Scavi a Poggio delle Urne: campagna 2021

At the site suggested as the place of the discovery of the bronze hut urn seized in 1965, an excavated area of less than 100 m² revealed 25 graves, most of which had been despoiled or disturbed by illegal excavations. In the few intact burials, but also in the depredated ones, grave goods remains were found, allowing to date the use of this sector of the burial ground to the 10th-8th century. The earliest tombs, small cremation pits, are attributable to the generations that in the periodo iniziale del Primo Ferro consolidated the city of Vulci, born by synoecism at the end of the Final Bronze Age. Almost suddenly in the surrounding territory the numerous autonomous settlements populated by 500 1000 individuals were been abandoned, to aggregate on the great plateau of Vulci (as happened in Tarquinia, Cervet eri, etc.). Evidently, the new location and activity of a populous community (over 10,000 people) allowed for agrarian, industrial and commercial activities, even with transmarine trade, which were not possible for the population divided into juxtaposed, and often opposing each other, villages.