This volume focusses on the use and interpretation of the concepts of facies and culture in the framework of the study of Italian protohistory, in particular of the Bronze Age. For earlier phases of prehistory (Paleolithic, Neolithic, Copper Age), the use of the term “culture” (e.g. “Impressed Ware culture” or “Bell Beaker culture”) can be justified and there is no direct need to discuss it. Archaeological traces of human groups living in such a remote past are relatively scarce and do not enable us to identify social, political and ethnical entities, which produced, in a given time and space, a specific material culture. For opposite reasons, namely the overabundance of evidence, the concept of culture is useless for the central and later phases of the Iron Age. We know the territories, the names of the cities, and the ‘peoples’ of first millennium Italy (Reti, Veneti, Etruschi, Latini, etc.), thanks to coeval or subsequent written sources.
Questo volume è dedicato ad approfondire l’uso e l’interpretazione dei termini facies e cultura nell’ambito degli studi di protostoria italiana, relativi in particolare all’età del Bronzo. Per le fasi più antiche della preistoria (Paleolitico, Neolitico, età del Rame), l’uso del termine cultura (ad es. “cultura della Ceramica Impressa” o “cultura del Vaso Campaniforme”) è reiterato e non si pone direttamente il problema di metterne in discussione l’utilizzo. Le tracce archeologiche di gruppi umani così remoti nel tempo restano relativamente scarse e non consentono di identificare con chiarezza le entità sociali, politiche ed etniche che, in un dato tempo e spazio, hanno prodotto una certa cultura materiale. Per ragioni opposte, cioè per la sovrabbondanza di evidenze, il concetto di cultura è poco utile dalle fasi centrali dell’età del Ferro in poi. Conosciamo infatti i territori, i nomi delle città e i ‘popoli’ dell’Italia del primo millennio (Reti, Veneti, Etruschi, Latini, etc.), grazie alle fonti scritte ad essi contemporanee o successive.
Facies e culture nell’età del Bronzo italiana?
CAVAZZUTI C.
;CATTANI M.
2019
Abstract
This volume focusses on the use and interpretation of the concepts of facies and culture in the framework of the study of Italian protohistory, in particular of the Bronze Age. For earlier phases of prehistory (Paleolithic, Neolithic, Copper Age), the use of the term “culture” (e.g. “Impressed Ware culture” or “Bell Beaker culture”) can be justified and there is no direct need to discuss it. Archaeological traces of human groups living in such a remote past are relatively scarce and do not enable us to identify social, political and ethnical entities, which produced, in a given time and space, a specific material culture. For opposite reasons, namely the overabundance of evidence, the concept of culture is useless for the central and later phases of the Iron Age. We know the territories, the names of the cities, and the ‘peoples’ of first millennium Italy (Reti, Veneti, Etruschi, Latini, etc.), thanks to coeval or subsequent written sources.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
