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  • Afragola, TAV, V sottotratta, lotto 6
  • Afragola
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  • Italy
  • Campania
  • Naples
  • Afragola

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Chronology

  • 1800 BC - 1700 BC
  • 220 BC - 180 BC
  • 1 AD - 400 AD

Season

    • In lot 6, opened in the territory of Afragola, a drainage ditch orientated N 76 east was uncovered. Its fill was overlain by a road whose earliest level was datable to the end of the 3rd-beginning of the 2nd century B.C. In another two trenches on the same lot two surfaces were uncovered, running at right angles to the first, constituted by four overlying levels datable to the 1st -4th century A.D.
    • A dense series of human and animal footprints came to light in lot 6, as in other lots on the route of the TAV railway, above the primary deposit of the so-called Pomici di Avellino eruption (3457 + 66 b.p. 18th century B.C.). The footprints, which attest an intense passage of individuals and animals sometime soon after the formation of the deposit itself, are impressed in the various layers of mud which were deposited in the decades following the Pomici di Avellino eruption. Amongst the animal prints those of cattle, dogs, sheep/goat and horses were recognisable, often associated over vast, extraordinarily crowded surface areas. A three dimensional survey was made of the most important footprints with the aim of recovering completely new anthropological and faunal data, through the laser scanning of the ground surface.

Bibliography

    • F. Zevi 2004, L’attività archeologica a Napoli e Caserta nel 2003, in Atti del XLIII Convegno di Studi sulla Magna Grecia (Taranto 2003), Taranto: 853-923.
    • V. Sampaolo 2005, L’attività archeologica a Napoli e Caserta nel 2004, in Atti del XLIV Convegno di Studi sulla Magna Grecia (Taranto 2004), Taranto: 663-705.