La valle del Taro nell’età del Bronzo: Insediamenti ed organizzazione territoriale: Insediamenti ed organizzazione territoriale

This book focuses on the Bronze Age population of an area that corresponds to the modern administrative Province of Parma, Italy. In the plain near the River Taro, during the second half of the XIX century, Pigorini (the godfather of Italian palethnology) found the first sites of the so-called Terramare Culture. Since his pioneering work, many sites have been discovered and good regional studies have been published. This book starts from this heritage and applies a landscape archaeology approach. Due to the position of the study area, at the western side of the Terramare Culture region, it has focused heavily on exogenous material culture. For a better definition of the dynamics of the population both on the plain and in the mountains, different methodological approaches have been followed: spatial analyses of the plain sites and viewshed analyses of the mountain sites. Another area of focus is the borderland dynamics between the Terramare Culture and the so-called "western facies of the Italian Bronze Age", which runs in the mountains of the study area, and a rather original interpretation of events has been proposed. Finally, a comprehensive framework for the population dynamics in this key area is given. Front Cover Title Page Copyright Dedication Ringraziamenti Indice ELENCO DELLE FIGURE ELENCO DELLE TABELLE PREFAZIONE SUMMARY PRIMA PARTE: Quando, dove e come CAPITOLO 1: Quando: l’età del Bronzo CAPITOLO 2: Dove: l’area di indagine CAPITOLO 3: Come: il quadro metodologico SECONDA PARTE: Elaborando dati CAPITOLO 4: I siti CAPITOLO 5: I materiali extraterramaricoli CAPITOLO 6: Il contributo delle metodologie digitali TERZA PARTE: Il popolamento della Valle del Taro durante l’età del Bronzo CAPITOLO 7: Il popolamento del territorio CAPITOLO 8: Il confi ne tra facies terramaricola e facies occidentale QUARTA PARTE: Conclusioni CAPITOLO 9: La valle del Taro nell’età del Bronzo BIBLIOGRAFIA