Villanova culture

Villanovan culture

Geographical range	Europe
Period	Early Iron Age
Dates	c. 1100 BC – 700 BC
Preceded by	Proto-Villanovan culture
Followed by	Etruscan civilization

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Bronze Age collapse (1200 – 1150 BC) Ancient Near East (1200 – 550 BC) Anatolia, Caucasus, Levant Aegean (1190 – 700 BC): Late Helladic IIIC Protogeometric period Geometric period Italy (1100 – 700 BC) Balkans (1100 BC – 150 AD) Eastern Europe (900 – 650 BC) Central Europe (800 – 50 BC) Hallstatt C, La Tène C Great Britain (800 BC – 100 AD) Northern Europe (500 BC – 800 AD) South Asia (1200 – 200 BC) Painted Grey Ware Northern Black Polished Ware China (500 – 200 BC) Korea (300 BC – 300 AD) Japan (100 BC – 300 AD) Iron metallurgy in Africa
Iron Age metallurgy Ancient iron production
↓ Ancient history Mediterranean, Greater Persia, South Asia, China
Historiography Greek, Roman, Chinese, Medieval

Bronze Age collapse (1200 – 1150 BC)

Ancient Near East (1200 – 550 BC)

Aegean (1190 – 700 BC):

Italy (1100 – 700 BC)

Balkans (1100 BC – 150 AD)

Eastern Europe (900 – 650 BC)

Central Europe (800 – 50 BC)

Great Britain (800 BC – 100 AD)

Northern Europe (500 BC – 800 AD)

South Asia (1200 – 200 BC)

China (500 – 200 BC)

Korea (300 BC – 300 AD)

Japan (100 BC – 300 AD)

Iron metallurgy in Africa

Iron Age metallurgy
Ancient iron production

The Villanovan culture was the earliest Iron Age culture of central and northern Italy, abruptly following the Bronze Age Terramare culture and giving way in the 7th century BC to an increasingly orientalizing culture influenced by Greek traders, which was followed without a severe break by the Etruscan civilization. The Villanovan culture and people branched from the Urnfield culture of Central Europe. The Villanovans introduced iron-working to the Italian peninsula; they practiced cremation and buried the ashes of their dead in pottery urns of distinctive double-cone shape.

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