Thank you very much, although the given work starts only with the archaic (Greek) period it could help in some ways to find more about the Late Bronze Age situation. Yes, volcanic activity surely is an important part of Sicilian landscape archaeology.

You can find something helpful here:

Matthew Fitzjohn (ed.)

Uplands of Ancient Sicily and Calabria. The archaeology of landscape revisited

Specialist Studies on Italy 13

2007

And you can even contact me in private at [email protected] as I teach even a course about Landscape archaeology in Sicily at the Arcadia University, Sicily Center.

Thank you, I ordered three chapters of this book which seem promising to me.

Bronze Age Morgantina has been somewhat researched.  Environmental data is published in R Leighton's book on the Prehistoric Houses of Morgantina, (and elsewhere)  althought the results (from snails) conclude that the environment is the same as now (which is not correct, the specialist did not realise the snails were modern).  Other aspects of environment are in the course of study.  This is somewhat distant from Catania.  See the website for all details:  http://www.ed.ac.uk/schools-departments/history-classics-archaeology/research/research-projects/morgantina

I'd be interested to keep in touch as I am also an enviro person working in Sicily and Sardinia.

Thank you, Morgantina is what I call "single settlement" research, whereas from landscape archaeology I expect information about shaping of whole regions, especially by water construction works.