Buccino: The Early Bronze Age Village of Tufariello

Abstract

The excavation of the Early Bronze Age village at Tufariello (Buccinno) in southern Italy represents a major archaeological advance in a little-known period of Italian prehistory in this region. The emphasis of the following report is in the integration of archaeological material, especially the statistical study of abundant pottery material from three distinct stratigraphic phases of the site, and the discussion of the unexpected rectangularly planned buildings of the site, with reports on evidence of flora and fauna. The result is the first synthetic view of the life of a southern Italian community of the end of the third millennium B.C.

The excavation has been the most recent phase of the exploration of this area undertaken since 1968 by Brown University in collaboration with the Superintendency of Antiquities of Salerno. This report is made up of the following sections.

Introduction and Stratigraphy by R. Ross Holloway

Architecture by Ned P. Nabers

Pottery by Susan Snow Lukesh

Stock Economy by Graeme Barker

Stone and Bone Objects by Nicholas B. Hartmann

Pottery Manufacture by Ethel R. Eaton

Metal Tools by Hugh McKerrell and Ethel R. Eaton

Vegetal Remains by William LaCroix Phippen

Preliminary Geological Note by Giuseppe Leuci