ArcheoLogica Data 5.1/2025

The contribution describes the legislative development of preventive archaeology in the last twenty years about the political objective of the feasibility of public works. In particular, the ‘good practices’ adopted by the Superintendence of Enna in the systematic application of invasive and non-invasive tools of predictive archaeological research to safeguard the archaeological heritage in the territories of competence are illustrated. The scientific results of the development of landscape archaeology are examined, which have led to the identification of the peculiar characteristics of the historical landscape of this part of central Sicily, through the perimeter of over 350 ‘areas of archaeological interest’, carried out to protect the territorial ‘Ambiti’ 8, 11 and 12 of the P.T.P.R. Finally, the framework for the rural occupation in the Roman period is traced within which the settlements of Cuticchi and Ficilino and the villas with mosaics of the Erei find a social and economic explanation.