Summary (English)
In the Val di Comino the Proto-historian team of the Università di Perugia has conducted various investigations. The findings attributable to the ancient Bronze age reveal an occupation of the territory which included agricultural-pastoral activities, as well as hunting and fishing. The site excavated in the area of S. Andrea reveals a full occupation between the first horizon of the early Bronze and middle Bronze ages. It was probably not a fixed settlement, tied as it was to the seasonal agricultural-pastoral activities. The area also shows evidence of cults and agrarian rituals connected to fertility, indicated by findings of carbonized cereals at the base of the archaeological stratum and by a conical terracotta fragment, belonging to a horn, attributed by scholars to an ithyphallic or bovine cult.
Director
- Annalisa Zarattini - Soprintendenza per i Beni Archeologici del Lazio (sezione di Preistoria)
- Gian Luigi Carancini - Università di Perugia, , Dipartimento Uomo & Territorio, Cattedra di Protostoria Europea
Team
- Anna Riva
- Manuela Cerqua - Terrezza s.r.l. – Archeologia e Territorio
- Nicola Bruni
- Tommaso Mattioli - Università degli Studi di Perugia
- Italo Biddittu - Museo Preistorico di Pofi
- Rita Paola Guerzoni - Unversità degli Studi di Perugia, Dipartimento Uomo & Territorio
Research Body
- Soprintendenza per i Beni Archeologici del Lazio
Funding Body
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