The paper presents the funerary contexts of Spaccasasso Hill in the northern Uccellina Mountains (Alberese – Grosseto) in the Parco Regionale della Maremma (South Tuscany) where an interdisciplinary project conducted by the University of Siena is under way. The project involves the excavation and study of this Copper and Early Bronze Age burial site located in the a natural feature, cave and shelter. Evidence of open-air and underground complex burial activities has uncovered in the site, in an abandoned late Neolithic cinnabar mine. Spaccasasso human remains took part to the EPIC project analysis.
Volante, N. (2016). Spaccasasso Cave: a complex Copper age funerary contest on the Uccellina Mountains (Alberese – Grosseto).. In Biological and cultural heritage of central-southern italian population through 30 thousand years. EPIC (Eredità della Popolazione dell'Italia Centro-meridionale) (pp.93-104). Roma : UniverItalia.
Spaccasasso Cave: a complex Copper age funerary contest on the Uccellina Mountains (Alberese – Grosseto).
VOLANTE, NICOLETTA
2016-01-01
Abstract
The paper presents the funerary contexts of Spaccasasso Hill in the northern Uccellina Mountains (Alberese – Grosseto) in the Parco Regionale della Maremma (South Tuscany) where an interdisciplinary project conducted by the University of Siena is under way. The project involves the excavation and study of this Copper and Early Bronze Age burial site located in the a natural feature, cave and shelter. Evidence of open-air and underground complex burial activities has uncovered in the site, in an abandoned late Neolithic cinnabar mine. Spaccasasso human remains took part to the EPIC project analysis.
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https://hdl.handle.net/11365/1009057