Latial culture

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Latial culture was an early Iron Age archaeological culture of ancient Latium in central Italy, associated with the ancestors of the Latins and characterized by distinctive hut-urn burials and material traditions.

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Surface form Occurrences
Italic culture 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Iron Age culture
archaeological culture
prehistoric culture
associatedWith Latins NERFINISHED
ancestors of the Romans
characterizedBy biconical urns
bronze fibulae
cremation burials
domestic architecture imitating oval or rectangular huts
hut-urn burials
impasto pottery
inhumation burials in later phases
iron weapons
proto-urban development
small village settlements
social differentiation in grave goods
chronologyEnd c. 700 BC
chronologyStart c. 900 BC
country Italy
developsInto archaic Rome material culture
early Latin urban culture
ethnicGroupAssociated Latins NERFINISHED
evidenceType funerary archaeology
material culture analysis
settlement archaeology
follows Proto-Villanovan culture NERFINISHED
hasPhase Latial I NERFINISHED
Latial II
Latial III NERFINISHED
Latial IV NERFINISHED
influencedBy Etruscan culture NERFINISHED
Greek contacts in later phases
Villanovan culture NERFINISHED
languageFamilyAssociated Italic languages
locatedIn Latium NERFINISHED
central Italy
mainSite Alba Longa NERFINISHED
Castel di Decima NERFINISHED
Gabii NERFINISHED
Osteria dell’Osa necropolis NERFINISHED
Rome NERFINISHED
partOf Early Iron Age in Italy
precededBy Bronze Age cultures of Latium
timePeriod Early Iron Age NERFINISHED
usesBurialCustom hut-shaped cinerary urns placed in pits
urnfield-type cemeteries

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Hernici archaeologicalCulture Latial culture
Sicels culturalSphere Latial culture
this entity surface form: Italic culture