The Final Bronze Age Settlement of Casalmoro (Mantua, Italy): Finds and chronology

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