Gli Enotri fra epilogo dell’età del Bronzo e primordi dell’età del Ferro nella Sibaritide

Abstract

With the aim of constructing a material cultural framework for the Sibaritide basin (northern Calabria, Italy) between
the end of the Bronze Age and the beginning of the Iron Age, the Groningen Institute of Archeology is conducting
systematic investigations at three sites characterized by the coexistence of local pottery productions and ceramic classes
that refer to Aegean productions: Monte San Nicola at Civita, Damale (site RB228) at Cerchiara di Calabria, and
Timpone delle Fave at Frascineto. These sites, identified during the Raganello Archaeological Project field surveys,
are located on the foothill belt between the Sibari plain and the mountainous hinterland. The material culture that
is emerging from the ongoing excavations shows cultural traits relating to mechanisms of sharing, assimilation and
hybridization of Aegean traditions by local groups. Our analysis of this cultural interaction intends to illustrate how
Oenotrian cultural characteristics were maintained or lost, thus capturing the results of the first dynamics of interaction
that were to give rise to the fully developed Oenotrian society of subsequent centuries.