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Polada culture
| Geographical range | Northern Italy |
|---|---|
| Period | Bronze Age |
| Dates | c. 2200 — 1500 BCE |
| Major sites | Lavagnone, Ledro |
| Preceded by | Bell Beaker culture, Remedello culture |
| Followed by | Terramare culture, Facies of the pile dwellings and of the dammed settlements |
| Bronze Age |
The Polada culture (22nd to 16th centuries BCE) is the name for a culture of the ancient Bronze Age which spread primarily in the territory of modern-day Lombardy, Veneto and Trentino, characterized by settlements on pile-dwellings.
The name derives from the same locality in the territory of Lonato del Garda in Lombardy where the first findings attributed to this culture were discovered in the years between 1870 and 1875 as a result of intense activities of reclamation in a peat bog; the dating of carbon-14 on the finds place them between c. 1380 BCE and c. 1270 BCE.[1] Other major sites are found in the area between Mantua, the Lake Garda and the Lake of Pusiano.
It was succeeded in the Middle Bronze Age by the facies of the pile dwellings and of the dammed settlements and the Terramare culture.
- ^ Coles & Harding (1979: 202)
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