Villanovan culture
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The Villanovan culture (c. 900–700 BC), regarded as the earliest phase of the Etruscan civilization,[1][2][3][4][5] was the earliest Iron Age culture of Italy. It directly followed the Bronze Age Proto-Villanovan culture which branched off from the Urnfield culture of Central Europe.[6] The name derives from the locality of Villanova, a fraction of the municipality of Castenaso in the Metropolitan City of Bologna where, between 1853 and 1855, Giovanni Gozzadini found the remains of a necropolis, bringing to light 193 tombs, of which there were 179 cremations and 14 inhumations.[7]
Geographical range | Europe (Italy: Emilia-Romagna, Tuscany, Lazio, Campania) |
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Period | Early Iron Age, Early phases of the Etruscan civilization |
Dates | c. 900–700 BC |
Preceded by | Proto-Villanovan culture |
Followed by | Orientalizing period (later 700–500 BC) of the Etruscan civilization |
The Villanovans introduced iron-working to the Italian Peninsula. They practiced cremation and buried the ashes of their dead in pottery urns of distinctive double-cone shape.[8]