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The Final Bronze Age Settlement of Casalmoro (Mantua, Italy): Finds and chronology
Laura Pau
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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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Front Cover
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The Final Bronze Age Settlement of Casalmoro (Mantua, Italy)
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Copyright
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Of Related Interest
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Acknowledgements
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Contents
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List of Figures
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List of Maps
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List of Tables
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Abstract
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Foreword
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1. Introduction
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1.1 The settlement of Casalmoro
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1.2 History of the research
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2. Typology of the Finds
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2.1 Bronzes
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2.1.1 Knives
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2.1.2 Awls
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2.1.3 Pins
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2.1.4 Fibulae
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2.2 Pottery
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2.2.1 Carinated bowls
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2.2.2 Carinated cups
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2.2.3 Bowls transitioning to carinated bowls
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2.2.4 Bowls
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2.2.4.1 Truncated-conical bowls
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2.2.4.2 Bowls with rounded profile
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2.2.4.3 Bowls with angular profile, undecorated
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2.2.4.4 Bowls with angular profile, decorated with a band of horizontal incisions on the rim
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2.2.5 Pots with inverted rim
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2.2.6 Jars
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2.2.7 Biconical vessels
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2.3 Zoomorphic clay Figurines
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2.4 Glass beads
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2.5 Bone and Antler artefacts
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2.5.1 Hilts
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2.5.2 Antler mattock
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2.5.3 Bone ‘Wheels’
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3. Chronology
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3.1 Introduction
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3.1.1 Final Bronze Age Chronology in Italy
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3.1.2 Final Bronze Age cultural definition in Italy and in northern Italy
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3.2 Relative chronology
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3.2.1 Phase 1 (Figures 3.1–3)
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3.2.2 Types common to the phases 1 and 2, or of uncertain chronology between the two phases
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3.2.3 Phase 2
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3.3 Chronology compared with other chronological sequences
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3.3.1 Phase 1
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3.3.2 Types common to the phases 1 and 2, or of uncertain chronology between the two phases
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3.3.3 Phase 2 (Figures 3.9–12)
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4. Conclusions
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4.1 Casalmoro in the framework of the Italian Final Bronze Age
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4.2 The function of the pits
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4.3 Casalmoro and the birth of the proto-urban phenomenon
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5. Catalogue of the Finds
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Bibliography
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Back Cover
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Published: 2020
Publisher: BAR Publishing
- 9781407356471 (paper)
- 9781407355047 (ebook)
BAR Number: S3011