Hearth plate from the pile-dwelling site of Palù di Livenza

The Palù di Livenza wetland lies at the foot of the Cansiglio plateau in the Pordenone area in north-east Italy. It preserves a Neolithic pile-dwelling settlement. Thanks to the richness of deposits, Palù di Livenza is inscribed on the World Heritage List of UNESCO in the transnational serial proper...

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Main Authors: Giovanni Tasca, Michele Bassetti, Nicola Degasperi, Sergio Salvador, Roberto Micheli
Format: Article
Language:Italian
Published: University of Bologna 2019-12-01
Series:IpoTESI di Preistoria
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Online Access:https://ipotesidipreistoria.unibo.it/article/view/10255
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Summary:The Palù di Livenza wetland lies at the foot of the Cansiglio plateau in the Pordenone area in north-east Italy. It preserves a Neolithic pile-dwelling settlement. Thanks to the richness of deposits, Palù di Livenza is inscribed on the World Heritage List of UNESCO in the transnational serial property ‟Prehistoric pile-dwellings around the Alps” together with other 18 northern Italian localities. The latest investigations, carried out at the Sector 3 since 2013, have revealed a well-preserved stratigraphic sequence with three main phases of pile-dwellings ranging between the second half of the 5th and the first half of the 4th millennium cal BC. The paper presents the remains of a combustion feature, probably a hearth plaster plate, found during the last excavations campaigns in the abandonment levels attributed to the Late Neolithic phase.
ISSN:1974-7985