“You said 2000 to 1500 B.C., right?” I asked.
“Sì, for the Sicanians,” Vito replied. “Why?”
Sì, I consulted my notes, flipping pages in my journal, looking for something that seemed on the edge of my consciousness.
“Here,” I said, pointing to the hastily scribbled note in the middle of a page, but circled.
“The Elymians arrived around 1200 B.C.”
“Sì.”
Sì.“But they came all the way from Turkey. I mean Anatolia.”
“Sì.”
Sì.“So, if they arrived around 1200 B.C., and they traveled every bit as far as the Sicanians had to, the Elymians must have started their migration hundreds of years earlier.”
“Sì, that’s correct. We don’t have a departure date, exactly. The Sicanians were driven from Iberia by tribes of Ligurians that pushed them west, and across the Gibraltar divide. So, we have so
