Early Neolithic Settlement of the Po Plain (Northern Italy)
Around the mid-19th century, several groups of archaeologists active in northern Italy discovered a few sites characterized by the presence of ‘hut-floors’ or ‘pit-dwellings’ (fondi di capanna), which they attributed to a well-defined period of their Stone Age sequence. Research in the central Po P...
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Around the mid-19th century, several groups of archaeologists active in northern Italy discovered a few sites characterized by the presence of ‘hut-floors’ or ‘pit-dwellings’ (fondi di capanna), which they attributed to a well-defined period of their Stone Age sequence. Research in the central Po Plain of Lombardy was resumed in the 1970s, allowing one to attribute some of the older discoveries to the Early Neolithic Vhò cultural aspect. The scope of the excavations, which started on one of the Vhò di Piadena sites in 1974, was to interpret the function of the previously discovered features, establish their radiocarbon chronology, and compare the finds with those of the Fiorano culture distributed across the eastern regions of the Po Plain. The main goal of this paper is to provide an international audience with novel information about one of the still poorly known Early Neolithic cultural aspects of northern Italy, namely that of the Vhò.
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| spelling | doaj.art-c74a2efb1a794b2a99eb28a507b1f7f72023-01-18T09:19:42ZengUniversity of Ljubljana Press (Založba Univerze v Ljubljani)Documenta Praehistorica1408-967X1854-24922020-12-014710.4312/dp.47.11Early Neolithic Settlement of the Po Plain (Northern Italy)Paolo Biagi0Elisabetta Starnini1Dušan Borić2Niccolò Mazzucco3Ca' Foscari University, Venice, ItalyUniversity of Pisa, Department of Civilizations and Forms of Knowledge, ItalyColumbia University, The Italian Academy for Advanced Studies in America, New York, United StatesSpanish National Research Council, Barcelona, Spain Around the mid-19th century, several groups of archaeologists active in northern Italy discovered a few sites characterized by the presence of ‘hut-floors’ or ‘pit-dwellings’ (fondi di capanna), which they attributed to a well-defined period of their Stone Age sequence. Research in the central Po Plain of Lombardy was resumed in the 1970s, allowing one to attribute some of the older discoveries to the Early Neolithic Vhò cultural aspect. The scope of the excavations, which started on one of the Vhò di Piadena sites in 1974, was to interpret the function of the previously discovered features, establish their radiocarbon chronology, and compare the finds with those of the Fiorano culture distributed across the eastern regions of the Po Plain. The main goal of this paper is to provide an international audience with novel information about one of the still poorly known Early Neolithic cultural aspects of northern Italy, namely that of the Vhò. https://journals.uni-lj.si/DocumentaPraehistorica/article/view/9530North ItalyPo PlainEarly NeolithicVhò sitespit-dwelling sitesradiocarbon dating |
| spellingShingle | Paolo Biagi Elisabetta Starnini Dušan Borić Niccolò Mazzucco Early Neolithic Settlement of the Po Plain (Northern Italy) Documenta Praehistorica North Italy Po Plain Early Neolithic Vhò sites pit-dwelling sites radiocarbon dating |
| title | Early Neolithic Settlement of the Po Plain (Northern Italy) |
| title_full | Early Neolithic Settlement of the Po Plain (Northern Italy) |
| title_fullStr | Early Neolithic Settlement of the Po Plain (Northern Italy) |
| title_full_unstemmed | Early Neolithic Settlement of the Po Plain (Northern Italy) |
| title_short | Early Neolithic Settlement of the Po Plain (Northern Italy) |
| title_sort | early neolithic settlement of the po plain northern italy |
| topic | North Italy Po Plain Early Neolithic Vhò sites pit-dwelling sites radiocarbon dating |
| url | https://journals.uni-lj.si/DocumentaPraehistorica/article/view/9530 |
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