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Canusium have been founded by the Pelasgians. According the tradition city was founded by Greek heros Diomedes and named for his hunting dogs. However, it is rather a later Greek founding myth of the Magna Graecia period. The first temains of the sett;ement date back to the Neolithic Age (6000-3000 BC).
See:
- Nunzio Jacobone: "Canusium. Un'antica e grande città dell'Apulia", Ricerche di storia e topografia (in Italian), 1992, pp. 11–13
- CANUSIUM (Canosa di Puglia) Apulia, Italy. in: Richard Stillwell eds.: The Princeton Encyclopedia of Classical SitesPrinceton University Press. 1976.
- Linda Gala, "Saupë ö castiddë" Archeologia leggera a Canosa di Puglia: dalle pietre alla storia, UNIVERSITË DEGLI STUDI DI FIRENZE 2013/2014
- Giuliano Volpe, Architecture and Church Power in Late Antiquity: Canosa and San Giusto (Apulia), in Housing in Late Antiquity (Late Antique Archaeology, 3.2), a cura di L. Lavan, L. özgenel, A. Sarantis, Leiden 2007, pp. 131-168.