The Early Bronze Age in North Eastern Italy: the Making of a Monumental Landscape
- Title
- The Early Bronze Age in North Eastern Italy: the Making of a Monumental Landscape
- Creator(s)
- Càssola Guida, Paola
- Editor(s)
- Borgna, Elisabetta
- Müller Celka, Sylvie
- Date
- 2012
- Is Part Of
- Ancestral Landscapes: Burial Mounds in the Copper and Bronze Ages (Central and Eastern Europe-Balkans- Adriatic-Aegean, 4th-2nd Millennium B.C.), Proceedings of the International Conference (Udine 2008)
- Pages
- 269-277
- Language
- eng
- Publisher
- Maison de l’Orient et de la Méditerranée Jean Pouilloux
- Place Published
- Lyon
- Rights
- free
- Abstract
- The most recent field researches in Friuli have demonstrated that at the beginning of the Early Bronze Age the landscape of the Upper Plain was largely shaped by kin groups settled in short-lasting hamlets. In order to assert their possession of the surrounding land, and to celebrate their ancestors, these small communities built a large number of round barrows of pebbles and earth, some of which have survived until the present day. About 1900 B.C. this landscape, dotted with tumuli, began to be developed with more substantial, longer-lasting settlements provided with defences of clayey earth. In the most ancient of these villages discovered so far, some burials were found inside the core of the rampart. This feature, as well as other – structural or ritual – details, indicates both the transition to a new way of living and the strong connection with the tradition of burial tumuli.
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