A Late Bronze Age settlement and large cemetery of rock-cut chamber tombs in southeast Sicily, of the early 1st millennium bc. It belongs to the Pantalica culture, which is characterized by large urban settlements, of which Cassibile was presumably one, since although the settlement site itself has not been securely identified, some 2000 tombs have been found. Characteristic artefacts include a distinctive painted ware with plume motifs and a number of typical bronze types, including stilted and thick arc fibulae and shaft-hole axes.
The Macmillan dictionary of archaeology, Ruth D. Whitehouse, 1983