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  • Trescore Balneario
  • Canton
  • Italy
  • Lombardy
  • Province of Bergamo
  • Trescore Balneario

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Monuments

Periods

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Chronology

  • 4000 BC - 1800 BC

Season

    • Open area excavations undertaken prior to the parcelling out of the area for the construction of new residences led to the reconstruction of the evolution of the zone from the first settlement in the middle to late Neolithic period until the beginning of the 2nd millennium B.C., when the sites prehistoric phase terminated. In the late Copper Age (Bell Beaker culture), the settlement, which extended over two separate terraces at the foot of the hills, was arranged along a road, which was very well preserved, crossing the settlement on a NW-SE alignment. The road, one of the earliest in Europe, was preserved with cart ruts for a length of 16 m. It was straight (width 1.60-1.70 m) and delimited on either side by a small channel lined with small stones. It can be suggested that the channels constituted the housing for horizontal posts whose function was the containment of the roadbed. The construction of the road was followed by the building of two huts, their rectangular plans delimited by post-holes. One of them preserved three hearth levels (358030 B.P., cal. 2.030-1820 B.C.; POZ-15089). Fragments of bell beakers and bowls with the typical decoration were recovered from the floor levels. The settlement lacked any regular spatial organisation and alternated cultivated and ploughed fields. The pottery was very badly preserved whilst there was abundant evidence of the lithics industry relating to all phases of the making of stone artefacts. The levels relating to the Bell Beaker culture were characterised by small arrow heads, both of the type with a short tang and without a tang. In the ceramic assemblage the bell beakers, of orange or leather coloured fine ware, did not appear prominent. They were decorated with angular combed motifs, reserved bands alternating with bands filled with dots and bands filled in with slanting lines.

Bibliography

    • R. Poggiani Keller, 2008, TRESCORE BALNEARIO (BG). Località Canton. Nuovi lotti di scavo nell’insediamento neolitico ed eneolitico e scoperta di una strada del III millennio a.C., in NOTIZIARIO 2006. Soprintendenza per i Beni Archeologici della Lombardia, Milano: 34-37.