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- Dictionaryterramare/ˌtɛrəˈmɑːri/
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- 1. an ammoniacal earthy deposit found in mounds in prehistoric lake dwellings or settlements, especially in Italy.
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Terramare, terramara, or terremare is a technology complex mainly of the central Po valley, in Emilia, Northern Italy, [1] dating to the Middle and Late Bronze Age c. 1700–1150 BC. [2][3] It takes its name from the "black earth" residue of settlement mounds. Terramare is from terra marna, "marl-earth", where marl is a lacustrine deposit.
Summary: The term Terramare means prehistoric settlements in the eastern Po plain, above all in the Emilia and the Veneto, which originated here during the Middle and the Late Bronze Age (1600-1250 BC)...
This culture was characterized by a curious world of terramare, habitations built on pilings and protected by a vallum, or defensive wall, which screened them from floods (in the flat countryside, seasonal rains were violent).
Terramara derives from the Emilian dialect expression (‘terra marna’) for the fertile black soil that first brought a distinctive type of settlement site to the notice of 19th-cent. Italian archaeologists.
The Southern European Bronze Age Terramare culture appeared in Early Italy from the early second millennium BC onwards, spanning much of northern Italy while the indigenous Apennine occupied the south and centre.
The Terramare. During the early decades of the 19th century, the word terramare was used to indicate deposits of organic material dug up from small mounds that were a regular feature of the landscape of the Po plain.
Oct 26, 2020 · The “Terramare” are banked and moated villages dating to the Middle and Recent Bronze ages (1600–1150 year BCE), located in the alluvial plain of the Po river, northern Italy. They are witness to a complex society, whose subsistence was based on intensive agriculture, pastoralism, and long-range trade (Barfield 1994 ).
