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Accepted Paper:

Metallurgical craft in 14th-12th BC Bronze Age villages In Northern Italy  
Paola A.E. Bianchi (Museo Archeologico Nazionale di Parma - Italy)

Paper short abstract:

The paper aims to understand relation between people and metallurgical production and the role of craftspeople in Bronze Age village society in Northern Italy. It focuses mainly on the organization of craft activities in recently discovered settlement in the Po Plain offering a perspective of relations of households, other craft areas (e.g. for textile production).

Paper long abstract:

In Northern Italy, starting from Middle Bronze Age to Later Bronze Age, metallurgy takes place inside villages. Current research confirms some aspects of production: metal-work increases due the Middle Bronze Age period to Later Bronze Age in number and typologies.

Current discoveries give information about the technology of metal objects production and especially about the space organization of craft activities within the villages, with substantial differences among those; this suggests a new perspective in the interpretation and role of metallurgists and the organization of crafts. This paper describers the emergency of new characteristics in metal production and try to understand the role of this craft.

Panel S27
Making the Bronze Age: craft and craftspeople 2500-800BC
  Session 1