event · evt_frattesina_growth
Growth of Frattesina as a Post-Terramare Port of Trade
Frattesina emerged as a major exchange and craft centre after the Terramare transformation, with evidence for mobile individuals.
What is the evidence?
observed evidence
- Large craft assemblages
- Long-distance materials
- Strontium-isotope evidence for mobility
proposed causes
consequences
The centre’s importance and mobility evidence are strong; its exact role in Mediterranean recovery needs further route-specific work.
Inspect the sources →Review and provenance
Specialist reviewer: not recorded. Review date: not recorded.
Dataset workflow: reviewed for v0.1. This is separate from specialist review.
Recorded dataset maintenance date: 2026-08-11.
Confidence describes the stated assessment; it does not certify expert approval. How review works.
Chronology
Dating intervals may describe uncertainty or phases; their width alone does not establish event duration.
1150 BCE–950 BCE
Precision: archaeological period
highsettlement, craft and isotope evidence
- informs · establishes
Mobile Elites at Frattesina: Flows of People in a Late Bronze Age ‘Port of Trade’ in Northern Italy — Claudio Cavazzuti, Andrea Cardarelli, Francesco Quondam, Luciano Salzani, Marco Ferrante, Stefano Nisi, Andrew R. Millard, Robin Skeates (2019)
Locator: pp. 624–644 - informs · supports
Was There a 3.2 ka Crisis in Europe? A Critical Comparison of Climatic, Environmental, and Archaeological Evidence for Radical Change during the Bronze Age–Iron Age Transition — Barry Molloy (2023)
Locator: Po Valley section
Event context
People and places
Locations: Frattesina
Participants: Frattesina, Bronze-Metal Exchange Networks
Properties and assignments
A label’s definition and the evidence for assigning it here are separate.
Resilient Continuity
Evidence of continuity, adaptation, rebuilding, or maintained production despite wider instability.
Why does this record have this property?
Frattesina grew as a long-distance exchange centre after the Terramare contraction.
Evidence and sources
- informs · establishes
Mobile Elites at Frattesina: Flows of People in a Late Bronze Age ‘Port of Trade’ in Northern Italy — Claudio Cavazzuti, Andrea Cardarelli, Francesco Quondam, Luciano Salzani, Marco Ferrante, Stefano Nisi, Andrew R. Millard, Robin Skeates (2019)Source relationship recorded for Growth of Frattesina as a Post-Terramare Port of Trade.
Locator: pp. 624–644 - supports · supports
Was There a 3.2 ka Crisis in Europe? A Critical Comparison of Climatic, Environmental, and Archaeological Evidence for Radical Change during the Bronze Age–Iron Age Transition — Barry Molloy (2023)Source relationship recorded for Growth of Frattesina as a Post-Terramare Port of Trade.
Locator: Po Valley section
Referenced records
- Bronze-Metal Exchange Networks · entity
- Frattesina · entity