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Villanova Archæol.|vɪləˈnəʊvə| The name of a hamlet near Bologna, Italy, where archæological finds were made, used attrib. to designate an Italian culture of the early Iron Age.
1901W. Ridgeway Early Age Greece I. ii. 237 After the Terramare came the Early Iron Age, usually termed the Villanova period by the Italian archaeologists, from the discovery of a large number of its characteristic remains at Villanova near Bologna. 1910Encycl. Brit. V. 721/2 The next period..is known as the ‘Villanova’ period,..or as the period of pit-tombs (a pozzo), from the form of the graves in which the pottery has been found. |