| LC control no. | sh 85143363 |
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| LC classification | GN780.2.V5 |
| Topical heading | Villanovan culture |
| Variant(s) | Civilization, Villanovan Proto-Etruscans Villanovan civilization Villanovans |
| See also | Iron age--Italy |
| Found in | Ox. classic. dict. (Villanovan culture takes its name from the Bolognese estate where in 1853 the first of many Iron Age cemeteries in modern provinces of Bologna, Faenza, Forli and Ravenna were found; term also applied to contemporary cemeteries south of the Apennines; culture characterized by cremation burials in biconical ossuaries with incised decoration; there were no such people as the "Villanovans"; the indigenous possessors of this culture in 9th and 8th cent. Etruria may be defined as Etruscans at the Iron Age stage of their ethnic formation) Larousse encyc. archaeology: p. 344 (Villanovan civilization) |
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