例如，地形图，带阴影的数字高程模型（DEM），可见性分析，3D虚拟模型，动画等）被证明是重建fun葬活动的基础。