THE SWASTIKA MOTIF IN THE CENTRAL MEDITERRANEAN DURING THE EARLY BRONZE AGE

Abstract

This paper analyses the diffusion of the swastika motif during the Early Bronze Age (EBA) in the central Mediterranean following
the discovery of some engraved potsherds bearing the motif in the EBA settlement at Piani della Corona (southern
Tyrrhenian Calabria, Italy). The rare presence of the symbol in the area of the Messina Strait during the EBA has driven the
search for comparisons within the central and eastern Mediterranean, in an attempt to better define its appearance in southern
Italy, likely as an element of transmarine connections.