Il sito perilacustre di epoca protostorica di loc. Paduli (Colli sul Velino, RI). Indagini di superficie 2011-2013 e saggio di scavo 2015

Since 2011 the Sapienza-University of Rome has started a territorial research project in the Conca Velina and in the Piediluco lake aimed at the diachronic reconstruction of the human population. An in-depth focus for protohistory is the excavation of the lakeshore settlement of Paduli (Colli sul Velino, RI) already identified in the eighties of the twentieth century. Surface research and a initial first excavation trench, highlight a continuity of the site’s life from the Middle Bronze Age to the early Iron Age. From the Late Bronze Age, household structures and craft areas have been based on timber platform. Between BF 3 and I Fe1 an important metallurgical production, formally integrated with the facies medio-tirrenica, seems to be the spy of phenomena of social complexity behind which nascent local elites could be hidden, capable of managing, or directly controlling, the mechanisms of acquisition of the raw material and production of artefacts.