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Oppeano. Vecchi e nuovi dati sul centro protourbano, Quaderni di Archeologia del Veneto, Serie speciale
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Life and death in the Middle Bronze Age. The case study of the necropolis of Olmo di Nogara,Verona (Italy)
No full textNuovi ritrovamenti di ceramiche di tipo egeo dall'area veronese: Lovara, Bovolone e Terranegra
No full textSi presentano ceramiche di tipo egeo provenienti da tre nuovi siti dell’area padana, corredate dai primi risultati di analisi archeometriche. I materiali da Bovolone, dal punto di vista archeologico, hanno una buona rispondenza tipologica e qualitativa con le produzioni egee, mentre quelli da Lovara e Terranegra presentano non poche peculiarità. Nel primo caso è adottata una tecnica decorativa mista di pittura opaca e semilustra; nel secondo caso la decorazione dipinta è adoperata eccezionalmente su ceramica di impasto. I risultati delle analisi, che dovranno essere ulteriormente approfonditi, suggeriscono fabbricazione locale o italo-micenea da altre aree italian
Studio microstrutturale di antichi manufatti in bronzo: il ripostiglio nei depositi di Frattesina di Fratta Polesine (RO)
No full textRiassunto presentato al Convegno Nazionale AIAr, " INNOVAZIONI TECNOLOGICHE PER I BENI CULTURALI IN ITALIA", Caserta, 16-18 febbraio 200
Analisi tipologica e archeometrica degli elementi da presa dell’abitato di Larda 2 di Gavello (Rovigo)
No full textThis paper reports on the typological and archaeometrical study of the grip elements of pottery found in 2006 and 2007 during rescue excavation at the Larda 2 settlement (Gavello, Rovigo, north-eastern Italy). Placed within the middle Polesine territory at 15 km south-east of the present town of Rovigo, this site is located on the ancient Po di Adria, a palaeo-branch of the Po river, from which it was separated and shielded by an artificial and scarcely prominent embankment. On the basis of both the excavation report and preliminary typological observations on the grip elements of pottery (ring handles, straight-cylinder knobs, ribbon handles with raised edge and perforated apex, handles with protruding lobe and rostrum sometimes with hole, ribbon handles, hare-ear shaped handles, channelled handles), two different settling phases were recognised for the Late Bronze Age I, attesting occupation contemporaneous to the settlement of Larda 1, located only few hundred meters to the east. Some of the grip elements resulted typologically
related to shapes found in coeval sites of the central-southern
Venetian and Friulian territories, whilst others display a sub-Apennine style resembling that of the Terramare culture from the Emilian-Romagnole and Tuscan areas. Some of these types are also attested, although sporadically, in coeval sites in the southern Italy, indicating a wide diffusion of patterns during this period.
Archaeometric characterisation was carried out on 41 selected samples, and aimed to assess the main technological features, such as the temperature and redox firing conditions, locate possible source areas of the raw materials, identify possible allochthonous items among those
displaying a sub-Apennine character. Under optical microscope, Matrix resulted rather depurated and petrographically heterogeneous, with a fine- to medium-fine-grained texture and inclusions of grog, quartz, micas and ore minerals up to 30% vol. These textural elements allowed recognising two main petrographic groups and a number of
subgroups. Most of the samples are compatible with a local source of the raw material and similar to the pottery production at the nearby site of Larda 1. Two samples are petrographically similar to those of the Final Bronze Age site of Saline (San Martino di Venezze, Rovigo), located on the alluvial deposits of the Adige river, 12 km north-west of
Gavello. They are characterised by poly-crystalline quartz grains, volcanic rock fragments and feldspars, which are abundant in the Adige river deposits of the lower plain. Mineral assemblages determined by xrpd revealed a wide range of firing temperatures, from 500-550°C to above 950°C, and both reducing and oxidising redox firing conditions
which determined a considerable colour variability and sandwich effects of the pottery.
Data here presented reveal typically local cultural and technological characteristics employed to formal models widely diffused in most of the Po Valley and, less frequently, in the Italian mainland. These observations are also confirmed by archaeometric data suggesting a local pottery production with possible medium-distance exchanges
Patterns of funerary variability, diet, and developmental stress in a Celtic population from NE Italy (3rd-1st c BC)
No full textLittle is known about the types of social organization characterizing the pre-Roman Celtic populations of Italy. Here, we explore the funerary variability characterizing the late Iron Age site of Seminario Vescovile (SV: Verona, Italy, 3rd-1st c. BC), and test its possible correlation to diet and relative exposure to developmental stressors. Patterns on funerary treatment (N = 125), δ13C and δ15N (N = 90), and linear enamel hypoplasia (N = 47) from SV are compared, and their possible association with sex and age-at-death further discussed. Results point to the presence at SV of variable funerary customs while at the same time demonstrating a rather homogenous diet and exposure to developmental stressors: funerary treatment is mainly correlated to age-at-death but do not appear to be associated to either isotopic patterns or hypoplasia frequencies. Accordingly, even if some weak social differentiation may have characterized the individuals buried at SV, this was not reflected in markedly differing living conditions. Our study is the first to attempt an exploration of the links between age, sex, funerary variability, and diet in a pre-Roman Celtic community from Italy. While highlighting the potential of a multifaceted approach in bioarcheology, it also points to a series of analytical and theoretical issues relevant when trying to disentangle the cultural and biological dimensions of social differentiation in the past
Ritual treatment of weapons as a correlate of structural change in the Italian LBA communities: the bronze hoard of Pila del Brancon (Nogara, Verona)
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