The legitimate Iron Age sequel to the Neolithic and Bronze Age culture of Matera and Molfetta has not yet been discovered and the pre-history of Daunia, Peucetia and Messapia begins to take shape as a coherent whole only with the 7th century BCE. Even then our knowledge is almost confined to the pottery, but it offers a rich field for study.[1]
^For the main sections of this article, these primary sources have been consulted and referenced throughout the text: Walters, Henry Beauchamp (1911). "Ceramics" . In Chisholm, Hugh (ed.). Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 5 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. pp. 703–760. with its basic bibliography and notes, especially useful in the illustration of specific pottery; Stephen B. Luce, "Early Vases from Apulia", The Museum Journal, Volume X, December, 1919, Philadelphia: The University Museum, 1919, pp. 217-225; the essential texts by Michele Gervasio(it), Bronzi arcaici e ceramica geometrica nel Museo di Bari, Bari, 1921, for which see also E. Douglas Van Buren's synoptical review on JStor: Classical Philology, Vol. 17, No. 2, Apr., 1922, pp. 176-179; also Michele Gervasio, I dolmen e la civiltà del bronzo nelle Puglie, Bari, 1913; Filli Rossi, Ceramica geometrica apula, Bretschneider Giorgio, 1981, as well as his Ceramica geometrica daunia, Dedalo, 1993. Fundamental work is the German Maximilian Mayer, Apulien vor und während der Hellenisierung, B.G. Teubner, 1914 as well as his specifically researched Molfetta und Matera, Karl W. Hiersemann, 1924. Generally, compare the requisite David Randall-MacIver, The Iron Age in Italy, Clarendon Press, 1927.