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Two cemeteries dating to before and after the Avellino eruption of Mount Vesuvius have yielded exotic metal artefacts and also show non-indigenous funerary practices. A new study has analysed burial sites to find out how the Bronze Age inhabitants of the area around Mount Vesuvius interacted with other regions. Human mobility doesn't appear to have been a feature of these groups but exchange and trade does. Before Pompeii, rural southern Italy was not isolated from the outside world, but was heavily influenced by artefacts and customs from across Continental Europe, and possibly, even further afield than that.
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00:00 Introduction
01:02 The Gulf of Naples
02:11 The Bronze Age Cemeteries
04:15 Exotic Metals
05:47 Bioanthropological Analyses
08:28 Early Bronze Age Trade Networks
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De Falco, M., Aurino, P., Cavazzuti, C., Lucarelli, C., Canovaro, C., Lugli, F., Sperduti, A., Cecconi, V., Angelini, I., Artioli, G. and Cipriani, A., 2025. A multi-analytical approach to unveil Early Bronze Age population dynamics and metal exchange networks at the foot of Mount Vesuvius. Scientific Reports, 15(1), p.19492.
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Images and diagrams about the research into the two Bronze Age cemeteries, credit: De Falco, M., et al. in the paper referenced above
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Mount Vesuvius, credit: The Dronaut
Bell beaker artefacts from Spain
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Map of areas affected by the Mount Vesuvius eruption of 79 CE
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Hut excavation at Nola-Croce del Papa
Footprints from the Avellino eruption
Mount Vesuvius on thumbnail
Google Earth
Location map
Two cemeteries dating to before and after the Avellino eruption of Mount Vesuvius have yielded exotic metal artefacts and also show non-indigenous funerary practices. A new study has analysed burial sites to find out how the Bronze Age inhabitants of the area around Mount Vesuvius interacted with other regions. Human mobility doesn't appear to have been a feature of these groups but exchange and trade does. Before Pompeii, rural southern Italy was not isolated from the outside world, but was heavily influenced by artefacts and customs from across Continental Europe, and possibly, even further afield than that.
#ancient #archaeology #bronzeage
✨ IN THIS EPISODE
00:00 Introduction
01:02 The Gulf of Naples
02:11 The Bronze Age Cemeteries
04:15 Exotic Metals
05:47 Bioanthropological Analyses
08:28 Early Bronze Age Trade Networks
✨ JOIN MY CHANNEL
youtube.com/channel/UC0Hs5t0U6Uf993Tba22YmKA/join
✨ FOLLOW ME ON SOCIALS
BlueSky: @MegalithHunter.bsky.social
✨ REFERENCES
De Falco, M., Aurino, P., Cavazzuti, C., Lucarelli, C., Canovaro, C., Lugli, F., Sperduti, A., Cecconi, V., Angelini, I., Artioli, G. and Cipriani, A., 2025. A multi-analytical approach to unveil Early Bronze Age population dynamics and metal exchange networks at the foot of Mount Vesuvius. Scientific Reports, 15(1), p.19492.
✨ PHOTOGRAPH CREDITS
CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
Images and diagrams about the research into the two Bronze Age cemeteries, credit: De Falco, M., et al. in the paper referenced above
CC BY-SA 4.0 creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0
Mount Vesuvius, credit: The Dronaut
Bell beaker artefacts from Spain
CC BY-SA 3.0 creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0
Map of areas affected by the Mount Vesuvius eruption of 79 CE
Public domain
Hut excavation at Nola-Croce del Papa
Footprints from the Avellino eruption
Mount Vesuvius on thumbnail
Google Earth
Location map
