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13 July, 2013
The presence of archaeological remains in the area of Palù di Livenza was already reported in the first half of the nineteenth century, but the archaeological importance of the site was confirmed only in the 60s of last century, when it was dug a drainage canal in the center northern part of the basin which brought to light the...
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12 June, 2013
The techniques of stratigraphic excavation reconstruct the sequence of events that led to the formation of an archaeological deposit. The data collected provide, however, a relative dating which indicates only the order (before or after) in which the events occurred in the past...
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11 June, 2013
Dendrochronology is the most reliable method for dating prehistoric settlements in the wet area, because it is based on the measurement of the growth rings of trees...
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10 June, 2013
The manufacture of vessels is a practice used by prehistoric farmers, but we must not forget that the ceramic was just one of the many materials used to make containers in the past. However, the variety of the forms of the vessels and the long duration of this material make the ceramic very suitable for purposes of classification and...
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9 June, 2013
The exceptional environmental conditions of the deposits and the high level of conservation of the wooden remains allowed us to find some tools and wood containers that are usually rare to find in other Neolithic sites in Italian wetland. The richest collections of objects of this type were found, in fact , in some villages of the Bronze...