Villanovan civilization

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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↓ Ancient history
Historiography Greek, Roman, Chinese, Islamic

Late Bronze Age collapse

Ancient Near East (1200 BC – 500 BC)

India (1200 BC – 200 BC)

Europe (1200 BC – 1 BC)

China (600 BC – 200 BC)

Korea (400 BC – 400 AD)

Japan (100 BC – 300 AD)

Philippines (1000 BC – 200 AD)

Vietnam (1000 BC – 630 AD)

Sub-Saharan Africa (1000 BC – 800 AD)

Axial Age
Classical antiquity
Zhou dynasty
Vedic period
Ancient barangays
Alphabetic writing
Metallurgy

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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