Morgantina was settled by Sikels [Greek Sikeloi], indigenuos inhabitants about 1000 BC. On the Citadela Hill they built the period’s characteridstic long houses. Construction of a Greek-style urbanised settlement in the VIth century BC indicates growing Greek influemce.
See:
- Carla M. Antonaccio, Urbanism at archaic Morgantina, Acta Hyperborea 7, 1997, pp. 67-193 - https://www.academia.edu/3448502/
- Justin St. P. Walsh, Urbanism and Identity at Classical Morgantina, Memoirs of the American Academy in Rome, Vol. 56/57 (2011/2012), pp. 115-136 - https://www.academia.edu/1528264
- Kevin Lee, Setting and Settlement at Morgantina: Diachronic Patterns in Domestic, Agoratic, Sacred, and Fortified Space, 2014- https://www.academia.edu/16302333
- Alex Walthall, Randall Souza, Jared Benton, Preliminary Report on the 2014 Field Season of the American Excavations at Morgantina: Contrada Agnese Project (CAP) - https://www.academia.edu/28604511
- Jared Benton, Randall Souza, Alex Walthall (2016): "Preliminary Report on the 2014 Field Season of the American Excavations at Morgantina: Contrada Agnese Project (CAP)" - https://www.academia.edu/28632069
