Fabrics and archaeological facies in Northern Italy. An integrated approach to technological and stylistic choices in Bronze Age pottery production
A tradition of pottery production is well-attested in northern and central Italy during the Middle and Recent
Bronze Ages (17–12th century BCE). In order to characterise that pottery production, this paper presents a synthesis
of available archaeometrical data. Petrographic, mineralogical (X-ray powder diffraction; XRPD) and
chemical analyses (X-ray fluorescence spectroscopy; XRF) were compiled from Emilia, Romagna, southern Veneto
and northern Tuscany. Four hundred vessels from 21 sites were analysed, of which 147 are presented here for