Description
Imola Pontesanto. The Villanovan burial ground
The discoveries made by Giovanni Gozzadini shortly after the mid-nineteenth century in Villanova di Castenaso allowed not only to discover a protohistoric burial ground, but also to define for the first time an important civilization of the early Iron Age, the one that is still called Villanovan. Following the subsequent discoveries, the so-called Villanovan culture was mostly dated to the 1999th and XNUMXth centuries BC - a chronological period that in Emilia Romagna extends to the XNUMXth - and related to the formation of the major Etruscan cities. The most representative burial ground of this category is that of Pontesanto, discovered in XNUMX during an inspection in a locality located on the northwestern outskirts of Imola where a large splatation had been carried out
In collaboration with SAMI, Società degli Archeologi Medievisti Italiani
