The Sicanian tribes who made the crossing from North Africa to the island of Sicily were very different from their forebears who crossed the gap at Gibraltar five centuries before. During their settlement and habitation along the southern shores of the Mediterranean, their tool-making, culture, and social structures changed and evolved. Tool-making and agriculture took on more specialization, just as non-survival skills like pottery decoration, personal ornamentation – including beads, shells, and body painting – changed.
Belief systems also changed with a dawning awareness of the nature around them. The Earth Mother who had served as their primary divinity since before memory was now accompanied by other gods who supervised the world. Appeals to these gods took on more ritual practices,
