Overview

Casalmoro lies along the Chiese river in the province of Mantua, in the northern Po Plain, and it represents the biggest known settlement area for Final Bronze Age Italy. This was one of the new settlements founded in the twelfth century BC north of the Po, in the region between eastern Lombardy and Veneto, after the crisis of the Terramare culture. This work provides a typological analysis and a chronological definition of the finds, and presents a significant amount of pottery and bronze artefacts for the first time. It then proposes a framing of Casalmoro in its regional context and in relation to other areas of the Italian Peninsula at the beginning of the Final Bronze Age. This settlement area constitutes an important context both for chronological aspects and to understand the processes leading to the birth of the proto-urban centres at the dawn of the Iron Age.

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Author:   Laura Pau
Publisher:   BAR Publishing
Imprint:   BAR Publishing
Weight:   0.925kg
ISBN:  

9781407356471

ISBN 10:   140735647
Pages:   232
Publication Date:   26 November 2020
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

List of Figures List of Maps List of Tables Abstract Foreword 1. Introduction 1.1 The settlement of Casalmoro 1.2 History of the research 1.3 Historical framework and role of the Casalmoro settlement in Final Bronze Age central-eastern/northern Italy 2. Typology of the Finds 2.1 Bronzes 2.1.1 Knives 2.1.2 Awls 2.1.3 Pins 2.1.4 Fibulae 2.2 Pottery 2.2.1 Carinated bowls 2.2.2 Carinated cups 2.2.3 Bowls transitioning to carinated bowls 2.2.4 Bowls 2.2.4.1 Truncated-conical bowls 2.2.4.2 Bowls with rounded profile 2.2.4.3 Bowls with angular profile, undecorated 2.2.4.4 Bowls with angular profile, decorated with a band of horizontal incisions on the rim 2.2.5 Pots with inverted rim 2.2.6 Jars 2.2.7 Biconical vessels 2.3 Zoomorphic clay figurines 2.4 Glass beads 2.5 Bone and Antler artefacts 2.5.1 Hilts 2.5.2 Antler mattock 2.5.3 Bone 'Wheels' 3. Chronology 3.1 Introduction 3.1.1 Final Bronze Age chronology in Italy 3.1.2 Final Bronze Age cultural definition in Italy and in northern Italy 3.2 Relative chronology 3.2.1 Phase 1 3.2.2 Types common to the phases 1 and 2, or of uncertain chronology between the two phases 3.2.3 Phase 2 3.3 Chronology compared with other chronological sequences 3.3.1 Phase 1 3.3.2 Types common to the phases 1 and 2, or of uncertain chronology between the two phases 3.3.3 Phase 2 4. Conclusions 4.1 Casalmoro in the framework of the Italian Final Bronze Age 4.2 The function of the pits 4.3 Casalmoro and the birth of the proto-urban phenomenon 5. Catalogue of the Finds Bibliography

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'The work offers a very good contribution in advancing our knowledge in the field of Italian and European Protohistory. A good reassessment of the chronology of the beginning of Final Bronze Age in northern Italy is proposed, that will have important consequences also in other Italian regions. Moreover, the results of this research offer important insights for studying the formation of the early proto-urban centres in northern Italy.' Dr Marco Bettelli, Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche

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Laura Pau is a Prehistoric Archaeologist. She graduated from 'La Sapienza' University in Rome and earned a PHD at the University of Padua. She is involved in researches and excavations in Italy, particularly in the northern regions and in Sardinia. She collaborates with Italian Institutions and National Museums. Her main interests focus on European and Mediterranean Bronze Age.

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