Punta di Zambrone II

This monograph is the second in a series dedicated to the final publication of the excavations at the Bronze Age site of Punta di Zambrone on the Tyrrhenian coast of Calabria (southern Italy), conducted from 2011 to 2013 in an Italian-Austrian cooperation, and aims to define the cultural processes taking place in the southern Tyrrhenian region of Italy between the 13th and 12th centuries BC. It presents the conspicuous set of fragments of "impasto" pottery, dating almost completely to the Recent Bronze Age, found in the filling layers of the defensive ditch of Punta di Zambrone, integrated with a complete re-examination of the stratigraphy and the ceramic finds from the Ausonian I settlement on the acropolis of Lipari in the Aeolian Islands, found in the 50s and 60s of the last century. The large set of findings from those sites has been the object of a typological classification in order to provide a more precise definition of the local archaeological aspect, called "Ausonian", to pinpoint regional types and to define their chronology and duration. The typological study has also made it possible to highlight a series of distinctive features of the Subapennine cultural aspect of the area in question and to detect the extent and scale of contacts with other areas of Italy where the same cultural aspect is observed, as well as those with the Aegean.