Phd in PHD SCHOOL OF ARCHAEOLOGY

Thesis title: Caere Villanoviana. Contributo alla conoscenza dell’età del Ferro ceretana attraverso la ricomposizione e l’analisi dei contesti indagati da R. Mengarelli in loc. “Cava della Pozzolana” (1910-1943)

The work aims to systematically reconstruct and analyse the necropolis of ‘Cava della Pozzolana’ in Cerveteri (RM), investigated by Raniero Mengarelli between 1910 and 1943 and never published in its entirety. Through the re-examination of archival documentation, the study of preserved materials and the recomposition of grave goods, the research aims to provide an updated picture of the Iron Age in Cerveteri, integrating the results of this review with what has already been published on other contemporary necropolises located in Sorbo and Laghetto. The objective is to attempt to reconstruct the social and cultural dynamics of the first communities that settled permanently on the plateau of the future Etruscan city of Caere, placing them in the broader context of the Villanovan period in southern Etruria and in the debate on the formation process of proto-urban centres.