Stentinello

Neolithic ditched village site Syracuse in Sicily, the type site of the Sicilian version of impressed ware, which survives later than elsewhere. Round-based dishes and necked jars have elaborate impressed and, distinctively, intricate stamped designs and multiple excised chevrons filled with white inlay. On some, a pair of stamped lozenges are combined with an applied knob near the lip to suggest a human face. The dates are c 5600-4400 BC.

A Neolithic ditched village site in southeast Sicily, which has given its name to a variety of Impressed Ware that characterizes the Early Neolithic of Sicily and also of Calabria, on the southwest Italian mainland. The pottery forms are simple, consisting mostly of bowls and jars; the decoration is much more elaborate than on most forms of Impressed Ware, with small impressed and stamped designs arranged in careful and often intricate patterns. Stentinello pottery has radiocarbon dates in the 5th millennium be and almost certainly continued into the 4th millennium.