entity · region_bi_terramare
Terramare settlement systems
Archaeological label for densely settled Bronze Age systems in the central Po Plain.
Review and provenance
Specialist reviewer: not recorded. Review date: not recorded.
Dataset workflow: proposed. This is separate from specialist review.
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Chronology
Dating intervals may describe uncertainty or phases; their width alone does not establish event duration.
1650 BCE–1150 BCE
Precision: broad archaeological range
- informs · defines or contextualizes
The collapse of the Terramare culture and growth of new economic and social systems during the Late Bronze Age in Italy — Claudio Cavazzuti, Alessandra Cardarelli, Andrea Quondam, Chiara Salzani, Roberto Ferrante, Luca Nisini, Corina Knipper (2019)Examines Terramare contraction and Frattesina's growth as a later exchange and production hub using archaeology and isotope data.
Locator: Abstract; Terramare collapse; Frattesina; isotope results; discussion
Research description
Terramare is a modern archaeological classification, not an attested people. Its contraction around the twelfth century BCE is locally specific and provides world context rather than a template for Atlantic Europe.
Properties and assignments
A label’s definition and the evidence for assigning it here are separate.
Archaeological label, not a people
The name is a modern archaeological classification rather than an ancient self-designation.
Why does this record have this property?
Terramare settlement systems is used as an archaeological classification and is not treated as an ancient people.
- The collapse of the Terramare culture and growth of new economic and social systems during the Late Bronze Age in Italy
supports assignment · Abstract; Terramare collapse; Frattesina; isotope results; discussion
Evidence and sources
- supports · defines or contextualizes
The collapse of the Terramare culture and growth of new economic and social systems during the Late Bronze Age in Italy — Claudio Cavazzuti, Alessandra Cardarelli, Andrea Quondam, Chiara Salzani, Roberto Ferrante, Luca Nisini, Corina Knipper (2019)Examines Terramare contraction and Frattesina's growth as a later exchange and production hub using archaeology and isotope data.
Locator: Abstract; Terramare collapse; Frattesina; isotope results; discussion