Ausonian culture
The Ausonian culture is an archaeological culture of the Late and Late Bronze Age ( bronzo tardo and bronzo finale ) that was native to the Aeolian Islands and northeastern Sicily .
The Ausonian culture got its name from Luigi Bernabò Brea after the father of the mythical founder Liparos , Auson . The name Ausones was used by the Greeks of southern Italy to different indigenous groups and finally to all of southern Italy ( Ausonia ). The finds of the immigrated Ausones are accordingly very similar to the finds of the Sub-Apennine culture of southern Italy.
The Ausonian culture is divided into two sections:
- Ausonio A (or Ausonio I; beginning of the 13th to the 11th century BC)
- Ausonio B (or Ausonio II; 10th century BC)
In the Ausonio A phase , the Aeolian Islands were apparently taken by military means, the previous settlements of the Milazzese culture were no longer used or repopulated. Only at one exposed point, the Acropolis of Lipari, is there a continuity of settlement under the new Ausonian rulers. In the first phase, very little pottery from the Ausonian culture was found in northwestern Sicily. These cultural contacts intensified in the Ausonio B phase . It was the time when, as on the west coast of Calabria, there was a cultural upheaval towards the Protovillanova culture . These inhabitants of Calabria were probably also members of the Ausonian culture. In Sicily, influences of the Pantalica culture were increasingly absorbed in the course of development . Besides Lipari, Milazzo and Lentini are important sites of the later period . It is still unclear exactly when the culture lost its independence. Lipari was founded in the middle of the 9th century BC. Chr. Destroyed.
literature
- Christoph Kohler: Ausonian culture. In: The New Pauly (DNP). Volume 2, Metzler, Stuttgart 1997, ISBN 3-476-01472-X , Sp. 332 f.
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proof
- ↑ Diodorus 5,7,5-6; Dionysius of Halicarnassus : Roman antiquities 1,22,3