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Excavation

  • Macchie Don Cesare(La Cabina)
  • Salve
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  • Italy
  • Apulia
  • Provincia di Lecce
  • Salve

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  • The Italian Database is the result of a collaboration between:

    MIBAC (Ministero per i Beni e le Attività Culturali - Direzione Generale per i Beni Archeologici),

    ICCD (Istituto Centrale per il Catalogo e la Documentazione) and

    AIAC (Associazione Internazionale di Archeologia Classica).

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Summary (English)

  • The area is scattered with tumuli and during the 2006 investigations six were opened. Two were revealed to be of no interest (tumuli 3 and 5) as they were of recent construction. In fact, the entire zone was subjected to land reclamation after the Second World War and it is possible that many known tumuli are the result of the clearance of land destined for agricultural use.

    Tumuli 2 and 4 were constructed with large blocks at the base and the fragments of impasto pottery present suggest a date within the metal age. Lastly, the typology of two of the tumuli qualifies them as funerary structures. Both were oblong in shape and inside were vases containing cremated remains, probably human.

    Tumulus 1 had a base platform comprising large blocks arranged inside a large cavity in the rock. On top of these, on the north-west side, were deposited three stacked vases, one of which could not be recovered, containing burnt remains. Scattered on the opposite side were numerous fragments of a small vase (now partially reconstructed) of the Gaudo style.

    Tumulus 6 was of the same typology: of elongated form and covered with stones and earth, in this case the base was formed by the bedrock itself. In the central part, below the covering of stones, between two blocks placed on edge, was a small intact Laterza style vase inserted into a truncated cone-shaped vase with a rim with impressed notches. This in turn was inside a third vase which can largely be reconstructed. Nearby were another two fragmented containers, human teeth and burnt bones.

    This evidence shows that there were two types of structure: one funerary attesting the use of cremation with offerings of three stacked vases and others of single vases; the other for cult use which may be defined as a sepulchral monument or a monument erected for ritual purposes.

    The settlement related to this necropolis has still to be found and the chronology of the area to be defined. In fact, it cannot be said that all the tumuli are contemporary, it may be that they were erected at different times between the 3rd and 2nd millennium during the continuous occupation of the area.

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Director

  • Elettra Ingravallo - Università del Salento, Dipartimento di Beni Culturali, Laboratorio di Paletnologia

Team

  • Maria Antonietta Gorgoglione - Soprintendenza per i Beni Archeologici della Puglia
  • Alberto Potenza - Università del Salento, Dipartimento Beni Culturali
  • Giorgia Aprile - Università del Salento, Dipartimento Beni Culturali
  • Giuseppe Chiriacò - Università del Salento, Dipartimento Beni Culturali
  • Ida Tiberi - Università del Salento, Dipartimento Beni Culturali
  • Massimiliano Passarelli - Università del Salento, Dipartimento Beni Culturali
  • Sara Dell’Anna - Università del Salento, Dipartimento Beni Culturali
  • Valentina Denuzzo - Università del Salento, Dipartimento Beni Culturali

Research Body

  • Università del Salento, Dipartimento di Beni Culturali

Funding Body

  • Università degli Studi di Lecce, Dipartimento Beni Culturali

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