Canegrate culture

Canegrate culture
Geographical rangeNorth Italy
PeriodBronze Age, Iron Age
Dates13th century BC - 12th century BC
Preceded byUrnfield culture, Polada culture
Followed byGolasecca culture

The Canegrate culture was a civilization of prehistoric Italy that developed from the late Bronze Age (13th century BC) until the Iron Age,[1] in the areas that are now western Lombardy, eastern Piedmont, and Ticino.[2][3] Canegrate had a cultural dynamic, as expressed in its pottery and bronzework, that was completely new to the area and was a typical example of the western Hallstatt culture.[4][5]

The name comes from the locality of Canegrate in Lombardy, south of Legnano and 25 km north of Milan, where Guido Sutermeister discovered important archaeological finds (approximately 50 tombs with ceramics and metallic objects).[1] The site was first excavated in 1926 in the area of Rione Santa Colomba, and systematic excavation occurred between March 1953 and autumn 1956, which led to the discovery of a necropolis of 165 tomb.[6][7] It is one of the richer archeological sites of Northern Italy.[8]

  1. ^ a b Cite error: The named reference Agnoletto pag. 18 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ Canegrate culture map
  3. ^ "Canegrate riscopre la sua cultura". comune.canegrate.mi.it settembre 2014. Archived from the original on 2015-07-01. Retrieved 2015-06-27.
  4. ^ Kruta, Venceslas (1991). The Celts. Thames and Hudson. pp. 93–100.
  5. ^ Stifter, David (2008). Old Celtic Languages (PDF). p. 24.
  6. ^ Cite error: The named reference Agnoletto pag. 19 was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  7. ^ Di Maio, 1998, p. 86.
  8. ^ Di Maio, 1998, p. 100.