Abstract

For a long time, the important role of the central Tyrrhenian regions in the development and diffusion of metallurgy in the Italian Peninsula has been emphasised, as has the social and economic development connected with it (Bittel et al. 1968: 94–5; Barker & Slater 1971: 189–90, 193; Renfrew & Whitehouse 1979: 238–45; Skeates 1993: 5–10; Dolfini 2010: 707–9). Some of the principal Italian copper ore deposits are located in Etruria, a region where this metal emerges at a very early stage – the beginning of metallurgy in Tuscany occurred during the mid 4th millennium BC – suggesting that in these initial periods the metals were produced in smithing centres connected to local mining centres not too far from ore deposits (Ottaway 1982: 196). In a wider context, in Eastern Europe the metal appears around the 6th millennium BC: copper smelting slag comes from Vinča culture contexts, from the beginning of the 5th millennium BC (Glumac & Todd 1991: 10–2, 14; Giardino 2010: 234, 237–337). In central Europe copper objects and smelting slag have been found in the late Neolithic Austrian and Bavarian Münchshöfen culture in the second half

Autore Pugliese

• Giardino Claudio

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• C. Giardino

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ACCORDIA RESEARCH PAPERS

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2013

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0968-1116

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