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Fig. l: View of Egadi islands seen from Sicilian coast. Fig. l : Les iles Fig. 2: Strategie positions of Egadi islands in the Mediterranean Sea.
Egadi vues depuis les còtes siciliennes. Fig. 2: Position stratégique des iles Egadi en Mer Méditerranée.

An example of use of "non conventional" equipment 1.2- SCOPE OF WORK
for archaeological surveys has been realised in the context
of an agreement between the Cui turai and Environmental The project provided for the characterisation of the
Sicilian Regional Authority and CEOM fora Feasibility eventual presence of archaeological objects in the Egadi
Study entitled " Research and recovering project islands through:
of the archaeological heritage to realise marine );;> geomorphologic relieves for the identification
archaeological paths in the Western Sicily". In the ofthe bottom morphology an d of only partially submerged
month of June 2000, a survey has been carried out targets;
to verify possibilities and limits of electroacoustic );;> stratigraphic relieves for the identification of
and magnetometric instrumentation usually adopted for archaeological presence hidden by layers of sii t and clay
geologica} and geophysical prospections over large sediments;
areas. lt was over expected to identify targets from the );;> bathymetric relieves to realise high resolution
shipwrecks, occurred in the Egadi sea (fig. 2) during the images of archaeological relevant sites;
different civilisations taken over since Palaeolithic to the );;> differential magnetometric relieves through
Modem era. gradiometer to identify masses with mineralogical and

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