Canegrate culture
Culture | Defunct
1300 BCE to 910 BCE
The Canegrate culture is a civilization of Prehistoric Italy which develops from the recent Bronze Age (13th century BC) until the Iron Age, in the Pianura Padana of what are now western Lombardy, eastern Piedmont and Canton Ticino.
The name comes from the locality of Canegrate in Lombardy, south of Legnano and 25 km.
north of Milan, where important archaeological findings (approximately fifty tombs with ceramics and metallic objects) were discovered in the 20th century.
It is one of the richer archeological sites of Northern Italy.
First findings were excavated around 1926 in the area of Rione Santa Colomba, and systematic excavation occurred between March 1953 and autumn 1956.
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The Canegrate culture develops from the mid-Bronze Age (thirteenth century BCE) until the Iron Age in the Pianura Padana, in what is now western Lombardy, eastern Piedmont and Ticino.
It takes its name from the township of Canegrate where, in the twentieth century, some fifty tombs with ceramics and metal objects are found.
It represents the first migratory wave of the proto-Celtic population from the northwest part of the Alps that, through the Alpine passes, had already penetrated and settled in the western Po valley between Lake Maggiore and Lake Como (Scamozzina culture).
They bring a new funerary practice—cremation—that supplants inhumation.
Canegrate terracotta is very similar to that known from the same period north to the Alps (Provence, Savoy, Isère, Valais, the area of Rhine-Switzerland-eastern France).
The members of the culture have been described as a warrior population who had descended to Pianura Padana from the Swiss Alps passes and the Ticino.
It takes its name from the township of Canegrate where, in the twentieth century, some fifty tombs with ceramics and metal objects are found.
It represents the first migratory wave of the proto-Celtic population from the northwest part of the Alps that, through the Alpine passes, had already penetrated and settled in the western Po valley between Lake Maggiore and Lake Como (Scamozzina culture).
They bring a new funerary practice—cremation—that supplants inhumation.
Canegrate terracotta is very similar to that known from the same period north to the Alps (Provence, Savoy, Isère, Valais, the area of Rhine-Switzerland-eastern France).
The members of the culture have been described as a warrior population who had descended to Pianura Padana from the Swiss Alps passes and the Ticino.