Peloritani

The Peloritani (Sicilian: Piluritani, Italian: Monti Peloritani) are a mountain range of north-eastern Sicily, in southern Italy, extending for some 65 km (40 mi) from Capo Peloro to the Nebrodi Mountains. On the north and east they are bordered by the Tyrrhenian and Ionian Seas respectively, and on the south by the Alcantara River . The highest peaks are the Montagna Grande (1,374 m, 4,508 ft), the Rocca di Novara (1,340 m, 4,400 ft), the Pizzo di Vernà (1,287 m, 4,222 ft), the Monte Poverello (1,279 m, 4,196 ft) and the Monte Scuderi (1,253 m, 4,111 ft). The range is made up of a long series of peaks, with an average height of 800–1,000 m (2,600–3,300 ft), intermingled with ridges and ravines. The deep gorges house numerous streams that create the typical rivers of this land called fiumare, often full of deprises in their inferior flow. The most common rocks are of igneous and metamorphic origin. Sandstone soils are also present. Of unusual origin are the megaliths rocks of the Argimusco plateau. Historical-Archaeological Relations and Toponymic Analogies between the Ausonian-Auruncan Lazio and the Tyrrhenian-Peloritan Area1. The Scientific Framework and Archaeogenetic EvidenceRecent developments in international archaeogenetic research have shed new light on the population dynamics of protohistoric Italy. A fundamental study published in September 2021 in the scientific journal Science Advances — conducted by a multinational team coordinated by the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History in Jena and the University of Florence — has demonstrated substantial genetic homogeneity among the main populations of the Iron Age in central Italy (including Etruscans and Latins) . Biogeographic data indicate a common ancestral root linked to migrations from the Eurasian steppes during the Bronze Age, genetically unifying the peoples of the central Tyrrhenian area, historically associated with the Ausonians and...