Nuovi dati sulla necropoli dell'età del Ferro di Poggio e Piano delle Granate a Populonia (LI)

From 2001 to 2015, a team from the «Sapienza» University of Rome worked on an organic research project in the Baratti Gulf area in Populonia. Excavations investigated not only the habitats of Poggio del Telegrafo, but also the western necropolis of Poggio and Piano delle Granate where, in particular, thanks in part to various emergency operations to recover material, it proved possible to document the earliest sets of funerary objects in the area. At the same time, in collaboration with SABAP for the Provinces of Pisa and Livorno, work began on systematic review of the excavations made by Antonio Minto in the first decades of the 20th century. This research has yielded new and important information on the formation phase of the Etruscan city, as well as the community’s local characteristics and its inter-relations with other Mediterranean cultures at the beginning of the first millennium AD.