The Prehistory

Before being lived in historical age, the territory of Peschici has been for millenia center of prehistoric populations of probable transadriatica origin. Ancienti reperts they go back to the medium Paleolitic: tips, scrapings, burins and blades, beyond to splinter and nucleus, of clactoniano-levalloisiano type, insert in a " Mediterranean musteriano ", were found again near the church of the Madonna di Loreto Paglianza. But the culture more widely represented, on the entire Cape, is that one of the Campignano, attested from the medium Neolitic. Feature the tranchets to plan-convex section, the garganics chisels and the ceramics of type impres. To those along period the ceramics and mines of selce of Tragliacantoni and Valle Sbergna of Malanotte belong. Little it is known of the takeovers and the culture of this facies, than it is found again alone in part of the Veneto and France. The age of the Bronze is represented from the numerous ones reperts of the Cave "Manaccore", whose levels indicate one long frequentation: you arm and you ornament of bronze in the "dead cave" testify interments of warrios and of represented of one wealthy class. The painted ceramics seems of sub-Appennine type (VIII-VI century to C.). To the age of the Iron fittili stoves for the working of the latte ones, funnel, crest and tip spools and weights for the chassis, needles of bone for the leather, grinders for the mais, chip axes and tranchets for the lumber belong: all found again between the Manaccore Cove and the small village of Punta Manaccore. The necropoli ipogea of Monte Pucci, with 25 tomb of varied largeness and shape, place between the antiquity and the Middle Ages, without but limk clearly to some takeover of which, between the IV and the WAYS century, age of the necropoli has trace.