Nascita delle aristocrazie e sistemi di parentela in area nord-lucana

The NW Lucanian territory plays a fundamental role in understanding the development and the construction of pre-roman societies in southern Italy. By the end of 7th century B.C. the population of this area seems to have had a deeper and stronger contact with different Greek groups of the coast. Many of these ancient Lucanian sites have been discovered and studied in the last few years, such as Torre di Satriano, where a very important social and political centre of 7th -6th cent. B.C. has been recently discovered thanks to the excavations. Recent analysis in the Ruvo del Monte necropolis showed as well, in the same period, the prominent role of ancestors’ memory in the construction process of local societies.