The kinds of archaeological contexts that usually yield noticeable amount of adornments are the cemeteries. Nonetheless, the settlement of Coppa Nevigata has provided us with a significant documentation as regards this category of artefacts. Apart from some random specimens that probably ended up in the deposit incidentally, there are two groups of findings whose depositional process appears to be peculiar, for different reasons. The first group of adornments come from Early Apennine (15th century BC) funerary contexts located inside the settlement, which is indeed a unique piece of evidence in the framework of Bronze Age central and southern Italy. The latter group includes artefacts made of various raw materials, ranging from bronze studs to amber and rock crystal beads, to bone pinhead, coming from Recent Bronze Age deposits. As none of these deposits resulted from sudden destructions, the question is why were discarded artefacts that were in good repair and could have easily been reused? The most interesting case in that respect is a series of bronze studs, probably attached to an organic base, which have been found still arranged in a row, as if the original adornment they belonged to had been left exactly in that spot.
Elementi di ornamento dall'abitato dell'età del bronzo di Coppa Nevigata / Cazzella, Alberto; Recchia, G.. - STAMPA. - 1:12(2016), pp. 359-372. (Intervento presentato al convegno Atti del dodicesimo incontro di studi Preistoria e protostoria in Etruria tenutosi a Valentano - Pitigliano - Manciano; Italy).
Elementi di ornamento dall'abitato dell'età del bronzo di Coppa Nevigata
CAZZELLA, Alberto;Recchia G.
2016
Abstract
The kinds of archaeological contexts that usually yield noticeable amount of adornments are the cemeteries. Nonetheless, the settlement of Coppa Nevigata has provided us with a significant documentation as regards this category of artefacts. Apart from some random specimens that probably ended up in the deposit incidentally, there are two groups of findings whose depositional process appears to be peculiar, for different reasons. The first group of adornments come from Early Apennine (15th century BC) funerary contexts located inside the settlement, which is indeed a unique piece of evidence in the framework of Bronze Age central and southern Italy. The latter group includes artefacts made of various raw materials, ranging from bronze studs to amber and rock crystal beads, to bone pinhead, coming from Recent Bronze Age deposits. As none of these deposits resulted from sudden destructions, the question is why were discarded artefacts that were in good repair and could have easily been reused? The most interesting case in that respect is a series of bronze studs, probably attached to an organic base, which have been found still arranged in a row, as if the original adornment they belonged to had been left exactly in that spot.File | Dimensione | Formato | |
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