The Polada culture (14th-13th century BCE) is the name for a culture of the ancient Bronze Age which spreads throughout northern Italy and is characterized by settlements on pile-dwellings.The name derives from the same name locality in the territory of Lonato del Garda where the first findings attributed to this culture were discovered in the years between 1870 and 1875 as a result of intense activities of reclamation in a peat bog; the carbon dating of the finds places them between the 14th and 13th century BCE (from c. 1380 to c. 1270 BCE).
