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Excavation

  • Trasanello Cementificio
  • Trasanello
  • Trasanello
  • Italy
  • Basilicate
  • Province of Matera
  • Matera

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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 second campaign was undertaken in May-September 2008. Work resumed on Trench III with the excavation of the deposits of the ditch fill. These were characterised to the north by layers of sterile collapse and disintegration of the walls, and to the south by layers of archaeological material relating to the Neolithic occupation (Impressed pottery, Graffita and painted pottery). North of the trench two sunken structures were identified. The first was filled with a sediment with a black clay matrix and occasional blocks of crumbling calcarenite. The second was sub-oval in shape and partial cut into the calcarenite wall. The fill was constituted by a dark brown clayey sediment and abundant fragments of crumbled calcarenite. These features produced a modest amount of archaeological material which post-dated the Neolithic period, thus they can be attributed to the reorganisation of the area probably during the metal age. Below and resting on the calcarenite bed-rock another structure delimited by calcarenite and limestone blocks was identified. It did not produce any finds.

    TRENCH V – trial trench in correspondence with a fissure in an outcrop: sterile.

    TRENCH VI (3×3 m) – opening of a new area south of trench III and in correspondence with the ditch fill. In this area the external edge of the ditch was rectilinear and well-preserved, whilst the inner border was irregular and the rock appeared deteriorated and friable. Moreover, a sort of hollowing was observed in the ditch wall. The trench was gradually widened in correspondence with the edges and two post holes were uncovered in the interior in R20 (hole 1) and R19 (hole 2). Widening of the trench continued on the side of the inner edge, where another three post holes emerged in R-S 17-18 (hole 3), R 16-17 (hole 4) and S16 (hole 5). The post holes contained material (pottery and baked clay fragments) datable to the Bronze Age. Their morphology was generally regular in size (diameter and depth) and distance between them. The alignment was more or less curvilinear suggesting the presence of a circular or apsidal structure. The only unaligned hole (5) may represent an addition to the structure or a subsequent alteration.

  • Lucia Angeli - Dipartimento di Civiltà e Forme del Sapere, Università di Pisa 

Director

  • Anna Maria Patrone - Soprintendenza per i Beni Archeologici della Basilicata

Team

  • Angela Fuggi - Università degli Studi di Pisa
  • Claudia Abruzzese - Università di Pisa, Dipartimento di Scienze Archeologiche
  • Edoardo Prediletto - Università di Pisa, Dipartimento di Scienze Archeologiche
  • Eros Nughes - Università degli studi di Pisa, Dipartimento di Scienze Archeologiche
  • Francesca Miglianti - Università di Pisa, Dipartimento di Scienze Archeologiche
  • Francesca Toscani - Università di Pisa, Dipartimento di Scienze Archeologiche
  • Marzia Gabriele - Università di Pisa, Dipartimento di Scienze Archeologiche
  • Matteo Graniti - Università degli Studi di Pisa
  • Sara Campigli - Università di Pisa, Dipartimento di Scienze Archeologiche
  • Simone Mora - Università degli Studi di Pisa
  • Giovanna Radi - Università degli studi di Pisa, Dipartimento di Scienze Archeologiche, Sezione di Preistoria
  • Gianfranco Lionetti - Museo Archeologico Nazionale Domenico Ridola, Soprintendenza per i Beni Archeologici della Basilicata

Research Body

  • Università degli studi di Pisa, Dipartimento di Scienze Archeologiche

Funding Body

  • Italcementi Group

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