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Il libro presenta i risultati delle campagne di ricerca dirette dagli autori e consiste nella pubblicazione dei risultati dei loro scavi del 1988 e 1989 una grotta dell'Italia centrale, la Grotta Vittorio Vecchi (Sezze, LT).
La grotta fu scoperta dagli speleologi e risulto essere stata utilizzata come necropoli per piu di 40 membri di una comunita insediata nell'area e contenere materiale archeologico di rilevanza culturale e cronologica.
Lo studio della ceramica e degli oggetti in bronzo (il focus del volume) ha permesso agli autori di datare l'utilizzazione della grotta tra l'antica e la media eta del bronzo (all'incirca la prima meta del secondo millennio a.C.), un dato che va d'accordo con il piu ampio contesto dell'utilizzazione funeraria e cultuale delle grotte.
This book presents the results of field research campaigns led by the authors, and consists in a publication of the results of their 1988-1989 excavations in a cave in Central Italy, the Grotta Vittorio Vecchi (Sezze, LT).
The cave, discovered by speleologists, turned out to have been used as the burial site for more than 40 members of a community living in the area, and to contain archaeological material of both cultural and chronological relevance.
Study of the pottery and metal objects found (which form the focus of this volume) allowed the authors to date the utilisation of the cave to between the Early and Middle Bronze Age (that is, around the first half of the second millennium BC): a datum that agrees with the broader framework of the funerary and cultural use of caves in protohistoric central Italy.
